Shivaji University (
Marathi:
शिवाजी विद्यापीठ), established in 1962, is in
Kolhapur,
Maharashtra,
India. The university's campus is 853 acres (3.4519 km2), and is named after
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, 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. Kolhapur,
Sangli, and
Satara come under its jurisdiction with 279 affiliated colleges and recognised institutes.
One of the major objectives behind its foundation was to cater to the
regional needs of South Maharashtra. The University's efforts towards
excellence are being recognised by the substantial grants received from
funding agencies like
University Grants Commission (India),
Department of Science and Technology (India), and DBT.
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 and Nashik and Centre for Social Studies have sought
affiliation with the Shivaji University.
Jurisdiction
Currently, the university has
Kolhapur,
Sangli, and
Satara districts under its jurisdiction with 279 affiliated colleges and recognized institute.
Ranking
Shivaji University has been re-accredited by
National Assessment and Accreditation Council, (NAAC) with "A" Grade (CGPA-3.16) (2014). Shivaji University is among top 50 Universities contributing towards research in India in 2015
Shivaji University is ranked 44th among all Universities in India.
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 280
and the student body has increased to 3,00,000 with 34 Postgraduate
Departments on campus. The University imparts education in 10 major
faculties of Arts, Social Science, Science, Commerce, Education, Fine
Arts, Law, Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Engineering and Technology.
Shiv-Sandesh
monthly bulletin is published online by Shivaji University, which throw
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
Arts
Commerce
Education
Engineering and Technology
Fine Arts
Law
Science
Social Science
Department of Technology
Shivaji University started Department of Technology
in June 2006 with the aim that opportunity for students to learn in
technology education and research of global standard for the human
resource development. In 2006 first four M. Tech courses were started
and in 2008 five B. Tech courses were started.
Mission
To be a seat of learning in technology education and research of global standard for the human resource development.
Vision
Shivaji University is committed to meet the educational, social,
cultural, and economic needs of the region and the nation to create a
just and humane society.
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-The Online Public Access Catalogue [OPAC] is available
within university intranet [LAN]. The building of complete database of
library documents is under progress. Hence, presently only the catalogue
data of around 2,00,000 old records (Including bound volumes of
journals, Thesis & Dissertations, rare books etc.) and catalogue
data of new books added w.e.f. Jan 1, 2008 is available. Now on new
books data will be available only online, it will no longer be available
in the form of Catalogue cards.
