Kumaun University

is a state university established in the year 1973 spread over an area of 160 acres? The University has 3 campuses. These campuses are D.S.B. Campus, Nainital, SSJ Campus, Almora, & Campus at Bhimtal. More than 65 affiliated colleges to the Kumaun University including 49 government colleges.

Kumaun University Highlights

Establish | Institute : 1973 | Public

Approved by: UGC

Affiliated to: Association of Indian University 

Entrance Exam: Kumaun University Entrance Exam

Courses offered: 336 courses across 13 streams

Popular Courses: BA, B.Sc, LLB, MA, M.Sc., MBA, Ph.D. 

Application Mode: Online

Admission Criteria: Merit-based | Entrance-based

Campus Area: 160 acres

Facilities: Hostel, Library, Medical 

Official Website :  www.Ku Nainital.ac.in

Kumaun University Courses

Kumaun University offers UG, PG, & Ph.D. courses offering specialization in several different subjects. 

Course Details

BA Duration : 3 years

Eligibility: 10 + 2 from a recognised board  minimum 50% aggregate

Subject: Drawing, Economics, English, Geography, Hindi, History, Home Science, Music, Political Science, Psychology, Sanskrit, Sociology, Statistics, IT

B.Sc Duration : 3 years

Eligibility : 10 + 2 from a recognised board with PCM/B

Subject: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Geology, Microbiology, Botany, Zoology, Forestry, Biotechnology, Statistics, IT

LLB Duration: 5 years

Eligibility: Bachelor's or Master's from a recognized university with a minimum 45 % aggregate

MA Duration: 2 years

Eligibility: Bachelor’s degree with relevant subject

Subject: English, Hindi, Sanskrit, History, Economics, Applied Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Statistics, Music, Home Science, Education, Yoga, and Alternative Therapy

M.Sc Duration: 2 years

Eligibility: Bachelor’s degree in Science relevant subject

Subject: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Geology, Microbiology, Botany, Zoology, Forestry, Biotechnology and Statistics

MBA Duration: 2 years

Eligibility: Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university

Subject: e-business, e-commerce, Tourism

Ph.D. Duration: 3-4 years

Eligibility: Master’s degree with minimum 55% aggregate from a recognized university

Subject: Law, Zoology, Physics, Mathematics, Geology, Forestry, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Botany, Information Technology, Commerce and Pharmacy

Kumaun University - Nainital, Fees and Eligibility

Course Fees Eligibility

MBA ?42,500 (1st Year Fees) Graduation

BBA ?55,000 (1st Year Fees) 10+2

Kumaun University 

Kumaun University which is a residential-cum-affiliating university, came into the existence in year 1973 by notification No. (10)/8651/15/75(85)/64 dated 23 November 1973 under the Act No. 10 of the State Legislature (U.P. State Universities Act, 1973 now adopted by the Uttarakhand State) with the merger of the two Government Colleges, D.S.B. Government P.G.College, Nainital and Almora Government P.G. College, Almora. These Constituent Colleges were later elevated to the status of University Campuses by Government order No. E-1861/GS dated on 14/15 March, 1994.

The University Grants Commission, New Delhi granted recognition to the University under section 12-B of the UGC Act, 1956 and its name appears at serial No. 177. Since then, Kumaun University is receiving its central assistance from the UGC. The academic wing of the University is spread over in its three campuses (D.S.B. Campus, Nainital, Campus, Almora and newly constructed Campus at Bhimtal) with an area of 5,31,373 sq.mt. (160 acres), the total built up area around being 3,00,000 sq. mt. 47 Government colleges under the administrative control of the State Government, 50 Private institute and 01 Government Aided College, spread over in the six districts of the  Kumaun region are affiliated with the University. It is the biggest State University of the Uttarakhand state which caters the need of about 1,50,000 candidates by providing a high quality of educational experience in the diverse learning environments and promoting the values and institutions of the democracy that prepares the candidates to lead lives of the personal integrity and the civic responsibility and service to in a global society.

The University is famous for building and promoting a system, which is accessible to the people of diversied faiths, races, creeds and the cultures and is striving hard for the excellence in the creation and dissemination of the knowledge, promoting the holistic development of the students and preparing them to lead lives of the personal integrity, civic responsibility and service to the society. Efforts to galvanize the academic fervor and creative instincts of the youth society coming from the socially and economically backward areas, to strengthen the interface of the academic with the government and industry and prepare the always undertaken. The University is committed to upgrade the academic standard of all its  three campuses, viz., DSB Campus, Nainital, SSJ Campus, Almora and Sir JC Bose Technical Campus, Bhimtal and 100 affiliated colleges and the institutes. For the last 3 years the University has made untiring efforts to develop the some well recognized departments of the scientic and the social research and these have been attracting faculty members as well as students from different parts of the country.

Kumaun University became an ideal for all the state universities before the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand for regulating the academic sessions, making education more participatory, creating the serious academic atmosphere, generating resources without taxing the candidates, maintaining strict discipline among the students and imposing code of conduct for teachers and this approach is still continuing. Keeping in view its overall achievements the University was accredited with 'A' Grade status in the year 2015 by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council that is  NAAC. The University has a regular membership of the Association of Indian Universities.

In order to cater the technical professional and vocational education, another campus of the University has been developed in the  Bhimtal. The University is imparting quality education and research

facilities in all eight faculties including:

Faculty of Arts (Drawing and Painting, Economics, English, Geography, Hindi, History, Home Science, Music, Political Science, Psychology, Sanskrit, Sociology and Tourism)

Faculty of Science (Botany, Forestry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology. Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Zoology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and G.I. Science)

Faculty of Commerce (B.Com., B.Com.(Hon.), M.Com.)

Faculty of Management (BBA, MBA, P.G. Diploma in Tourism, MBA in Tourism, MBA Executive, MBA Rural Management)

Faculty of Education (B. Ed. and M. Ed.)

Faculty of Law (LL.B. and LL.M.)

Faculty of Technology (B. Pharma, and M. Pharma.)

Faculty of Visual Arts (B.F.A. and M.F.A.)

Various self-finance courses are also being run by the University. 

An important collaborative international project that is “Landscape Asia – Transformation processes, Identity changes and the Socio-economic dynamics” which is part of ve Asian nations (India, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam and China) has been signed in the December 2013 between Department of the Geography, Kumaun University, Nainital and the University of Paris for the period of year 2014 to 2017 under the funding support from the Ministry of Research, Paris France. Space geology and the field geology based investigations are being conducted to monitor the ongoing surface deformations in the Uttarakhand Himalaya and adjoining Ganga Plain, funded by the DST, Govt. of the India and MoST, Govt. of Taiwan, under the prestigious Indo-Taiwan S and T Cooperation programme. Problem of the sequential growth of the Ladakh magmatic arc and the tectonic evolution of the Shyok Suture Zone of the Nubra valley that is northern Ladakh is being studied in the collaboration with Department of Earth and the Planetary Sciences, MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and the study of timing of the India-Asia collision and tectonic evolution of the pre-syn collision sedimentary basins in the Ladakh is underway in collaboration with the Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. On cave researches for the high resolution climatic changes in the Central Himalaya research works are being carried out.

physics, biology, materials and the engineering and build activities that develop interdisciplinary research and training, University has established a new Centre for the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to advance academic and technological research and development in nanoscience and nanotechnology. International Universities and the research institutions like Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Bridgepost, USA, Tindal Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.,  Nanyang Technical University, The University of Sydney, Konkuk University Seoul, Korea are collaborating in this project. The Production and the commercialization of graphene for advance nanomaterial based products (Collaboration with Industries) is the ultimate aim of this centre which will not only earn revenue for the University but for the state as well as country. Research programs in the Photodynamic therapy (PDT), Cancer Chemoprevention, Nanotechnology, Pharmacogenomics, Anti-Cancer Pharmaco-nutrition and other elds of the Cancer Biology at the Kumaun University Nainital are under process.

Resource Development Centre, to the University on the 10th of October, 2006 and it started functioning on the 12th of February, 2007. The UGC-HRDC, Kumaun University, Nainital shares the vision of making quality the dening element of the higher education in India. It has been envisaged that the College will engage not only in its primary task of training of the teachers of higher education institutions, but will also undertaken varied innovative extension activities in the academic arena. The UGC-HRDC Nainital, the first Human Resource Development Centre in the state of the Uttarakhand, is playing a make the HRDC a centre for the academic activity that could contribute to the development of the Himalayan region.

As per the University Grants Commission guidelines under its XIth Plan the Internal Quality Assurance Cell was constituted by the University on October 30, 2009 with a committee consisting of the expert members for guiding and quality enhancement in teaching, research, examination and the administrative activities of Kumaun University. Several benchmarks related to the quality teaching, research and administrative activities were provided to each unit of the University for the Implementation and the assessment on annual basis. Performance based appraisal system along with the academic performance indicators are being submitted annually by the teachers as per UGC regulations 2016, and these regulations are being strictly adhered to for appointments of the faculty members.

The Centre has been designed to act as a catalyst for promoting and strengthening the women's studies through seminars, teaching, research, curriculum, eld and the extension work, training and in continuing education. This Centre is fullling the national goals in the eld of the women empowerment

More and effective use of the Information and Communication Technology is being encouraged by the University invariably in all the works. All information related with the departments, admissions, rules and regulations of the University, advertisements, recruitments, results etc., are being uploaded and modied on the regular basis in the websites by newly established Digital Initiative Cell (DIC). DIC is also being used in improving the quality of the learning, curriculum enrichment, professional development of the teachers and resource sharing. Some departments have been granted the facility of the smart class rooms also.

National Cadet Corps – Army and Naval wings are doing commendable work for the overall development of the candidates. Recently Cadets of the Naval wing of DSB Campus secured first position in four activities at the Karwar, Karnataka and for the first time bagged top 10 position. NCC cadets are involved in the environmental upgradation, plantation, lake cleaning, campus cleaning and intoxication free society programmes, Digital India Imitative, Yoga, Swach Bharat Abhiyan and several other awareness campaigns. It is for the first time in year 2017 both the ANOs of the DSB Campus were awarded commendation certificates from the Chief Minister for their achievements.

NSS Units of both the campuses are actively engaged to render social services in the rural, urban and the slum areas. Intensive campaign for the environmental upgradation, intoxication-free society, avoiding female feticide, discipline drive among the candidates, blood and eye donation etc. has been emphasized during the camp hours.

The University has also instituted an independent Chair bearing the name “Mahadevi Verma Peeth”, at Umagarh, Ramgarh in the area of the language and literature research, fully funded by the Government of Uttarakhand. Ministry of Culture, Government of India sanctioned a Grant of Rs. 80 lakhs to the Mahadevi Verma Srijan Peeth, Kumaun University for the construction of Writer's Home in the name of the Amritlal Nagar under Amritlal Nagar Birth Centenary Commemoration and an amount of Rs. 40 lakhs has already being released as the first installment thereof.

In the Faculty of Law at the S.S.J. Campus, Almora “Free Legal Aid and Counselling Centre” has been established as per the provisions of the Bar Council of India. The Centre provides free and the fair legal advice to the poor and needy persons. Besides this, the faculty also ensures that its representation in the district level Legal Services Authority. The University Grants the Commission has sanctioned a Community College to the University.

University has produced Padama Vibhushan, Padma Shree, FNAs', Scientists, Social Scientists, Writers, Poets, Historians, IAS, IPS, IFS and other Central Services Officers, Armed Forces Officers, Provincial Civil Servants, MPs, MLAs and other renowned Politicians, Businessman, Corporates, Sports persons and many other successful candidates in different walks of their life. 

Kumaun University aspires to be a bold and dynamic institution, with a “no walls” culture and a spirit of enterprise which strives for the positive influence and impact through our education, research and the service. Every member of institute enjoys diverse opportunities for the intellectual, personal and the professional growth. We strive to achieve the international distinction for the creativity, innovation and excellence. All components of the University ensure that it fulfils all of the mandates laid down by the mission and the vision of the Institute. The university values candidates, faculty and staff from the different backgrounds and faith traditions and is committed to creating an atmosphere of the trust, safety and respect in a community characterised by a rich diversity of the people and ideas. It is committed to the dignity and fullest development of a whole person.

Our vision is to be established as a institute, known for the quality of our teaching and the learning, with a particular commitment to education for the employment. We want to be recognized as an university, known for the quality and range of our partnerships with the professions, business, industry and government. We seek to deliver the superior customer service to all the stakeholders with the goal of attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining a diverse workforce in a supportive work environment.

Recently, Kumaun University has secured 32nd rank in The India Today Group Survey of the Indian Universities. The QS BRICS Countries Survey of 9500 universities has also placed Kumaun University at rank of 301.