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Type
  
Public

Academic staff
  
3,754 (2014)

Students
  
20,732 (2014)

Chancellor
  
Gulzar

Founded
  
1994

Established
  
1994

Administrative staff
  
1,534 (2014)

Undergraduates
  
14,852 (2014)

Phone
  
03842 270 806

Vice-chancellor
  
Dilip Chandra Nath

Address
  
Cachar District, Silchar, Assam 788011

Similar
  
Tezpur University, Assam Agricultural University, Gurucharan College, North Eastern Hill University, Tripura University

Assam university silchar


Assam University (Bengali: আসাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a teaching-cum-affiliating Central University. The history of Assam University is the history of people's struggle in Barak Valley . The "Saheed Minar" situated near the entrance of the university commemorates the history of Bengali language movement (বাংলা ভাষা আন্দোলন) of this valley. The university has sixteen schools which offer Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Information Sciences, Technology and Management Studies. There are 35 departments under these sixteen schools. The five districts under the jurisdiction of Assam University have 56 undergraduate colleges. Assam University is an institutional signatory to the Global Universities Network for Innovation (GUNI), Barcelona and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) for its commitment to educational social responsibilities.

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The main campus, in an area of 600 acres (2.4 km2), is located at Dargakona, near Irongmara about 20 km from Silchar, while a second campus of the university is at Diphu, in the East Karbi Anglong district of Assam.

Assam university night


Schools and Departments

The major teaching schools of the university along with the departments under them are:

Abanindranath Tagore School of Creative Arts and Communication Studies

  • Department of Mass Communication
  • Department of Visual Arts

    • Albert Einstein School of Physical Science

  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Statistics
  • Department of Computer Science

    • Aryabhatta School of Earth Sciences

  • Department of Earth Sciences

    • Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay School of Education

  • Department of Educational Science
  • Department of Law

    • E. P. Odam School of Environmental Sciences

  • Department of Ecology and Environmental Science

    • Hargobind Khurana School of Life Sciences

  • Department of Life Science & Bioinformatics
  • Department of Biotechnology
  • Department of Microbiology

    • Jadunath Sarkar School of Social Sciences

  • Department of Anthropology
  • Department of History
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of Social Work
  • Department of Sociology

    • Jawaharlal Nehru School of Management Studies

  • Department of Business Administration

    • Mahatma Gandhi School of Economics and Commerce

  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Commerce

    • Rabindranath Tagore School of Indian Languages and Cultural Studies

  • Department of Bengali
  • Department of Hindi
  • Department of Manipuri
  • Department of Sanskrit
  • Department of Linguistics
  • Department of Assamese

    • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan School of Philosophy

  • Department of Philosophy

    • Shushrutu School of Medical and Paramedical Sciences

  • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

    • Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay School of English and Foreign Language Studies

  • Department of English
  • Department of Arabic
  • Department of French
  • Department of Urdu

    • Swami Vivekananda School of Library Sciences

  • Department of Library & Information Science

    • Triguna Sen School of Technology

  • Department of Agricultural Engineering
  • Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering (Formerly Department of Information Technology)

    • Academic collaboration

  • Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Nihon University, Japan
  • University of Montreal, Canada
  • Jiao Tong University, China
  • Nantes University, France
  • University of Kobe, Japan
  • Dhaka University, Bangladesh
  • Chittagong University, Bangladesh
  • Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
  • Jagannath University, Bangladesh
  • Rajshahi University, Bangladesh

    • Affiliated colleges

    All the colleges in the 5 districts of South Assam, viz, Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi, North Cachar Hills or Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong district fall within university's jurisdiction. Till the year 2013 there were 50 colleges which include Degree colleges, a Medical college, a few Law colleges and Teachers' Training colleges. This is a list of colleges affiliated with Assam University.

  • Srikishan Sarda College. Hailakandi
  • Janata College.Kabuganj
  • Borkhola College, Borkhola
  • Cachar College, Silchar
  • Diphu Government College, Diphu
  • Karimganj College, Karimganj
  • Gurucharan College, Silchar
  • Radhamadhab College, Silchar
  • Silchar Medical College and Hospital
  • Women's College, Silchar

    • References

    Assam University Wikipedia
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