Type Public Vice-Chancellor Yedla C Simhadri Founded 1917 Phone 0612 267 8008 Colors White, Red | Established 1917 Colours Red and white Chancellor Ram Nath Kovind Sports Cricket, Hockey, Curling | |
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Notable alumni Lalu Prasad Yadav, Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Bindeshwar Pathak, Bali Ram Bhagat Similar Patna College, Magadh University, Bihar National College, Anugrah Narayan College, Aryabhatta Knowledge University | ||
Ye jo bihar hai patna university in bihar
Patna University, the first university in Bihar, was established in 1917 during the British Raj, and is the seventh oldest university of
Contents
- Ye jo bihar hai patna university in bihar
- Patna university bihar india video
- History
- Organisation
- Faculties and Departments
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculties of Law Education Commerce Fine Arts and Medicine
- Traditional and Distance Education
- Library and Computer Center
- Notable faculty
- Notable alumni
- References
the Indian subcontinent. At that time, the jurisdiction of the university extended to Bihar, Odisha, and the Kingdom of Nepal. The university oversaw examinations for educational institutions ranging from school finals to the postgraduate levels. This continued almost for four decades, until the establishment of the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, and the Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar.
Patna university bihar india video
History
Patna University was established in the year 1917 as an affiliating and examining body. On January 2, 1952 it was converted into a purely teaching -cum-residential University with the territorial jurisdiction over Metropolitan Patna. It is one of the oldest Universities in India. It is the first in Bihar, and seventh oldest University in the subcontinent. The University buildings are mostly located on the bank of River Ganges and in the Saidpur Campus.
Organisation
The university is an affiliating institution and has its jurisdiction over metropolitan Patna. Ten colleges are affiliated into this university.
Faculties and Departments
Patna University has thirty departments organised into eight faculties: science; humanities; commerce; social sciences; education; law; fine arts and medicine.
Faculty of Science
This faculty consists the departments of physics, chemistry, mathematics, botany, zoology, statistics and Geology.
Faculty of Humanities
This faculty consists the departments of english, hindi, bengali, sanskrit, maithili, persian, philosophy, arbic and urdu.
Faculty of Social Sciences
This faculty consists the departments of history, geography, psychology, ancient indian history and archaeology, economics, personal management and industrial relations, sociology, political science and public administration.
Faculties of Law, Education, Commerce, Fine Arts and Medicine
Each of this faculty comprises only one department namely, law, education, commerce, fine arts and BDS.
Traditional and Distance Education
The university and it's affiliated colleges and institutions offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in different areas like law, teacher training, science, arts, commerce, medicine and engineering. Admission in these courses are mainly based on the result of higher secondary (10+2) and graduation (10+2+3) level results, respectively. The aspirants for research level programs have to sit for a qualifying test (RET) followed by an interview. Since 1974, the university also has a Directorate of Distance Education for conducting postgraduate studies in distance education.
Library and Computer Center
Patna University has a central library and computer center. Central Library has a collection of 4,00,000 volumes which includes textbooks, reference books etc, besides 87 periodicals and 50,000 back journals. It also has more than 5000 valuable old very rare manuscripts which is mostly used by research scholars. The Library is working to establish e-resource centre, e-journal facilities and to transform into Digital Library. The Library is open for 24 hours for students. Computer centre takes an important role for spreading the knowledge of computer education/ The University Computer Centre offers Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA) and P.G. Diploma in Bio-Informatics course.