Central University of Kashmir

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Type Public Vice-Chancellor Prof. Mehraj Uddin Mir Phone 095964 34613 Chancellor Srikumar Banerjee		Established 2009 Affiliations UGC Founded March 2009, Ganderbal Motto Knowledge is Power
Location Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir,, India Campus Nowgam - campus 1 at puhroo stop and campus 2 at vanbal , nowgam Address National High Way Srinagar, Tulmulla Road, Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir 191201 Similar Central University of Jammu, Central University of Karnat, University of Kashmir, Central University of Kerala, Central University of Haryana

The Central University of Kashmir formerly the Central University of Jammu and Kashmir, is a university proposed to be settled at Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir and presently functioning from transit campuses at Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is one of the 13 newly established central universities in different states of India by the Central Universities Act, 2009. It currently offers four five-year integrated programmes (in biotechnology, law, physics and zoology) and few postgraduate programmes such as MA, MSc, MBA, MTM & LLM. At present, the available disciplines are Business Administration, Convergent Journalism, Economics, Education, English Language & Literature, Information Technology, Law, Mathematics, Politics, Tourism Management and Urdu Language & Literature. The research programmes like Integrated MPhil/PhD in Education, Management Studies & Tourism Management and PhD in Law have also been started. Professor Abdul Wahid Qureshi was the first Vice Chancellor of the University. And renowned nuclear scientist Srikumar Banerjee has been appointed as the first chancellor of the University. The university started INTEGRATED BSC-MSC MATHEMATICS programme from 2016