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The University of Mumbai or the University of Bombay as it was earlier known as is one of the oldest universities in the country. In fact it is one of the three oldest universities of India to be precise and was established as long ago as 1857 – the same year that the sepoy

The building itself is in Gothic style with a high clock tower that is 260 feet high and at night when the lights come on it is quite a sight to behold with oriental figures and arches. The clock in its hey days used to chime the Auld Lang Syne and Rule Britannia, and Handel Symphony though today it makes the Big Ben kind of tunes every quarter hour.

A whole lot of history surrounds this prestigious university and after the Independence the governance is under the Bombay University Act of 1953. The University of Mumbai has two campuses with one being situated in a sprawling 230 acres of land. The second campus is much smaller and is located in 13 acres and together they makes up 1.25 million square feet of built-up area, 22 thousand sq. feet of class-rooms and 84 thousand sq feet of laboratory space. It has two post-graduate centers, 354 affiliated colleges and 36 Departments.

There has been a steady increase of undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning students within the last five years clocking 104 percent, 112 percent and 147 percent respectively – thereby proving the popularity of the University. Hostel facilities are available for students, both male and female separately at Church gate and at Vidyanagari campus. There are two Central Libraries in the campuses and they are both extensive in their stock of books and additional reading rooms are also available for students.

The University of Mumbai has just about every course a student may want to major in, be it Science, Commerce, Economics, Education, Sociology, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Dentistry, Medicine, Technology, Law, Music, Computer Science, Mathematics, Languages and even the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management all under its umbrella. The languages include Sanskrit, English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Kannada, Marathi, Sindhi, Gujarati, German and Russian.

Distance Education offered by the University of Mumbai is very popular and from the time it all began in 1971 the increase in students has zoomed to great proportions.  Printed study materials are available for 184 subjects in English and for selective ones in Marathi. The study material has been awarded 5 Star statuses by UGC and NACC and therefore is very helpful to the correspondence student.

The University of Mumbai has in 2005 taken a tough stand on girls wearing mini skirts in the campus. The Chancellor was of the opinion that banning mini skirts prevents rape; as expected this attracted a lot of ire from the students who felt banning minis skirts was not the answer to prevent rapes. The university therefore clearly takes its moral responsibilities seriously along with imparting top class education to its students.

Our present President of India Ms. Pratibha Patil is an alumnus of the University of Mumbai and recently inaugurated the Health Centre and FM Community Radio of the university. Students here can now keep fit and enjoy the FM radio community and make the best use of their time as students here. The University of Mumbai also keeps its sporting activity in high gear and is a major player in all the sporting events winning several championships over the years.

The University of Mumbai continues in its mission to provide degrees in graduate, post-graduate, professional and PhD levels in all faculties of education and has umpteen famous people as its alumni and continues to produce great leaders for our country.