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added. Moreover, BCU has signed
collaboration agreements with
several foreign universities including
Birmingham City and Wolverhamp-
ton, UK. Our entry into the Top 10 is
proof of BCU’s rapid evolution into
a progressive 21st century multi-
disciplinary university,” says Prof.
Lingaraja Gandhi, Vice Chan-
cellor of BCU. An alum of Mysore
University with 39 years of teaching,
research and administrative experi-
ence including stints as registrar of
Karnataka State Open and Mysore
universities, Dr. Gandhi was ap-
pointed VC in 2021.
The enthusiasm for institutional
reform and upgradation discernible
Bangalore City University's Lingaraja Gandhi (centre): positive trifurcation fallout in usually somnolent government
universities is a welcome
our dedicated curriculum design 400 to 5,000 students; we have development. Because aggregate
and development cell continuously introduced several new-age degree enrolment in Central and state
upgrades curriculums to national programmes and skill development government universities estimated
and international standards,” says courses, and upgraded campus at 32 million students far exceeds
Ravi, an alum of Bharathidasan and infrastructure and facilities. The enrolments in India’s 455 private
Anna universities who signed up introduction of study programmes universities.
with AUK in 1995 as lecturer, and in emerging disciplines such as Therefore, attainment of the
was appointed as VC in 2022. Sited data science, artificial intelligence, country’s 2047 Viksit Bharat and
on a 435-acre campus in Karaikudi business analytics has boosted $30 trillion GDP goals are heav-
(80 km from Madurai), AUK has 45 student enrolment. There is a lot of ily dependent upon vertiginous
affiliated colleges in the districts of development activity within BCU. improvement of teaching-learning
Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram Under our Rs.168-crore campus and research standards in India’s
with an aggregate enrolment of development plan, new classrooms, government universities and 45,000
120,000 students. labs and sports facilities have been affiliated colleges.
Yet the highlight of the 2025-
26 EW league table of India’s best Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus vista
government multidisciplinary
universities is the great leap forward
in the public esteem of Bangalore
City University (BCU), from #17
in 2024-25 into the Top 10 with
high scores under the parameters of
faculty competence, infrastructure
and range/diversity of programmes.
Established in 2017 after trifurca-
tion of Bangalore University, BCU
has over 240 colleges in Karnataka,
including the top-ranked Mount
Carmel and St. Joseph’s colleges,
affiliated with it.
“This is great news and acknowl-
edgement of the great strides and
progress BCU has made over the
past five years. Since trifurcation,
our enrolment has grown from

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