Osmaina University, Hyderabad , Andhra pradesh South India. Accredited with A by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in 2001 The Osmania University, established in 1918, is the seventh oldest in the country, third oldest in South India and the first to be established in the princely State of Hyderabad. Though the need for a university for the Hyderabad State was felt, both by the intelligentsia and the people for a long time, the initiative came from a civil servant, Sir Akbar Hydari, who was then the Home Secretary to the State Government. Sir Akbar, in a Memorandum to the Education Minister in early 1917, emphasized the need to establish a University for Hyderabad with ‘Urdu’ as the medium of instruction “as it is the language of the widest currency in India, official language of the State, and it is a language which is understood by a vast majority of the population of the State.” He believed that higher education must have its foundations deep in the national consciousness.
The propitious moment, however, came a few months later on 26th April 1917 when a Firman was issued by the Nizam of Hyderabad for the establishment of the University.
One of the basic ideals of Osmania University is to achieve an intellectual synthesis of oriental and occidental learning of the best that has been thought of and said, both in the East and in the West. Further, it aims at a cultural synthesis (as reflected in its architectural variety), the development of a national ethos, and the creation of an academic and social environment in which ‘National Integration’ is not a nebulous idea but a tangible reality.
Osmania University has excellent in infrastructure and sprawling greenish area and its Indo-arabic(&Egypt style) Grand old buildings give a different aura around campus.
As all Government Universities it has some problems like Student unions of Active political parties
propagating their ideologies. If the student power is utilised in right direction they positively contribute to the Leadership of the Nation. Late Shri P.V.Narsimha Rao, the Ex-prime minister of
India was a student at Osmania university.
Osmania University’s website : https://osmania.ac.in, https://ou-mba.ac.in
Its Distance Educations division G.RAMIREDDY INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION offers various programmes from Diplomas to Post Graduation : https://oucde.ac.in/
Interested students can make use of this information.