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Jawaharlal Nehru University

Young at thirty years, as universities go, what has lent strength and energy to Jawaharlal Nehru University is the vision that ideas are a field for adventure, experimentation and unceasing quest and diversity of opinions its chief premise. In the early 1970s, when JNU opened its doors to teachers and students, frontier disciplines and new perspectives on old disciplines were brought to the Indian university system. The excellent teacher-student ratio at 1:10, a mode of instruction which encouraged students to explore their own creativity instead of reproducing received knowledge, and an exclusively internal evaluation were a new experiment on the Indian academic landscape; these have stood the test of time. The very Nehru Ian objectives embedded in the founding of the University, national integration, social justice, secularism, the democratic way of life, international understanding and scientific approach to the problems of society   had built into it constant and energetic endeavor to renew knowledge through self-questioning. 

 

The JNU campus is a microcosm of the Indian nation, drawing students from every nook and corner of the country and from every group and stratum of society. To make sure that this is so, annual admission tests are simultaneously held at 37 centers spread across the length and breadth of the country, and special care is taken to draw students from the underprivileged castes and ethic groups by reserving 22.5 per cent of seats for them. Overseas students form some 10 percent of the annual intake. Students' hostels and blocks of faculty residences are interspersed with one another, underlining the vision of a large Indian family.
     Even as class room teaching and, work in the library and the laboratories have their share in the mode of instruction, personal interaction between students and teachers and among students themselves form an extremely important and lively medium of generation and transmission of knowledge. Sometimes high decibel disputes about the validity of theoretical premises or cultural substructures of a particular scientific or economic thesis do spill over from the class and hostel rooms onto the middle of the campus roads, at times causing traffic bottlenecks. Happily, these have never caused a road accident! The annual Students Union elections are conducted entirely by students. Fierce poster and cartoon wars, verbal duels and competitive yet peaceful group meetings are a viewers' delight during the elections. Violence is the only alien on the campus.
     Several Centers in these Schools have been declared by the UGC to be Centers of 'Excellence'. These are Center for Historical Studies, Center for the Study of Social Systems, Center for Political Studies, Center for Economic Studies and Planning, Center for the Study of Regional Development, all in the School of Social Sciences. In addition three Science Schools--School of Physical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Environmental Sciences have also received the UGC recognition as Centers for Excellence. 

 

 

 

JNU is a member of International Association of Universities. The web site of the association is http://www.unesco.org/
the activities of them  can be found on the internet site . JNU is also member of the association of Universities in developing Commonwealth countries and the site is http://www.acu.ac.uk/ . From the point of view of JNU, some of the specific areas of interest in social science are: Sustainable development, Environmental protection, Modernization, Culture: Domination and resistance, Human rights and Terrorism. The areas of interest in applied sciences would be Bio-engineering, computer tutoring Systems for teaching and machine-aided Translated Systems. The identification of these and other areas in future would depend upon corresponding interest in participating universities

 

 

  1. DONGGUK UNIVERSITY, KOREA 
  2. GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, KOREA

3.       UNIVERSITY OF INCHON, KOREA

4.       HANKUK UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES, KOREA 

5.       SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 

6.       UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, USA 

7.       UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG, Austria

 

8.       TANI UNIVERSITY, JAPAN

9.       TANI UNIVERSITY, JAPAN

10.   INTERNATIONAL  UNIVERSITY OF KYRGHYSTAN 

11.  UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, USA 

 

Afiliated Institutes within India

 

 

 

 

School of Information Technology 

 

The School of Information Technology would bring us to the forefront of the most modern way of dissemination of knowledge. IT facilities are already available at three locales on the Campus. These will constitute the nucleus of a very large programme which will create, impart training, and use IT networks to establish interlinkages first within JNU, then within the city’s institutions, and finally worldwide. The plan is to turn JNU into a virtual university thus providing and opening access to the academic resources world wide. 

 

 

The School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies

 

In major modern European languages French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Persian and Arabic-the school offers under graduate, post-graduate and research programmes focusing on languages, Literatures, translation, interpretation and culture studies.