Shivaji University, Directorate of Distance Education, Kolhapur ::[DDE]

Shivaji University, set up in 1962, is named after the Great Maratha Warrior and author of the Maratha domain Chhatrapati Shivaji. It was introduced on eighteenth November, 1962 by Dr. Radhakrishnan, the then President of India. One of the significant destinations behind establishment of this University was to oblige the territorial requirements of South Maharashtra. The locale of the University is spread more than three areas viz. Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara with quality of around 3,00,000 understudies concentrating in 280 subsidiary schools and perceived establishments. This locale of Maharashtra gloats of rich and differed socio-social legacy. Under the inventive and socially reformist initiative of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, the regal leader of Kolhapur, the city had become toward the start of this century, a point of convergence of instructive open doors for all classes and networks of South-Western Maharashtra, and northern pieces of neighboring Karnataka. This is additionally place that is known for Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, who battled for taking instruction to the majority by his imaginative ‘Procure and Learn’ plot. At the point when the University was established by the Shivaji University Act of 1962, the targets set before the University included creation chances of advanced education open to provincial youth, directing key and applied exploration in the field of science and humanities to guarantee territorial development and improvement. In 1962 the University began working with 34 subsidiary schools and around 14000 understudies with 5 Post-graduate Departments on the grounds. Today the quantity of partnered schools has gone upto 280 and understudies quality upto 3,00,000 with 34 Postgraduate Departments nearby. The University confers instruction in 10 significant resources of Arts, Social Science, Science, Commerce, Education, Fine Arts, Law, Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Engineering and Technology.

College Ranking Details:

Establishment: Estd 1962

Ownership: Government

Approval: UGC

State: Maharashtra

City: Kolhapur

Contact Details:

Website: http://www.unishivaji.ac.in/distedu/
Phone 1: 2312693771
Phone 2: 2609104
Phone 3: 2693871
Phone 4: 2694171