
Higher education in Tripura had a late start. Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) College, the first degree college in the State, started functioning under the University of Calcutta only in 1947. Not that there was no attempt in the past in Princely Tripura to establish any higher educational institution.
As early as 1901, Radhakishore Manikya made [...]

The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University, Tripura was established under the provisions of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University, Tripura Act 2004 enacted by Legislative Assembly of Tripura State and notified vide Notification No F.2 (529)- DHE/UDCA/2003, dt. 15.06.2004 of Government of Tripura.
The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of [...]

The Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences was established in 1995. It is the first government-private initiative in the region.
SMU is recognized by the University Grants Commission and approved by the Govern- ment of India. Sikkim Manipal University offers quality education to the students from North and North Eastern parts of India.
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After partition of the country, the Punjab College of Engineering & Technology, Lahore (formerly known as the Maclagan Engineering College) of the pre-partitioned Punjab remained in Pakistan under the name of “East Punjab Engineering College”.
From December 1947, it functioned in the premises of the Thomson engineering College, Roorkee now known as Indian Institute of [...]

The PGIMER owes its inception to the vision of late Sardar Partap Singh Kairon, the then Chief Minister of Punjab and the distinguished medical educationists of the then combined state of Punjab, supported by the first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru who considered the institutions of scientific knowledge as temples of learning [...]

The Pondicherry University was established in October 1985 by the Government of India through an Act of Parliament. Being a Central University it is fully supported by the University Grants Commission. The campus is spread over 780 acres of land some of which is rolling down to the sea beach.
Besides having on-campus teaching and [...]

Panjab University has a long tradition of pursuing excellence in teaching and research in science and technology, humanities, social sciences, performing arts and sports. The University support excellence and innovation in academic programmes.
Promotes excellence in research, scholarship and teaching and is committed to attracting and supporting the best students and recruiting faculty who excel [...]

The North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (NERIST) was set up by the Government of India and its foundation stone was laid by Shri Giani Zail Singh, the then President of India, on 4th March, 1984.
The Institute was established as a unique institute of its kind in the country having non-conventional and innovative [...]

North-Eastern Hill University was set up by an Act of Parliament and notified on 19th July 1973. The objectives of the University, as laid down in the act, are “to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit; to pay special attention to [...]

“The essence of a university is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future – not simply or even primarily to the present. A university is not about results in the next quarter. It is not even about who a student has become by graduation.
It is about learning that mouls a [...]