Type of College

Central University

Established

1969

Affiliation

Central University, New Delhi

About Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

On April 21, 1969, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was established by an Act of Parliament called the Jawaharlal Nehru University Act, 1966.

Spread over 1019 acres of land in South Delhi, the JNU has a beautiful green campus and has been ranked first among top five universities in India by Ministry Of Human Resources from last two-three years.

It was re-accredited with the highest grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with "A++" Grade - (CGPA Score 3.91 on a 4 Point Scale in 2nd Cycle) on October 30, 2017. The university was recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under Act, 1956 and the UGC has granted University with Potential for Excellence status to the JNU.

Jawaharlal Nehru University is the foremost university in India, and a world-renowned centre for teaching and research. Ranked number one in India by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with a Grade Point of 3.91 (on a scale of 4), JNU was ranked no 3 among all universities in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework, Government of India, in 2016 and no 2 in 2017. JNU also received the Best University Award from the President of India in 2017.

Still a young university, established by an act of Parliament in 1966, the strength, energy, and reputation of Jawaharlal Nehru University result from the vision that ideas are a field for adventure, experimentation and unceasing quest, and that diversity of opinions are the basis for intellectual exploration. JNU is the place for the intellectually restless, the insatiably curious, and the mentally rigorous, giving them the space to grow amidst the calmness of an oasis, a green lung within the hustle and bustle and the crowds of the capital city of India.

Coming into being in 1969, three years after its establishment by Parliament, JNU brought frontier disciplines and newer perspectives for old disciplines to the Indian university system.

The excellent teacher-student ratio at 1:10, the mode of instruction which encourages students to explore their own creativity instead of reproducing received knowledge, and of exclusively internal evaluation, were also new to the Indian academic landscape and have stood the test of time. The very Nehruvian objectives embedded in the founding of the University – ‘national integration, social justice, secularism, the democratic way of life, international understanding and a scientific approach to the problems of society’, had built into them constant and energetic endeavour to renew knowledge through self- questioning.

The educational philosophy of the university gets translated into its somewhat unorthodox academic structure. Grounded in a faith in the unity of knowledge, JNU has sought to avoid the narrowly conceived Department structure of conventional universities, preferring instead to bring allied disciplines within a few broad and inclusive entities called Schools, under whose interactive ambit are placed the more specialized units, called Centres, There are also Special Centres that are outside even the broad structures of School but may grow further. Then there are Research Clusters that cut across Schools and Centres as well as some programmes, which are placed within specific schools but are built on the interests of faculty across the university. At present there are ten Schools and four Special Centres in the University.

JNU was the first to offer courses in foreign languges in an integrated five year MA programme. At the Master’s level, where most of the Schools begin their academic programme, training is largely oriented towards single disciplines (although all M.A. students are encouraged to do a few courses outside their subject) but at the research level the disciplinary boundaries become more permeable. Work in overlapping or borderline areas – e.g., between environment and literary studies, economics and science, sociology and aesthetics, or linguistics and biology – is not uncommon among the Ph.

D. students of JNU. Not only are the research scholars encouraged to cross the invisible walls around disciplines, the relationship between the academia and the world outside also remains negotiable, often resulting in mutually beneficial collaboration in areas that form crossroads for developing an understanding of society, culture and science.

As in the academic structure, so in its teaching process and evaluation pattern, JNU was one of the first in India to depart from the well- trodden path by emphasizing the continuity of the learning process rather than isolatiing the final exam as the only tool of measuring achievement. Grading is done throughout the semester, ensuring students’ participation and involvement in curricular work, and re-animating the collaborative process of generating knowledge in the class room. Even at the M.A. level, students are encouraged to carry out independent research projects in limited areas which result in short term paper.

Apart from its regular faculty, JNU has over the years established specially designated ‘Chairs’ – Rajiv Gandhi Chair, Appadorai Chair, Nelson Mandela Chair, Dr. Ambedkar Chair, RBI Chair, SBI Chair, Sukhomay Chakravarty Chair, Environmental Law Chair, Greek Chair, Tamil Chair, and Kannada Chair.

Many members of faculty and research scholars have won prestigious national and international awards for their academic work. A number of academic associations are headed by our faculty. Our expertise is highly sought after by the Government and many members of our faculty have served the Government of India in various capacities including as Ambassadors/ High Commissioners, and members of the important bodies like the Planning Commission. Many of our faculty members have also served and serve as Vice Chancellors of other universities.

The Univrsity brings out four research journals which have high academic visibility in India and abroad.

These are Studies in History, International Studies, JSL (the Journal of the School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies) and Hispanic Horizons. Several members of the JNU faculty also edit national and international journals besides the above four.

Jawaharlal Nehru University has collaborated with universities across the world in research projects, conferences, and publications. It has many active MoUs with international and national universities and exvhanges faculty and students with them regularly. We also host the Indian segment of some international degree programmes.

Several academic Centres of the university have been declared by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to be ‘Centres of Excellence’. These are the Centre for Historical Studies, the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, the Centre for Political Studies, the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, and Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, all in the School of Social Sciences. In addition, three Science Schools – School of Physical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Environmental Sciences – have also received UGC’s recognition as Centres for Excellence. The Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literatuer & Culture Studies, has also been identified for Departmental Research Support under the Special Assistance Programme of the UGC. JNU itself has been given the status of the ‘University of Excellence’ by the UGC.

VISION

A university stands for transformation. JNU exemplifies the positive aspects of human habitation and intervention. Built on the rugged barren terrain of the Aravali hill range, where the 1000 acre campus is housed, the university has turned into a lush green estate of envy, a landscape bursting into the colours of bougainvilleas and amaltas, mangoes and jamun (Indian blackberry), and is the home of peacocks and nilgais.

JNU is a birdwatcher’s paradise, parts of it now hosting almost dense forests.

JNU campus is a microcosm of the Indian nation, drawing students from every nook and corner of the country and from every group and stratum of society. To make sure that this is so, annual admission tests are simultaneously held at centres in various parts of the country (and at one centre abroad in Kathmandu, Nepal) and special care is taken to draw students from the underprivileged castes and ethnic groups. International students form nearly 15% per cent of the annual intake and as of now come from approx. 30 - 35 countries across the continents.

Most of the faculty, staff, and students of the university reside on campus. Hostels for students are built close to faculty residences in order to facilitate close interaction and to encourage the feeling of belonging to a large academic family. The hostels and faculty houses are organized in four clusters, named after the four directions. Each of the hostels is named after a river belonging to the region.

Towering over all other buildings in the Academic Complex is the nine- storey University Library, the hub of student life on campus. The JNU Library is among the first batch of universities to be chosen as a beneficiary of the UGC- INFONET- INFLIBNET consortium of Electronic journals because of the excellent infrastructure facilities in place at JNU. The Archives on Contemporary History, located in the Library has in its holdings a very large collection of source material on the Left Movement in India.

The Human Resources Development Centre (formerly Academic Staff College), funded by the UGC and located in JNU, serves other universities in the country by organizing in-service refresher training for college teachers from different parts of India.

Among the other facilities available in JNU are two sophisticated instrumentation centres – The Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility (AIRF) and the University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC) – which are engaged in various in-house R & D activities. The Language Lab Complex, one of the best of its kind in Asia is equipped with video and audio facilities including a studio, and is justly proud of its rich software library.

Student life on JNU Campus has its own colours and contours of uniqueness. The university is perceived as a training ground for intellectual politicians, and for a meaningful life in the Indian bureaucracy, as much as the beginning of a life in research and academics. Serious and sometimes high decibel disputes about the validity of paradigmatic premises or cultural subtexts of a particular scientific or economic thesis often spill over from the class and hostel rooms onto the middle of the campus roads, at times causing traffic bottlenecks. Happily, these have never caused a road accident. JNU is the only university in India where the annual Students Union elections are conducted entirely by students, Fierce poster and cartoon wars, verbal duels and competitive yet peaceful group meetings are a viewers’ delight during the elections, In fact student life is peppered by after dinner speeches and discussions on every pressing contemporary issue. JNU is also a place for late night snacks and an active cultural life, with clubs that encourage a wide range of activities from dramatics to mountaineering.

We can say proudly that Jawaharlal Nehru University is a unique university not just in India but the world with its diversity, its commitment to social justice and intellectual attainment.

MISSION

The mission of the University is social contribution through education and learning, using advanced research tools and methodologies at the highest levels of excellence matching international standards.

Towards this mission, JNU will strive to:

Synergize the potential of JNU faculties and their innovative ideas and efforts to achieve the highest degree of academic excellence.

Keep the University at the forefront by initiating innovative, fundamental and inter/multi/trans-disciplinary courses that meet the needs of the society by contributing to new research evidences and also by preparing new generation of scientists to address the challenges faced by the society.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was established on April 21, 1969, by an Act of Parliament called the Jawaharlal Nehru University Act, 1966. It was recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under Act, 1956.

The excellent teacher-student ratio of 1:10

Superior academic curriculum

Several UGC certified Centres of Excellence

Vast infrastructure with all the essential facilities

Well equipped in campus hostel

Levels of study
Engineering
Streams Mode Duration Eligibilty
Master of Technology Full Time 2 Years B.E / B.Tech
M.Phil
Streams Mode Duration Eligibilty
Master of Philosophy Full Time 1 Year / 2 Years Bachelor's degree
Science
Streams Mode Duration Eligibilty
Master of Computer Application Full Time 3 Years BCA
Master of Science Full Time 2 Years Bachelor's Degree
Ph.D
Streams Mode Duration Eligibilty
Doctor of Philosophy Full Time 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 Years Master's Degree / M.Phil.
Arts
Streams Mode Duration Eligibilty
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Full Time 3 Years 10+2
Master of Arts Full Time 2 Years Bachelor's Degree
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  • Computer Lab
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  • Anti Ragging
  • Women Cell
  • Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee
  • Campus Security(24x7)
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