About Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University was established in 1916 by Mahamana Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya ji. Banaras Hindu University ranks among the first few in the country in the field of academic and research output. This university has two campuses, 3 institutes, 16 faculties, 140 departments, 4 advanced centers and 4 interdisciplinary schools. The University is making its mark at the National and International levels in a number of frontier areas of Science, Social Science, Technology, Medicine and Agriculture etc. A university can grow successfully only when research and teaching mesh together seamlessly - one without the other is incomplete. Therefore we have ensured the development of a collaborative environment conducive to learning, exposure to the best National practices and promotion of innovation and creativity.

BHU today has nearly twenty thousand students including 2500 research scholars and 650 foreign students from 34 nations under one roof, who are pursuing different academic programmes at this campus as well as the newly established Rajiv Gandhi South Campus. These are some of the brightest young minds in the country and abroad, who have joined this University after clearing a rigorous All India Entrance Test. Institutions of higher learning are instrumental in providing equality of opportunities, which is the essence of participatory democracy. This will not only remove a sense of alienation and neglect in the backward regions but also prevent out migration from these areas.

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