Mumbai University

University of Mumbai
मुंबई विद्यापीठ
Seal of University of Mumbai
Motto	Sanskrit: शीलवृतफला विद्या
Motto in English	"The Fruit of Learning is Good Character and Righteous Conduct"
Established	18 July 1857
Type	Public
Chancellor	Governor of Maharashtra
Vice-Chancellor	Rajan M. Welukar
Location	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 18°58′30″N 72°49′33″E / 18.975°N 72.82583°E / 18.975; 72.82583Coordinates: 18°58′30″N 72°49′33″E / 18.975°N 72.82583°E / 18.975; 72.82583
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	UGC, NAAC, AIU
Website	mu.ac.in

The University of Mumbai  is a state university located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was known as the University of Bombay until 1996 when the city of Bombay was renamed as Mumbai. The affiliated colleges of the university are spread throughout the city of Mumbai and four coastal districts in Maharashtra: Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg. The university offers Bachelors', Masters' and Doctoral degrees apart from Diplomas and Certificates in many disciplines.

The university was founded by Dr. John Wilson in 1857 and is modelled on the universities of Britain. Mumbai university primarily imparts education through its affiliated colleges. St. Xavier's College was affiliated to the university in 1868, with Dr John Wilson as its first vice-chancellor. His wife, Margaret Bayne Wilson, founded 16 schools mainly for girls, the most famous among them being St. Columbia High School. Initially, the Elphinstone College building was used for Mumbai University.

Today, the university campuses serve as centres of administration and centres for higher education. In 1996, the name of the university was changed from University of Bombay to University of Mumbai, according to a Government Gazette. It is abbreviated as either UoM, standing for University of Mumbai or MU for Mumbai University. Most of the colleges in the city of Mumbai and the districts of Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg are affiliated to the University of Mumbai. In suburban Mumbai, the university campus is located at Kalina, Santacruz. The campus houses both academic and administrative departments of the university. Another campus located in Fort carries out administrative work only.

University of Mumbai has been given a ranking of five stars by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. In 2010, it was ranked between 451 and 500 among 500 universities of the world on the QS World University Rankings. In 2009, it was ranked 432 on the same ranking list. Several world-renowned institutes in Mumbai were affiliated to the university. Most of them are now autonomous institutes or deemed universities. These include St. Xavier's College, Narsee Monjee College, K.E.S Shroff College, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (formerly, Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute), Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly, University Department of Chemical Technology), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, a deemed university of the University of Mumbai, and the Tata Memorial Hospital.

Accreditation

University of Mumbai is currently not an accredited university. It's five star accreditation, the highest grade, expired in 2007.

Central Hall

Libraries

Jawaharlal Nehru Library

The central library, Jawaharlal Nehru Library (JNL) is located in the campus at Kalina. It houses 850,000 books, documents and scientific journals, theses, encyclopedias, along with over 30,000 microfilms and over 1,200 rare manuscripts, International Monetary Fund reports, census records and several hundreds of e-journals. The library catalogue is computerised. Most books in the library are on topics of basic sciences, social sciences and behavioural sciences.

The technology and applied research journals and books of the University of Mumbai are kept at other libraries including those at Institute of Chemical Technology, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Tata Memorial Hospital. Together the University of Mumbai collection of books and scientific journals includes over a million documents.

Rajabai Clock Tower

Rajabai Clock Tower

A file photo of University of Mumbai's Fort Campus taken in 1870s. Rajabai Clock Tower here seen shrouded in scaffolding was completed in 1878.

Side view of the Fort Campus

One of Mumbai's landmarks, the Rajabai Clock Tower is situated in the Mumbai University campus at Fort. It houses the University Library. Based on plans by British architect Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in the 1870s, it was modelled on the Big Ben clock tower of London. A businessman, Premchand Raichand contributed monetarily to the construction of the tower. It is named in memory of his mother Rajabai. It is 280 feet tall with five storeys. At a height of 30 feet from the ground, there are eight statues representing the Indian castes. The tower clock is reported to have played 16 tunes including Rule, Britannia.

Campuses

Kalina Campus

A large campus is situated in Kalina, Santacruz in suburban Mumbai. Much of its 230 acre area (930,000 m²) is reserved for the development of future disciplines. It has on-campus graduate training and research centers. Several departments offering courses in the streams of science, technology, commerce and humanities are located here. However, all colleges of engineering affiliated to the University of Mumbai are privately-owned. The university does not have an engineering department and Department of Medicine of its own.

An indicative list of centers and institutes located in the Kalina Campus:

• National Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology - a research facility
• Department of Biophysics, the only department of its kind in western India.
• Jawaharlal Nehru Library
• Examination House, also known as Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Bhavan. It houses the office of the Controller of Examinations.
• Garware Institute of Career Education & Development. It offers various courses including one in medical transcription and management courses like Agriculture Business Management, Pharma management and Tourism management.
• MUST (मस्त ) FM, the campus radio station of the university operates from here at 107.8 MHz Frequency Modulation.
• Alkesh Dinesh Mody Numismatic Museum. It displays currency from different parts of the world and belonging to various periods of time.
• Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies (Department of Mumbai University)
• Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial & Management Studies is Mumbai University's Department college, second after Jamnalal Bajaj Institute for Management Studies with their BMS, MFSM and MMS programme.
• Department of Extra Mural Studies. It conducts weekend courses in many disciples including astronomy, astrophysics, plant and animal taxonomy, hobby robotics and hobby electronics.
• The Institute of Distance Education (IDE). It offers distance learning courses in humanities, sciences, commerce, computer science and information technology.
• Western Regional Instrumentation Centre (WRIC). It is a research and training facility for Instrumentation Engineering and Science.
• Centre for African Studies
• Centre for Eurasian Studies
• Rose garden featuring over a hundred varieties of roses.
• Marathi Bhasha Bhavan - Centre for learning the Marathi language. It conducts academic activities and cultural activities associated with the language.

Fort Campus

Completed Rajabai Tower and University Hall, ca 1905

The original campus is at Fort, Mumbai, near the southern end of the city of Mumbai. It houses the administrative division of the university. It is built in the Gothic style of architecture. The Rajabai clock tower is located in the lawns of the campus. The convocation hall of the university has been accorded the status of a heritage structure.

The University of Bombay was established at the Fort Campus in 1857. In the same year, universities were established in the two Presidency towns of Calcutta and Madras. Fort Campus was one of the first educational institutions established by the British in India following Sir Charles Wood's Dispatch on Education in 1854.

Ratnagiri Campus

A minor campus running mostly extramural courses is located in the town of Ratnagiri.

Other institutes

Several departments of the University of Mumbai are located at places other than the Fort or Kalina campus. These include the Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Technology, formerly (UDCT), the Alkhesh Dinesh Mody Instituted for Financial and Management Studies and the the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) located in Mumbai, the central technical institute of Maharashtra State. The departments of Medicine and Medical Research are spread out across several prominent hospitals in Mumbai. Chief amongst these are the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay Hospital and G.S. Medical College of the University of Mumbai. St. Xavier's College was the first degree-granting college affiliated to the University. It was granted autonomy in 2009.

Additionally, about 90 privately run engineering colleges located in Mumbai, suburban Mumbai, Thane and Vashi are affiliated to the University of Mumbai.

Vice chancellors

Rajabai Clock Tower in its full beauty, brightly lit during the night.

• Dr John Wilson
• Sir Raymond West KCIE
• Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, 1863–1868
• William Guyer Hunter 1869
• Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1892–1893
• Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, 1893–1894
• Justice Mirza Akbar Kha, 1930–31
• R. P. Paranjpe, 1934
• Pandurang Vaman Kane
• Dr John Matthai, 1955-1957
• Dr V. R. Khanolkar, 1960–1963
• Dr M. D. Bengalee, 1986
• Dr Snehalata Deshmukh, -2000
• Dr B. L. Mungekar, 2000–2005
• Dr Vijay Khole, 2005-September 2009
• Dr Chandra Krishnamurthy, September 2009– July 2010, Acting Vice Chancellor
• Dr Rajan Welukar, July 2010–present

The library

Rajabai Tower

Chancellor

As the University of Mumbai, is a state run university, the Governor of the state of Maharashtra is the ex-officio Chancellor of the university.

Alumni :

• Lokmanya Tilak - Maker of modern India, Indian nationalist leader, savant, philosopher, mathematician.
• B. R. Ambedkar - Architect of modern India & Author of the Constitution of India, social reformist and thinker.
• Mahatma Gandhi - Father of the Indian nation.
• Lal Krishna Advani - Former Deputy Prime Minister of India
• Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi - Judge, High Court of Sindh & Balochistan, Pakistan.
• Kona Prabhakara Rao - Governor of Maharashtra, Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, Governor of Sikkim, Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Speaker of AP State Assembly
• Ahmed Hussain A Kazi - Secretary to Government of Pakistan and Chairman Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation
• Aishwarya Rai - Miss World in 1994 and leading Indian actress
• P. V. Narasimha Rao - former Indian prime minister
• Mahadev Govind Ranade - Indian lawyer, reformer and author, first batch graduate
• Man Mohan Sharma - Fellow Royal Society, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Former Director of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT)
• Jagdish Bhagwati - University Professor of Economics at Columbia University
• Nissim Ezekiel - Indian poet (English language)
• Anil Kakodkar - Director of BARC and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy
• Klaus Klostermaier, F.R.S.C., Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Scholar of Indian Studies
• R.A. Mashelkar - Fellow Royal Society, General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Mukesh Ambani - Managing Director, Reliance Industries (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Yogesh Chabria - Successful investor, entrepreneur and bestselling author of the Happionaire series.
• Anji Reddy, Founder, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Padma Shri (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Keki Hormusji Gharda, Founder, Gharda Chemicals (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Homai Vyarawalla (1913- ), 1st woman photojounalist of India, Padma Vibushan
• Anant Pai - Publisher of Indian books for children especially the series Amar Chitra Katha
• Dwarkanath Kotnis - A well-known doctor in China who helped Chinese communists army during the World War II.
• Ebrahim Alkazi, theatre director, Padma Vibhushan
• Lara Dutta - Miss Universe in 2000
• Anand Patwardhan - Indian documentary film-maker
• Sunil Gavaskar - Indian cricketer (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Smita Patil - Indian actress (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Shabana Azmi - Indian Actress (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Edward Hamilton Aitken - humorist, naturalist
• Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar - Oriental scholar and social reformer, first batch graduate, later vice-chancellor
• Acacio Gabriel Viegas - Medical practitioner credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai, India in 1896.
• Georg Bühler - Scholar of ancient Indian languages and law - fellow of University of Mumbai.
• John Samuel Malecela - Prime Minister of Tanzania from 1990 –1994.
• Indira Viswanathan Peterson - Professor of Asian Studies and editor of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.
• G.S. Maddala - American economist and mathematician
• Harish Kapadia - Himalayan Mountaineer and recipient of Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society
• Mehli Mehta - Indian conductor of European classical music and father of conductor Zubin Mehta.
• Manil Suri - Indian mathematician and writer.
• Kashinath Trimbak Telang - Indian judge and oriental scholar.
• B.N. Srikrishna Indian jurist and a Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Sir Pherozeshah Mehta - Indian political leader and social activist.
• Madhav Das Nalapat - Holder of the UNESCO Peace Chair.
• Bhulabhai Desai - Indian freedom fighter and lawyer.
• Vasundhara Raje - Chief Minister of the state of Rajasthan, India.
• Ranjan Ghosh - Indian screenwriter and director Aparna Sen's first co-author.
• Vidya Balan - Indian actress based in Mumbai, India.
• Gangadhar Gadgil - Marathi fiction writer.
• Rafiq Zakaria - late Indian politician and Islamic scholar.
• Pandurang Vaman Kane - Indologist and Sanskrit scholar and former Vice Chancellor of university of Mumbai.
• Mancherjee Bhownagree - British politician of Indian Parsi heritage.
• Nanabhoy Palkhivala - Indian jurist and economist.
• Sucheta Dalal - Business journalist from Mumbai, India.
• Thrity Umrigar - Journalist and author from Mumbai, India.
• Aditi Govitrikar- Mrs World 2000
• Zakir Naik - Muslim scholar on comparative religion
• Sanjeev Naik - MP from Thane
• Praful Patel - MP from Bhandara-Gondiya
• Sanjay Dina Patil - MP from Mumbai North East
• Nilesh Rane - MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg
• Capt. Samarth Singh - Entrepreneur and part of the elite Stanford Who's Who Black Book
• Ajit Gulabchand - Industrialist, Chairman and Managing Director Hindustan Construction Company
• Ravi Gomatam - Quantum Physicist, Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology, Berkeley, and Mumbai