Osmania University – Courses, Admission, Facilities, Placements, Contact Details
About Osmania University
Osmania University is a public state university located in University town, Hyderabad, India, and founded in 1918 with the help of chief Architect of Mahbub Ali Khan – Nawab Sarwar Jung. It was established by and named after the seventh and last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan.
Courses Provided by Osmania University
Private colleges, run by educational societies and philanthropic trusts, form the backbone of the Under Graduate College Education at Osmania University.
There are around 500 such colleges (Government and private) offering technical and non-technical courses at both Post-Graduate and Under Graduate levels scattered in the different districts under the umbrella of Osmania University, which monitors academic functioning and is the examining body for the granting of degrees.
The University has no financial commitment for the management of these colleges. These colleges provide teaching and laboratory facilities to admitted students, who after completion of teaching, appear for the examinations conducted by the University.
However, to assist them in the academic development, enable their growth by guiding them in obtaining funding from Government sources, and to coordinate activities between the colleges and the UGC, the University has established a College Development Council.
The UGC has accorded a high place to the development and improvement of the standard of affiliated colleges in view of the fact that about 80% of the student population receive education in the colleges.
The Osmania University therefore approved the establishment of the College Development Council and makes appointment of a senior faculty member to the position of Dean, College Development Council.
Government Colleges
The colleges under second category are those which are administered directly by the State Government. The administrative and financial management of these colleges is the concern of the Government. All academic matters including course design and curricula development, student evaluation, staff development and training are the responsibility of the University. The University has the responsibility of maintaining academic standards in these colleges through close monitoring and periodic academic audits. There are 42 such colleges in this category.
Private Colleges
The third category of the colleges are those which are in the domain of private management. The administrative and financial responsibility of these colleges rests with these private managements. Often, the State Government exercises its control in administrative and financial matters of these institutions. The role of the University is to ensure proper academic standards through regulation of course design, curricula development, evaluation of students, faculty development, staff recruitment and training and the periodic assessment of institutional performance. There are 458 colleges in this category.
Osmania University Admissions
The Directorate of Admissions of Osmania University was established by the University in the year 2000 with an aim of making centralized admissions to various courses offered by the University in a systematic, transparent, objective and student friendly manner. It is in these lines that the Directorate has been carrying out the task of admission process to various courses offered by the University and its affiliating institutions since 2000-2001 academic year. The Office of the Directorate of Admissions is headed by the Director and supported by the Joint Directors along with other supporting staff.
Activities of Directorate of Admissions
- Issue of Notifications: The Directorate of Admissions issues notification for entrance and admission into various P.G. and P.G. Diploma courses, generally, during the first week of April every year. The notifications for other courses such as M.Phil, B.Ed. (Distance Mode), etc., will be issued as and when the University notifies them.
- Entrance Examinations: Conducts entrance examinations to various P.G. and P.G. Diploma courses in first / second week of June and after evaluation declare the results along with a rank wise merit list.
- Counselling: Admissions to P.G. and P.G. Diploma courses offered by various University constituent and affiliated colleges will be made through a centralized counselling process. The counselling process, in general, commences during the last week of June / first week of July every year.
- Approval of Admitted Candidates: Verifies the eligibility and approves the list of admitted candidates under Non Resident Indian (NRI) quota / Management Quota into M.A., M.Sc., M.B.A., M.C.A., B.Ed., LL.B., LL.M., Hotel Management, Hospital Management and Pharmacy courses offered by all private affiliating institutions of the Osmania University, including minority institutions.
Facilities provided by Osmania University
1. University Library
Established in 1918 along with the University, the Library shifted to the present building that was inaugurated by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the then President of India on 3rd August, 1963. The Library building is situated on the highest altitude of the University campus covering a floor area of 62,000 sq.ft. The Library holds nearly 500,000 books and over 6000 manuscripts including rare palm leave manuscripts. It subscribes to about 400 periodicals and learned journals in various subjects. The holding of the library includes nearly 58,000 bound volumes of journals, 3,858 Government documents, 272 files, 6428 manuscripts, 143 microfilms and 9 CD ROMS. The Library caters to the needs of Post-Graduate students, research scholars, faculty members, and other employees of the university who are enrolled as members and special members. It provides reference, selective dissemination of information, documentation and bibliographical assistance to its readers. Reprographic facilities are also available on payment including inter-library loan facility. The University Library coordinates a library system, which links the libraries in all the campus and constituent college libraries. The library brings out a monthly list of additions and conducts Book Exhibitions to celebrate appropriate occasions such as the United Nations Week, Literacy Day, etc.
A Competitive Examinations Reference Section has recently been added to the library to cater to the needs of the candidates preparing for various competitive examinations. The Vision Of Osmania University in the library has rare photographs of the previous Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Pro-Chancellors, Prof-Vice Chancellors, Plans of the campus buildings, Firman of Nizam VII and other official documents. It is a great attraction for the students and tourists who are interested in the past history of Osmania University.
2. Physical Education
The Department of Physical Education existed since the inception of Arts College. Earlier, Games and Sports activities were centralized for all the campus colleges. Since 1975, Arts College has been organizing Indoor Games such as Table Tennis, Carroms, Chess and Badminton, within the College Premises. For Outdoor games, the students use the facilities of the main Department of Physical Education, Osmania University.
3. National Service Scheme
The National Service Scheme will be in the forefront, when we consider the popular youth moments in the post independent India. However, it was in the year 1958, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru took initiative and advised the academicians to suggest the programme to involve student Youth in Social Service activities. Since then various committees were appointed, first a Committee was appointed under the chairmanship of Dr.C.D.Deshumkh to prepare a scheme for compulsory national service by students prior to their admission for degree courses. At the second stage Prof.K.G.Saiyidain had undertaken a study of National Service by student youth in several countries and he had recommended that the national service may be introduced on a Voluntary basis.
The Education Commission was appointed under the Chairmanship of Dr. B.S. Kothari, (1964) after a deep study, he recommended that students at all stages of education should be associated with some form of Social Service. This was taken into account by the State Education Ministers during their conference in April, 1967, and they recommended that at the University students could be permitted to Join the (NCC) the National Cadet Corps, which was already in existence on a Voluntary basis an alternative to NCC they could be adored in the form of a new programme that is National Service Scheme (NSS).
The Vice-chancellors conference was held in September 1967 and welcomed those recommendations and suggested a Special Committee of Vice-Chancellors should be set up to examine this proposal in details the details were examined and suggested to include into 4th five year plan under the Ministry of Education. The planning commission sanctioned of outlet of Rs. 5 Crore for introduction of NSS in selected Colleges and Universities. In the pursuance of these recommendations the NSS programme was started on 24th September, 1969, during the Mahatma Gandhiji Centenary years. Since Gandhiji had inspired the Youth to participate in the National Movement such as Non Cooperation, Civil disobedience and Quit India Movements for the Independence of India and for the Social upliftment of the downtrodden masses.
Then the Union Education Minister Dr.V.R.V.Rao, launched the NSS Programme in 37 Universities covering all the states initially 40,000 student volunteers were enrolled in this NSS Scheme. This scheme has tremendous effect upon the youth one ray of hope could be the proper utilization of youth power through NSS programmes in universities and colleges at present the scheme is extended to all the State and Universities in the country, Students, teachers, parents, guardians, persons in authority of government, Universities and Colleges and the people in general now realize the need and significance of NSS.
The National Service Scheme was started to establish a meaningful linkage between the Campus and the Community. Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, believed in ”Manava Seva ya Madhava Seva” Service to man is service to God, he had recognised that the country could not progress in a desired direction until the student youth, who are committed, sincere and dedicated to the nation were motivated to work for the upliftment of the villages/slums/ community. For Gandhiji the villages, where majority of the population lived, represent the country, i.e. India. Therefore, for the national reconstruction and national resurgence it was deemed fit that the student youth, teachers and intellectuals should be properly sensitized and utilized for strengthening the Indian Society, as a hole with particular emphasis on rural community, who are living in poverty, illiteracy, with social backwardness. Therefore, student youth, teachers and intellectuals are considered the three basic components of the National Service Scheme.
The cordial principal of the programme is that it is organized by the students themselves and both students and teachers through their combined participation in social service, get a development. Besides, the students particularly obtain work-experience which might help them to find avenues of Self-employment or employment in any organization at the end of their university career. The response of students to the scheme has been quite encouraging starting with an enrollment of 40,000 students in 1969, the coverage of NSS students increased.
4. Student Welfare Association
The Office of the Students’ Affairs Department is located in the Office of the Registrar, Osmania University and is headed by the Dean, Students Affairs. Its basic mandate is to look into the grievances of the students and help in redressing them. It also plays a pivotal role in organizing cultural and recreational activities of students. In case of any student requiring parental guidance, his/her parents will be informed accordingly. Youth Welfare Officers assist him. He can be contacted at any time by the students for help on academic, personal, health and cultural matters.
5. English Language Training Centre
It was established in 1988 with UGC assistance with the objective of imparting English Language skills .to university students and research scholars so as to enable them to pursue their specialization and research work more effectively through the medium of English. It is one of the sixteen centres granted by the UGC to sixteen prestigious universities of the country. Immediately after its inception, it was the recipient of ODA-British Council Key English Language Project (KELT) under which syllabus design, materials production and faculty training schemes were implemented. A number of Workshops have been organized on various aspects of English Language Teaching with experts drawn from U.K. and U.S.A. The Centre is conducting a number of courses for university students, research scholars and overseas students and as well as for the public as part of the University Extension Service. The Centre has also been offering need-based short-term courses for ICRISAT and other organizations and also consultancy services for affiliated colleges.
The Centre offers the following courses
- Special Courses in English (Preliminary and Advanced) for PG and Professional Course students of OU
- Proficiency Course (Preliminary and Advanced)
- A Certificate Course in English Teaching for Teachers
- An Intensive Bridge Course
- A Certificate Course in English for Research (CCER)
- A Certificate Course in Advanced Spoken English (CCAS)
Distance Mode Courses(The duration of the courses is 6 months and they are offered twice a year)
- A Certificate Course in Practical English (CCPE)
- A Certificate Course in English for Teachers (CCET)
- A Certificate Course in English for Employment (CCEE)
Objective
To make the students to participate in the development of the University and develop their career, personality & organizational skills through interactive programs with the faculty, administration and society.
Duties And Responsibilities Of The Students’ Affairs Department
1. Smooth Conduction of the Inter Collegiate Cultural Competition every year.
2. Prevention of ragging in the University through counseling senior students, helping the administration whenever necessary.
3. Suggesting the administration to improve the student amenities to improve their career and personality building.
4. Helping the administration in smooth conduct of student activities in the University.
5. Guiding the junior and needy students to improve their technical, organizational and managerial skills by organizing seminars / symposia / workshops etc.
6. Encouraging innovative and creative skills of the under graduate and post graduate students.
7. Any activity to improve the knowledge and skills of the University students.
8. Maintenance of the peace and harmony in the University and student community in particular.
Code Of Conduct For The Students
1. No candidate shall create mutual hatred or cause tension between different castes and communities, religious or linguistic or between any group(s) of students.
2. Candidates shall refrain from criticism of all aspects of private life not connected with the public activities of other candidates.
3. No candidate shall be permitted to carry procession or public meeting.
4. No candidate shall, nor shall his/her supporters, deface or cause any destruction to any property of the University.
5. All candidates shall be prohibited from indulging or abetting, all activities which are considered to be corrupt practices and offences.
6. In general, all candidates must obey the code of conduct of students.
6. Schedule Caste or Schedule Tribe Cell
The Osmania University with Potentional for Excellence with A+ Grade by NAAC and Ranked 23rd among 250 Universities in Asia by Times Magazine in 2017, which is having 8 Campus, 5 Constitutent Colleges and 721 Affiliated Colleges with 66 Academic Departments,52 Departments with 3.2 lakhs Students, 527 Teaching faculty and 1558 Non Teaching Staff among these the SC/ST s are 21%. The Primary Duty of Director to see effective implementation of rule of reservation roster system of teaching and non teaching employees and UG/PG Student Admissions of various courses in Osmania University, and it is also The moral duty of the director to look after the hostels , Scholarships, fellowships, Book facilities for the Students.
7. Infrastructure
The office of the Infrastructure was established in 1999 with the objective of filling the gap between the Campus and Constituent Colleges and various other departments of the University with respect to getting their colleges and departments fully equipped to meet the present day demands in the context of the computerization of administration.
Objectives
The main objective of Infrastructure is to provide services to both students and staff. The services include provision of internet to the entire campus, Computerization of various activities in the administration such as College Information, archival, etc. services also include providing telephone facility, intercom facility to all the units and to facilitate the procurement of various equipments, computers etc., to all the Colleges/departments including various sections of the Administrative building and implementation of automation in various sections of the Administrative Building, etc.
8. Seminar Halls
The auditorium was built in the early 70s and today it is a place for various cultural and academic events that are hosted by the university in the campus. Many a cultural event, that involves the participation of students and faculty of the University takes place in this auditorium. The Graduation Ceremony, which is an annual feature of the university, is invariably held here. The auditorium has been a regular venue for national and international seminars/lectures and many Nobel Laureates, who visited, gave lectures in this auditorium.
9. Guest House
The Guest House, situated behind the University’s Main Library building, has furnished single and double rooms for accommodating guests of the University. Three spacious dining halls and a very well furnished waiting hall make the Guest House a pleasant place to stay. Another attraction of the Guest House is the cuisine that is served which is typically Mughlai (traditional). Guests who have stayed at this Guest House, carry fond memories of the food served.
10. Faculty Club
Faculty Club was established in 1980 on a spacious tract of land that is surrounded by the staff quarters, hostels and playgrounds. The University swimming pool is close to the Club. Almost all the faculty members of the University are on its rolls and participate in the events held at the Club. The Club conducts Drawing and Music classes to the children and organises periodic cultural events. Osmania University is synonymous with Hyderabad City that provides for a wide spectrum of cultural interests. The Faculty Club is always bubbling with such activities. The Club provides excellent recreational facilities to the children with a wide choice of entertainment and indoor sports.
11. Central Facilities for Research and Development
Osmania University is one of the premier institutes in the country where research activity is given due recognition and encouragement. To strengthen the research activity in the university, in the year 2009, UGC has granted financial support under XI plan. With the help of this grant, the University established a Central Facilities for Research and Development in the campus to house facilities like Central Instrumentation Lab, Information Technology and Communication Lab etc. The Central Facilities for Research and Development building has spacious accomodation of 54000sft with all amenities including a ramp for physically challanged, OUCFRD offers sophisticated, high-tech instrumentation facilities under the supervision of its tech savvy trained staff to the Faculty, Scholars, Students of Osmania University and other Research Institutes/Industries by following the well laid down terms and conditions. At Central Facilities for Research and Development, academic activities like workshops, seminars, conferences, guest talks, popular lectures and ‘hands on’ experience training sessions to the users are also conducted regularly. Though entry to CFRD,OU is restricted to registered users, interested persons from the academic fraternity may visit Central Facilities for Research and Development, with prior permission from the Director.
12. Guest House
13. Campus Colleges
- University College of Arts & Social Sciences
- University College of Science
- University College of Law
- University College of Commerce & Business Management
- University College of Education
- University College of Engineering
- University College of Technology
- University College of Physical Education
Placements at Osmania University
The Directorate of Placement Services, Osmania University has been playing proactive role for the past several years in extending the placement & Training services. The Office of the Directorate of Placement Services always takes lead in identifying the needs of our students, designing capacity building activities, projecting their competencies to employers and providing a forum for placement activities in the Campus & Constituent Colleges. Basically this Office at the Campus & Constituent Colleges level works as a nodal agency for University to create an environment for the Placement activities in the respective colleges.
Contact Details of Osmania University
Address: Osmania University Main Road,
Amberpet, Hyderabad,
Telangana 500 007.
Website: www.osmania.ac.in
