Shivaji University
Shivaji University established in 1962, is a state university located at Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. The university, with a campus spread over 853 acres, is named after Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire. It was inaugurated on 18 November 1962 by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the then president of India. Yashwantrao Chavan and Balasaheb Desai took the lead in establishing this university. Educational institutions from Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara districts come under its jurisdiction with 279 affiliated colleges and recognised institutes. One of the major objectives behind its foundation was to cater to the educational needs of South Maharashtra region. The University's efforts towards excellence are being recognised by the substantial grants received from funding agencies such as University Grants Commission, Department of Science and Technology, and DBT. The university is self reliant in water, which is stored on campus during the rainy season. It has a biodiversity-rich campus.
Shivaji University has recently signed MoU with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre for research in Material Science. It has also partnered with the Indian Institute of Geo-Magnetism, Mumbai and industries like Phyto-Pharma. Institutes including Maharashtra Police Academy at Nashik and Centre for Social Studies have sought affiliation with the Shivaji University.
Jurisdiction
It was established with jurisdiction over five districts including Ratnagiri and Solapur along with Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara districts with 293 affiliated colleges and recognized institutes.Ranking
Shivaji University has been re-accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council, with "A" Grade .Affiliations
In 1962 the University started functioning with 34 affiliated colleges and about 14,000 students with 5 Post-graduate Departments on the campus. Today the number of affiliated colleges has gone up to 293 and the student body has increased to 2,50,000 with 34 Postgraduate Departments on campus. The University imparts education in four major faculties of Humanities, Science and Technology, Commerce and Management and Faculty of Interdisciplinary StudiesShiv-Sandesh monthly bulletin is published online by Shivaji University, which throws light on various activities, programs organised in the university.
Madhyamvidya and Media Spectrum are private distribution newspapers published by M.A. Mass communication department students.
Departments
Humanities- English
- Department of Foreign Language
- Department of Hindi
- Department of Marathi
- Department of Economics
- Department of History
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Sociology
- Yashwantrao Chavan School of Rural Development
- Department of Music and Dramatics
- Department of Commerce and Management
- Department of Commerce and Management- M.B.A Unit
- Department of Technology
- School of Nanoscience and Technology
- Department of Agrochemicals and Pest Management
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Department of Bio-Chemistry
- Department of Biotechnology
- Department of Botany
- Department of chemistry
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Electronics
- Department of Environment Science
- Department of Food Science & Technology
- Department of Geography
- Department of Industrial Chemistry
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Micro-Biology
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Zoology
- Department of Technology
- Department of Adult and Continuing Education
- Department of Education
- Department of Sports
- Department of Law
- Department of Journalism and Communication
- Department of Library & Information Science
Department of Technology
Barrister Balasaheb Khardekar Library
The Barr. B. Khardekar Library at Shivaji University is one of the leading university libraries in southern Maharashtra. It caters to the academic needs of students, faculty and other users from the university as well as visitors from other universities and institutes. The library has over 3.1 lakhs printed documents and it subscribes to over 298 national and international journals. The library is a member of UGC/INFONET Digital Library consortium of INFLIBNET Centre, under which it has access to over 6000+ electronic journals and few electronic databases. It has established contacts with universities, national and international organizations libraries for inter-library loans.The library was named after the late Barr. Balasaheb Khardekar on 24 October 1981.
Library facilities
- OPAC
MoUs of Shivaji University with other universities and institutes
- Gifu University, Japan
- Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
- Chonnam National University, South Korea
- National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
- University of Brasília, Brasilia- Brazil
- Monash University, Clayton, Australia
- Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
- Khon Kaen University, Thailand
- Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
- National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
- Asian Research Network instituted by Hanyang University, South Korea
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
- Joint MoU with Savitribai Phule Pune University, University of Mumbai and Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik
- Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai
- National Institute of Oceanography, India
- Centre for Social Studies, Surat
- Microsoft Corporation Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
- Intel Technology Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
- Infosys BPO
- Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Islampur
Notable alumni
- Dnyaneshwar Mulay
- Dr. D.Y.Patil
- Nirmalya Kumar
- Uttam Kamble
- R. Madhavan
- Narendra Dabholkar
- Bharat Patankar
- P. A. Inamdar
- Sushilkumar Shinde
- R.R. Patil
- Sambhaji Raje Chhatrapati
- Satej Patil
- Sai Tamhankar
- Tejaswini Sawant
- Sushilkumar Shinde
- Atul Kulkarni
- Vishwas Nangare Patil
- Y V Subba Reddy
- Virdhaval Khade
- Rahi Sarnobat
- Ganesh Bagler
Vice-Chancellors