Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) is a Central University established by an Act of Parliament in 1998. The headquarter and main campus of MANUU is located in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana State, over an area of 200 acres. The Read More...
Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) is a Central University established by an Act of Parliament in 1998. The headquarter and main campus of MANUU is located in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana State, over an area of 200 acres. The University is named after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the freedom fighter and outstanding scholar, who as the first Education Minister of Independent India envisioned and laid the foundation of technical, scientific and higher education in India.
The university promotes and develops the Urdu Language to impart education and training in vocational and technical subjects through the medium of Urdu, to provide wider access to people desirous of pursuing programmes of higher education and training in Urdu medium through teaching on the campus as well as at a distance, and provides focus on women education.
MANUU’s march of certainty in the realization of its objects can be witnessed from its programmes of study, which are in keeping with not only the traditional branches of learning but also are relevant with the present disciplines of knowledge. MANUU started offering its educational programmes from the year 1998 through distance mode of education, and from 2004 through campus mode.
The campus/regular programmes are offered through Seven Schools of Studies comprising the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences; Commerce and Business Management; Education and Training; Journalism and Mass Communication; Languages, Linguistics and Indology; Sciences and Technology (Computer Science & Information Technology). These Seven Schools have 19 Departments, which offer undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes.
MANUU has nine academic, technical, professional training and research centres. It has three directorates; Directorate of Distance Education (DDE), Directorate of Admissions (DoA) and Directorate of Translation and Publication (DTP).