The Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji Bhavnagar University, formerly known as just the Bhavnagar University, is an autonomous, public university located in the city of Bhavnagar in the western State of Gujarat, India. The University was established on the 24th of May 1979 on a large swath of 198 acre land. The university has various research and teaching programs in the fields of Commerce, Arts, Engineering, Science, Medicine, Rural Studies, Management and Law. Additionally the University has 18 postgraduate centers, 22 departments and 4 recognized research centres and institutes. The University has over 83 colleges affiliated to it from diverse fields in Science, Commerce, Arts, Law, Education, Management, Engineering, Medical and Rural disciplines.
The University carries out various research activities in the fields of History, Social Sciences, History, Marine Ecology, Nanotechnology, Management and Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Rights. The University also has many Centres for Excellence which perform various consultancy and research services namely, Centre for Excellence in Nanotechnology, Remedial Coaching Centre for ST SC and Minority, Gandhian Study Center, ICT and ELT, Ocean Science and Technology Cell for Western Coast, Industry Linkage Cell, Entrepreneurship Development Cell and the Corporate Services Academy. The Various departments of the University include, the Departments of Anthropology, Business Administration, Astronomy, Commerce, Energy Science, Environmental Science, English, Computer Science and Application, Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Linguistics, Geology, Social Work, Bioinformatics, Education, Library and Information Science, Geography, Linguistics, History, Physics, Chemistry, Political Science and Mathematics among many others. The University also has an online distance learning programme.
Bhavnagar University is a government located at in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, India.
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