universities in India

The college apprenticeship arrangement in India includes both clandestine and accessible universities. Accessible universities are accurate by the Government of India and the accompaniment governments, while clandestine universities are mostly accurate by assorted bodies and societies. Universities in India are accustomed by the University Grants Commission (UGC), which draws its ability from the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. In addition, 15 Able Councils are established, authoritative altered aspects of accreditation and coordination.
The types of universities include:
Central universities, or Abutment universities are accustomed by an Act of Parliament and are beneath the ambit of the Department of College Apprenticeship in the Abutment Human Resource Development Ministry. The UGC lists 46 axial universities.
State universities are run by the accompaniment government of anniversary of the states and territories of India, and are usually accustomed by a bounded aldermanic accumulation act. As of 2 November 2015, the UGC lists 340 accompaniment universities. The oldest enactment date listed by the UGC is 1857, aggregate by the University of Mumbai, the University of Madras and the University of Calcutta. Note that a lot of Accompaniment Universities are "affiliating universities" in that they administrate a ample amount of "affiliated colleges" (many amid in actual baby towns) that about action a ambit of undergraduate courses, but may aswell action post-graduate courses. More accustomed colleges ability even action PhD programs in some departments with the approval of the affiliating university.
Deemed university, or "Deemed to be University", is a cachet of freedom accepted by the Department of College Apprenticeship on the admonition of the UGC, beneath Section 3 of the UGC Act. As on 2 November 2015,the UGC account 125 accounted universities. According to this list, the aboriginal convention to be accepted accounted university cachet was Indian Convention of Science which was accepted this cachet on 12 May 1958. Note that in abounding cases, the aforementioned advertisement by the UGC covers several institutes. For example, the advertisement for Homi Bhabha National Convention covers the Convention of Mathematical Sciences, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and added institutes.
Private universities are accustomed by the UGC. They can admission degrees but they are not accustomed to accept off-campus affiliated colleges. The UGC account of clandestine universities as on 2 November 2015 lists 226 clandestine universities.
India has 737 universities. There are universities of some affectionate in anniversary and every of the 29 states of India as able-bodied as three of the abutment territories, Chandigarh, Delhi and Puducherry. The accompaniment with the a lot of universities is Rajasthan with 70 universities. Tamil Nadu is the accompaniment with the a lot of accounted universities, calculation 28.West Bengal has the a lot of Accompaniment Universities viz. 25 Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat accept 24 accompaniment universities each, Rajasthan the a lot of clandestine universities , while Delhi and Uttar Pradesh accept 5 axial universities each, the better amount of all the states and territories.
Apart from the aloft universities, added institutions are accepted the permission to apart accolade degrees. However, they do not associate colleges and are not clearly alleged "universities" but "autonomous organizations" or "autonomous institutes". They abatement beneath the authoritative ascendancy of the Department of College Education. These organizations cover the Indian Institutes of Information Technology, Indian Institutes of Technology, the National Institutes of Technology, the Indian Institutes of Science Apprenticeship and Research, the Indian Institutes of Management (though these accolade diplomas, not degrees) and added free institutes. These institutes are not listed below. Aswell not listed are institutes which are beneath the ascendancy of the able councils, after approval of the UGC, e.g. Agricultural Universities, which are beneath the ascendancy of the Agricultural Apprenticeship Division of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), one of the able councils. As of August 2015, India has a absolute of 18 IITs, the Indian School of Mines, 32 NITs, 18 state-funded abstruse institutes and 18 IIITs.