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Motto in English | Lead us from Darkness to Light |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1918; 107 years ago (1918) |
| Founder | Mir Osman Ali Khan |
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Academic affiliations | |
| Chancellor | Governor of Telangana |
| Vice-Chancellor | Kumar Moglaram |
Academic staff | 445[1] |
| Students | 10,280[1] |
| Undergraduates | 1,989[1] |
| Postgraduates | 5,091[1] |
| 3,200[1] | |
| Address | Osmania University Main road,Amberpet ,Tarnaka,Secunderabad, Hyderabad ,,India 17°24′40″N78°31′44″E / 17.411°N 78.529°E /17.411; 78.529 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
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Osmania University is acollegiatepublicstate university located inHyderabad,Telangana, India.Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7thNizam of Hyderabad, issued afirman calling for its creation on 29 August 1917.[2] It is the third oldest university in southern India, and the first to be established in the erstwhileKingdom of Hyderabad.[3][4][5] It was the first Indian university to useUrdu as a language of instruction,[2] although withEnglish as a compulsory subject.[6] As of 2012, the university hosts 3,700 international students from more than 80 nations.[7]
Osmania is one of thelargest university systems in the world with over 300,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges. TheOsmania Medical College was once a part of the Osmania University System.[8] However, it is now under the supervision ofKaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences.[9][10][11]
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In 1917,Sir Akbar Hydari, in a memorandum to the Education Minister, emphasised the need to establish a university in Hyderabad withUrdu as the medium of instruction, "as it is the language of the widest currency in the state".[12] On 26 April 1917, theNizam of HyderabadMir Osman Ali Khan issued afirman to establish the Osmania University.[13]
The university began functioning in 1918 in a building adjacent to the Nizam College atBasheerbagh.[14] Arts and theology were the only two faculties offered, and the first batch consisted of 225 students and 25 faculty members.[15]
The government invitedPatrick Geddes and Edwin Jasper to set up a permanent campus of the university.[16] Geddes surveyed prospective locations and presented his report in 1923.[13] Jasper drew up the building plans and the Nizam laid the foundation stone for the campus on 5 July 1934.[13] After Jasper left Hyderabad, the state architectZain Yar Jung supervised the construction of the campus.[17]
After independence and theaccession of Hyderabad State in 1948, the university fell under the purview of the state government. After the election of the first state government, the central government announced plans to convert Osmania University into acentral university withHindi as the medium of instructions. However, this led to protests and with pressure from theMulki agitation, the plan was dropped.[18] Eventually, English replaced Urdu as the medium of instruction, and the Nizam's crown was also removed from the university seal.
The original seal featured the Nizam's crown as the crest, along with the phraseNoorun Ala Noor. It also contained thehadith, "I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate".[19]
The present emblem contains inscriptions in Telugu and Sanskrit. The new logo has the Urdu letter Ain in between.
The Main campus is a chief intellectual centre in Hyderabad, and itsalumni and faculty members include many distinguished individuals, including formerPrime Minister of IndiaP. V. Narasimha Rao. Admission to Main campus departments of Genetics, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Engineering, Management, and Law is highly competitive.[21] The state government has appointed Prof S.Ramachandram as vice chancellor of the university. The university is accredited by the NAAC with an 'A+' Grade and conferred with the status of 'University with Potential for Excellence' by the UGC, New Delhi.[22]
The University College of Arts and Social Sciences,University College of Commerce & Business Management, University College of Technology,University College of Engineering, University College of Law, University College of Science, Institute of Advance Study in Education, and PG College of Physical Education. The university offers courses in Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Commerce and Business Management, Information Technology and Oriental Languages. In 2001, Osmania was awarded five-star status by the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission, part of the Government of India.[23]
The university has a campus of nearly 1600 acres (6 km2) with 300,000 students (counting all the campuses, constituent affiliated colleges and district centres) making it one of the largest higher education systems in India. Nearly 5000 faculty and staff are employed at Osmania.[24] It attracts students from across the nation as well as from other countries.[25]
Osmania University is a confederation of university colleges, constituent colleges, and affiliated colleges. The constituent colleges of the university include:[28]
The affiliated engineering colleges of the university are mostly scattered throughout theGHMC area and offer various undergraduate and post-graduate engineering courses.[29]The affiliated engineering colleges include (in no particular order):
Osmania is a non-profit university which is funded and managed by the government. Admissions into the Bachelor of Engineering, Masters and Doctoral programs in main campus is on a merit basis, evaluated by national entrance examinations (TG EAPCET,GATE, BCFSBTGMES-N&D, TSLAWCET, O.U. PhD Entrance Exam,DOST etc.) for each of the courses offered.
The University Library is the main library of the university and it was founded in 1918 along with the university. It has close to 500,000 books and more than 6000 manuscripts, which includes rare palm leave manuscripts. It also has various journals, government documents, etc. The main library coordinates a library system, which connects the libraries in the entire campus and other constituent college libraries.[31][32][33]
| University rankings | |
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| General – international | |
| QS (World) (2023)[34] | 1201-1400 |
| QS (Asia) (2023)[35] | 401–450 |
| Times (World) (2023)[36] | 1201–1500 |
| Times (Asia) (2022)[37] | 301–350 |
| Times (Emerging) (2022)[38] | 301–350 |
| General – India | |
| NIRF (Overall) (2024)[39] | 70 |
| NIRF (Universities) (2024)[40] | 43 |
Osmania University has ranked 1201–1400 in the world and 401–450 among universities in Asia category by theQS World University Rankings of 2023.[34][35] TheTimes Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it 1201–1500 globally in the 2023 ranking[36] 301–350 in Asia in 2022[37] and 301–350 among Emerging Economies University Rankings 2021.[38]
In India, theNational Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked Osmania University 43rd among Indian universities and 70th overall in 2024.[40][39]
The research activities are funded by various autonomous agencies of the government of India. Foreign students are also admitted to the university via UFRO (University Foreign Relations Office) that allots admissions with minimum criteria. Indian students living overseasNon-resident Indian are also admitted through UFRO that are usually ineligible to get admissions via the entrance exams quota.
Notable alumni of Osmania University include 9thPrime Minister of IndiaP. V. Narasimha Rao,[21]Jaipal Reddy, cabinet minister, 16th and last Chief Minister of unitedAndhra Pradesh withTelanganaNallari Kiran Kumar Reddy, CEO Adobe systemsShantanu Narayen and senior advocateSubodh Markandeya.
Other alumni include spiritual guide and founder ofShrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur,Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji,[41] pro chancellor of khaja bandanawaz university Syed Muhammad Ali Al Hussaini, former Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia and Yemen DrAusaf Sayeed, former Indian Cricket team captainMohammed Azharuddin, cricket commentatorHarsha Bhogle, novelistVenkatesh Kulkarni, author and poet Sneha Narayanan, PDSU founderGeorge Reddy, former Union Home MinisterShivraj Patil, former governor of theReserve Bank of IndiaYaga Venugopal Reddy, chemistGarikapati Narahari Sastry, Metallurgist and former Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu UniversityPatcha Ramachandra Rao and physicistRaziuddin Siddiqui.Rakesh Sharma, cosmonaut and the first Indian to travel in space, was a graduate of Osmania.[42]Karan Bilimoria, founder ofCobra Beer, Member of theHouse of Lords, and the seventh Chancellor of theUniversity of Birmingham earned hisBachelor of Commerce degree from Osmania in 1981.[43]Rafi Ahmed, a well-known virologist and immunologist graduated from Osmania University in 1968.Krishna R. Reddy, civil and environmental engineer known for his research in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, graduated from Osmania University in 1983 with a Gold Medal.[44]
Notable former faculty members of the university includeBhadriraju Krishnamurti, Dravidianist and linguist, and founder of linguistics department at the university, physicistSuri Bhagavantam, and linguistMasud Husain Khan.[citation needed]
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