Reputation & offerings

With a sprawling campus of nearly 1600 acres (6 km²) and buildings of majestic beauty and architectural splendor, Osmania University is perhaps the symbol of the largest higher education system in the Country. With its strong reputation, the University has always attracted students from all acorss the nation as well as from various other countries. It is the home to nearly 300,000 students pursuing their higher studies in its Campus, Constituent, affiliated Colleges and District Centres. Its faculty and staff number nearly 5000. It is a multi-faculty and multidisciplinary university, offering rich and varied courses in the fields of Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Engineering,Medicine, Technology, Commerce and Business Management, Information Technology and Oriental Languages. The University’s strategic planning, teaching-and-learning policies and research direction have always emphasized respect for the concerns of the society and the need to address the issues that challenge it.

The Department of Business Management, Osmania University has been offering an MBA program since 1964. This program has been consistently ranked one of the best MBA programs in India. Only 60 students from over 100,000 applicants make it into this MBA program through a competitive exam.

The Department of Geography is the oldest and largest geography department in south India. Established in 1942, it has a substantial infrastructure with high-tech labs for geography and geoinformatics, which include the Image Processing lab, Photogrammetry lab and the Geoinformatics lab. It is matchless in terms of infrastructure among the geography departments in India.It has a hundred computer systems spead over five labs, ARC INFO software - multiple single user and multiple user licences, ERDAS Imagine and LIECA photogrammetry suite - again multiple user licences, Map info and other softwares, an automated office and networked labs. It also has some of India's well-known geographers on its faculty. It offers masters and doctorate degrees in both geography and geoinformatics. Prof. Manzoor Alam, the department head, gave the initial boost to this department by getting substantial funding from the University Grants Commission for various facets of development of this department. Prof. Kalpana Markandey gave the department a second boost, after helping to bring a grant of one crore from the Department of Science and Technology and the University Grants Commission for the development of labs and new courses.

The College of Engineering (OUCE), established in 1929, offers B.E, M.E and Ph.D programs in various streams. It is an autonomous college and arguably the best engineering college in Andhra Pradesh. An affiliation with the IIT is suggested due to its achievements and excellent academic pursuits.

In the year 2001, Osmania University had the distinction of being awarded the five-star status by the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission, part of the Government of India.

List of Engineering Colleges Affiliated with Osmania University

Osmania University College of Engineering. (estd. 1929) ([www.uceou.edu])
OUCE

Osmania University College of Technology(OUCT)
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology.(estd. 1979)
Vasavi College of Engineering(estd.-1981) ([www.vce.ac.in])
Muffakham Jah College Of Engineering and Technology,(MJCET) Road No.2, Banjara Hills, (estd.1979) http://mjcollege.ac.in
M.V.S.R College of Engineering.(Mathrushri--estd.-1980) http://www.mvsrec.ac.in/
Deccan College of Engineering.(estd.-1982)

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