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India’s best government multi-

disciplinary universities

Disaggregation of public
universities into subject
domain categories has
resulted in several varsities
substantially improving
their national ranking in
EWIHER 2022-23

igher education institutions
offering multidisciplinary
Hprogrammes are popular
with students as they provide a wide
range of study programmes across
numerous faculties including arts,
humanities, science, commerce,
management, engineering and tech- Mumbai University SoBo campus: institutional pride. Inset: Dr. Ravindra Kulkarni
nology, etc, and offer opportunity for
inter-disciplinary study. Therefore, abad to #4 (#21) and Banaras of society. The university has five
it’s not surprising that the lengthiest Hindu University to #5 (#15). campuses, 839 affiliated colleges,
league table in EWIHER 2022-23 Dr. Ravindra Kulkarni, pro 54 teaching departments and offers
is of government multidisciplinary vice chancellor of University over 500 undergrad and post-
universities. of Mumbai (UoM), one of the graduate programmes to over 8 lakh
The newly introduced league country’s three oldest universities students. Moreover, we are pioneers
table of publicly-funded multidisci- established in 1857, is delighted that in offering career and skill-based
plinary varsities is headed by Delhi UoM is ranked India #1 in the newly education and have strong indus-
University (DU) and University classified league table of govern- try connect programmes, which
of Mumbai (UoM), jointly ranked ment multidisciplinary universities, explains our high scores for industry
#1 — both of whom have got huge with top scores on the important interface and placements. Now with
promotions since last year. DU was parameters of industry interface and the implementation of NEP 2020,
ranked #4 and UoM #10 respectively placements. we are gearing up to introduce
in the undivided government univer- “It’s a matter of pride that the an Academic Bank of Credits and
sities league table of 2021-22. University of Mumbai, one of the designing multidisciplinary degree
Similarly, disaggregation of pub- country’s oldest citadels of learning programmes with multiple entry
lic universities into subject domain with a legacy of over 165 years of and exit options,” says Kulkarni, an
categories has resulted in several academic excellence, is ranked In- alumnus of the Institute of Chemi-
varsities substantially improving dia’s #1 multidisciplinary university. cal Technology, Mumbai (ICT)
their national ranking. Jawaharlal Recently, we were accredited with and RMT University, Nagpur, and
Nehru University, Delhi, in the the highest A++ grade by NAAC. former professor at ICT, who was
news recently for appointing its first Our institutional distinctiveness is appointed pro vice chancellor of
woman vice chancellor, has been providing access to world-class pro- UoM in 2018.
promoted to #2 (#3) followed by grammes across several disciplines Similarly, Dr. Suranjan Das,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata in science, management, commerce, vice chancellor of the state govern-
to #3 (#9), University of Hyder- and arts to students from all sections ment-managed Jadavpur Univer-

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