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NEW MILLENNIUM PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES (EAST)

Estb. Prime focus Students Remarks
Assam Don Bosco 2008 Multidisciplinary 2,300 + Assam #1
University, Guwahati (Technology, Commerce & Mgmt.)
Royal Global 2013 Multidisciplinary (Applied Sciences, Business, 500 Assam #2
University, Guwahati Commerce, Media, Design, Fashion)
Kalinga Institute of 2004 Multidisciplinary (Engineering, Science, Law, 27,000 Odisha #2
Industrial Technology, Medicine, Film and Media)
Bhubaneswar
Centurion University 2010 Multidisciplinary (Engineering 20,000 Odisha #3
of Technology & Science, Management, Applied Science)
Management,
Bhubaneswar
JIS University, Kolkata 2014 Multidisciplinary (Agricultural Science, Education, 2,300 West Bengal #2
Engineering, Hospitality, Juridical Science,
Management, Pharmacy, Sciences)
Adamas University 2014 Multidisciplinary (Engineering & Tech, Business, 3,762 West Bengal #3
Kolkata Law, Applied Science, Life Sciences & Biotech)
Martin Luther Christian 2005 Multidisciplinary (Allied Health Sciences, 4,000 Meghalaya #1
University, Shillong IT, Music, Tourism & Travel Management)
Sikkim Manipal University, 1995 Multidisciplinary (Medicine, Nursing, 3,200 Sikkim #1
Gangtok Humanities, Social Sciences, Biotechnology
* EW India Higher Education Rankings2022-23

by the London-based Quacquarelli health and five online degree pro-
Symonds (QS). Over the past decade, grammes with Coursera and Upgrad,
the number of students has grown to we are stepping up our research activ-
10,000 mentored by 1,000 faculty, ity — during the pandemic, our faculty
including 115 highly-qualified profes- wrote a record 800 papers cited in the
sors drawn from 48 countries. More- globally respected Scopus Index. Now
over the number of schools — law, we are focused on designing new age
humanities, business management, interdisciplinary degree programmes
international relations among others while shifting our international aca-
— under the JGU umbrella has mul- demic collaborations focus from the
tiplied to 12 providing 50 undergrad West to universities in Asia, Africa,
and postgrad degree programmes the Middle East and Latin America,”
even as this young private university says Raj Kumar.
has signed academic exchange and re- Undoubtedly following presenta-
search collaboration agreements with tion of NEP 2020 to Parliament and
375 universities in 67 countries world- the nation in July 2020, there is a
wide. Evidently, the varsity’s manage- Raj Kumar: enabling policy charter discernible new buzz in Indian edu-
ment takes the descriptive ‘global’ in- cation — especially in higher educa-
corporated into its title, seriously. future. “NEP 2020 is an enabling tion. In quick time dozens of contem-
Dr. (Prof.) C. Raj Kumar, a policy charter which has conferred porary private universities enabled
polymath alum of Delhi, Oxford and real autonomy on HEIs — especially by state government legislation and
Harvard universities and founding universities designated institutions of led by brilliant academics with excel-
vice chancellor who has catapulted eminence by the Central government lent project management and leader-
JGU into a globally respected law — by removing hurdles and impedi- ship skills are generating overdue stir
and liberal arts university in record ments. After recently introducing a within the shady bowers of Indian
time, is “totally bullish” about the new Masters programme in public academia. Even as private liberal arts

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