University of Mumbai

Wood's despatch, drafted by Sir Charles Wood in 1854, advocated a range of educational reforms in India, including the establishment of universities in major Indian cities. As such, the University of Bombay was established in 1857 after the presentation of a petition from the Bombay Association to the imperial Government of India. The university was modelled on similar universities in the United Kingdom, specifically the University of London. Until 1904, the university only conducted examinations, awarded affiliations to colleges, developed curricula, and produced guidelines for colleges developing curricula. The name of the university was changed from University of Bombay to University of Mumbai in 1996. In 1949, student enrolment was 42,272 with 80 affiliated colleges. By 1975, these numbers had grown to 156,190 and 114 respectively. • Jawaharlal Nehru Library • Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies (ADMI) which offers BMS, MFSM, MS Finance & MMS programmes Library Rajabai Clock Tower , located at the Fort campus, was built in 1878. One of Mumbai's landmarks, the Rajabai Clock Tower, was completed in the 1870s and houses the University of Mumbai's library. Sir George Gilbert Scott modeled the Rajabai Clock Tower on the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster in London. Local businessman Premchand Roychand contributed to the cost of construction and named the tower in memory of his mother, Rajabai. The tower is tall and has five storeys. At a height of from the ground, there are eight statues representing the Indian castes. The tower clock is reported to have played 16 tunes including "Rule Britannia", "God Save the Queen", "Home! Sweet Home!" and "A Handel Symphony". On the initiative of the then Vice-Chancellor, Rajan Welukar, the first phase of restoration of Rajabai Clock Tower started in 2013 and was completed in May 2015. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) gave a Rs 4 crore grant for this phase of the restoration project. Convocation Hall ==Affiliated colleges==

Its jurisdiction extends over 7 districts – Mumbai City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Palghar district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district. Prominent institutes Several departments of the University of Mumbai are a part of vocational institutions and are not located on the four Mumbai campuses. These include the departments of Medicine and Medical Research located in many prominent hospitals in Mumbai, such as the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay Hospital and Seth G.S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital. The Department of Medicine at Tata Memorial Hospital is now affiliated with the Homi Bhabha National Institute. Institute of Chemical Technology (then known as the University Department of Chemical Technology, UDCT), was originally a department of MU, which later gained the status of a university. Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, then known as the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, founded in 1887, was the first Engineering Institute of the University of Mumbai. Thadomal Shahani Engineering College was the first Engineering college in the University of Mumbai to start courses in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. ==Libraries==

Jawaharlal Nehru Library (JNL) is the central library, located on the campus at Kalina. By May 2019, it was desperately in need of restoration, and it was said to have been in a dire state for the prior two years. ==Vice-chancellors==

• John Wilson – 1857 • Raymond West • Alexander Kinloch Forbes • Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet – 1863–1868 • William Guyer Hunter – 1869 • Herbert Mills Birdwood • Rev. Dugald Mackichan – 1888–91 • Kashinath Trimbak Telang – 1892–1893 • Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar – 1893–1894 • N. G. Chandavarkar – 1911–1912 • John Heaton – 1912–1915 • Pherozeshah Mehta – 1915 • Sir Leslie Orme Wilson (Chancellor) – 1927 • Mirza Akbar Khan – 1930–31 • R. P. Paranjpye – 1934 • Sir Rustom Pestonji Masani – 1941 • Pandurang Vaman Kane • John Matthai – 1955–1957 • V. R. Khanolkar – 1960–1963 • Shashikant Karnik • Trimbak Krishna Tope – 1971–1977 • M. D. Bengalee – 1986–1992 • Snehlata Deshmukh – 1995–2000 • Bhalchandra Mungekar – 2000–2005 • Vijay Khole – 2005 – September 2009 • Chandra Krishnamurthy – September 2009 – July 2010, Acting Vice-Chancellor • Suhas Pednekar – August 2010 – September 2010, Acting Vice-Chancellor • Rajan Welukar – October 2010 – July 2015 • Sanjay V. Deshmukh – July 2015 – October 2017 • Suhas Pednekar – April 2018 − April 2023 • Dr. Ravindra D Kulkarni – June 2023 – Present • == Notable alumni ==

Internationally, the University of Mumbai was ranked 751–760 in the QS World University Rankings of 2024 and 291–300 in Asia. It was ranked 1201–1500 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, It also ranked 96th overall in 2023. ==Partner universities==

Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with University of Amsterdam, University of Bath, Liverpool Hope University, Toronto Metropolitan University, IESEG School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai University in China and Edith Cowan University in Australia. Oxford University ==See also==