First Indian Varsity solely for social sciences and the humanities

Updated on: Monday, April 27, 2009

New Delhi: The Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD), will be country's first institution solely devoted to social sciences and humanities.

Humanities students have something to smile about from the coming August 2009 and Delhi will be home to India's first dedicated university for the humanities.

While AUD already started to take in students by offering a postgraduate diploma in development studies last year, three more postgraduate programmes are to start from this year.

The courses - an MA in development studies, psychology, and environment and development - will be followed by undergraduate and law programmes in 2010.

Vacating out of Dwarka at present, the varsity plans to shift to its new campus by 2011. The Varsity plans to showcase 15 interdisciplinary schools and centres, a community of 4,000 students, of which 1,200 will have hostel accommodation and a core of around 1,000 students who will pursue post graduation and research, AUD will have around 200 teachers and 50 professional staff at the heart of its operations, said Shyam Menon, Vice Chancellor AUD.

The varsity is also proposing a differential fee structure, so that no eligible student is denied a seat because of his/her inability to pay. This will be based on the per-capita operational cost of the programme, economic and social background of the student and expected level of employment after graduation.

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First Indian Varsity solely for social sciences and the humanities

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