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Chaudhary Charan Singh University (formerly, Meerut University)
was established in 1965, to cater to the needs of higher
education in western Uttar Pradesh. The University celebrated
its silver jubilee in 1991. Presently, it is one of the premier
educational institutions of the country encompassing a vast,
beautiful and pollution-free campus which sprawls over 222 acres
of land having vast playgrounds and experimental fields,
botanical garden, rose garden with life-size statue of the late
Prime Minister Ch. Charan Singh, Gymnasium, Indoor Stadium, well
equipped Library, Hostels for both girls and boys,
Administrative Block, Spacious Auditorium, Guest House,
Community Center, Medical Center, Residential Quarters for
faculty members and employees, Canteen, Bank and Post office.
The teaching department belonging to different faculties, are
housed in spacious buildings and have well-equipped laboratories
and advanced facilities. The University also has a separate
engineering college, which is currently offering courses leading
to B.Tech. degree in several different branches of engineering.
Initially, the M.Phil and Ph.D. programmes were started in 1969
taking credit of becoming first University in the country to
introduce M.Phil. programme. In 1973, Post Graduate level
courses were also introduced with the modernized syllabi. Since
then, the University has been progressing at a steady rate.
During the VIII five years plan, introduction of self-financed
courses keeping in pace with the changing demands of the society
and also for human resources development, were planned. Now,
there are five faculties with 22 UGC sponsored and 35
selffinanced/job oriented courses being run in the campus. 252
professional colleges/institutions 109 colleges and one
constituent college are affiliated to Chaudhary Charan Singh
University.
Under the able leadership of the Vice Chancellor, a renowned
innovative technologist and an established committed academic
administrator, the university is offering a large number of new
and innovative post-graduate, under-graduate, diploma, advanced
diploma and postgraduate diploma courses under self-financed
scheme in areas of Agricultural Sciences, Humanities, Social
Sciences, Journalism, Mass Communication and Multimedia
Techniques, Earth Sciences, Teacher and Physical Education, Fine
Arts, Legal Studies, Applied Sciences, Home Science, Business
Studies, Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote
Censoring. |
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