Osmania University's College of Technology
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Motto in English
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Lead us from Darkness to Light |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1918 |
| Affiliation | UGC |
| Vice-Chancellor | S. Ramachandram |
| Location | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| University and college rankings | |
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| General – international | |
| Times (World) (2018) | 801-1000 |
| Times (BRICS) (2017) | 201-250 |
| Times (Asia) (2018) | 251-300 |
| General – India | |
| NIRF (Overall) (2018) | 45 |
| NIRF (Universities) (2018) | 28 |
| Engineering – India | |
| Outlook India (2017) | 23 |
| Law – India | |
| Outlook India (2017) | 10 |
| The Week (2017) | 26 |
Osmania University is a public state university located in Hyderabad, India, founded in 1918 with the help of chief architect of Mahbub Ali Khan – Nawab Sarwar Jung. It was established and named after the seventh and last Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan. It is the third oldest university in southern India, and the first to be established in the erstwhile princely State of Hyderabad. It is the first Indian university to have Urdu as a medium of instruction.
As of 2012, the university hosts 3,700 international students from more than 80 nations. The OU is one of the largest university systems in the Indian subcontinent with over 300,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges. It is particularly known for its faculty of Engineering and Technology, Law, Arts, Sciences, Commerce and Management departments. Osmania Medical College was once a part of the university.
In 1846, the Nizam Medical school was formed to teach Allopathic Medical science in the Urdu language to the native students of Hyderabad state,. In the year 1854, Darul-Uloom was formed as a formal primary educational institute, and the Nizam College and College of Law were initiated in the year 1887 and 1899. Nobel Laureate poet, Rabindranth Tagore observed:
I have long been waiting for the day when, freed from the shackles of a foreign language, our education becomes naturally accessible to all our people. It is a problem for the solution of which we look to our Native States, and it gives me great joy to know that your State proposes to found a University in which instructions are to be given through the medium of Urdu. It is needless to say that your scheme has my fullest appreciation..."
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