North-Eastern Hill University

NEHU has two academic campuses, one at Mawkynroh-Umshing, Shillong, and another at Chasingre, Tura. Shillong is the headquarters of academic and administrative functions. The main campus is 1225 acres in area. It accommodates National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Sports Authority of India (SAI) and The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU).{{cite web |author= Press Information Bureau |url= http://dst.gov.in/whats_new/press-release09/host-university-nehu.htm |title= The Host University of Indian Science Congress: NEHU |work= dst.gov.in |date= 6 January 2006 |publisher= Department of Science and Technology |access-date= 30 July 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130202212532/http://dst.gov.in/whats_new/press-release09/host-university-nehu.htm |archive-date= 2 February 2013 |url-status= dead }}

List of Vice-Chancellors

The head of the administration is the vice-chancellor (VC), who is appointed by the visitor of the university, the President of India, for a five-year tenure. The Governor of Meghalaya is the chief rector. Under the VC are two pro-vice-chancellors, one for each of the two campuses, Tura and Shillong, and a Registrar.{{cite web|title=Officials|url=http://nehu.ac.in/Administration|website=nehu.ac.in|publisher=North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong|access-date=12 April 2018|language=en}} {{asof|2021|12|post=,}} the VC is Prabha Shankar Shukla.{{cite web|title=The Vice-Chancellor|url=http://nehu.ac.in/The-Vice-Chancellor|website=nehu.ac.in|publisher=North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong|access-date=12 April 2018|language=en}}

Initially, the academic departments and the administration of NEHU at Shillong functioned from three prime sites in the Shillong city; one from the former Maharaja of Mayurbhanj, the other from the Rani of Bijni and the third one from the Government of Meghalaya, popularly known as Horse-Shoe Building. The university now runs its central administration from its main campus in Mawkynroh-Umshing.

The university has the following schools, departments and centres of studies:{{cite web|title=Schools of study|url=http://nehu.ac.in/school|website=nehu.ac.in|access-date=12 April 2018}}

• School of Economics, Management etc.
• Agri-Business Management and Food Technology (Tura)
• Commerce Department
• Economics Department
• Journalism and Mass Communication
• Library & Information Science department
• Management Department (Tura)
• Tourism and Hotel Management Department
• School of Education
• Adult and Continuing Education Department
• Centre for Distance Education
• Centre for Science Education
• Education Department
• Education Department, Tura Campus
• School of Human & Environmental Sciences
• Anthropology Department
• Environmental Studies Department
• Geography Department
• Horticulture Department
• Rural Development and Agricultural Production
• School of Humanities
• English Department
• English Department (Tura Campus)
• Garo Department (Tura Campus)
• Hindi Department
• Khasi Department
• Linguistics Department
• Philosophy Department
• School of Life Sciences
• Biochemistry Department
• Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Department
• Botany Department
• Zoology Department
• School of Physical Sciences
• Chemistry Department
• Mathematics Department
• Physics Department
• Statistics Department
• School of Social Sciences
• Cultural & Creative Studies Department
• History & Archaeology Department, Tura Campus
• History Department
• Law Department
• Political Science Department
• Sociology Department
• School of Technology(SOT)
• Architecture Department
• Basic Sciences & Social Sciences Department
• Biomedical Engineering Department
• Computer Applications Department
• Electronics and Communication
• Energy Engineering Department
• Information Technology Department
• Nanotechnology Department

The jurisdiction of the university extended originally to the states of Meghalaya and Nagaland and the erstwhile Union Territories of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram.{{Cite web |title=About NEHU |url=https://nehu.ac.in/About-NEHU#:~:text=The%20jurisdiction%20of%20the%20University,of%20NEHU%20ceased%20over%20Nagaland. |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=nehu.ac.in |language=en}} With the establishment of the Nagaland University on 6 September 1994, the jurisdiction of NEHU ceased over Nagaland. Likewise with the establishment of the Mizoram University the jurisdiction of NEHU over Mizoram also ceased from June 2001. Arunachal Pradesh has its own university.{{Cite web |title=About NEHU |url=https://nehu.ac.in/About-NEHU |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=nehu.ac.in |language=en}}

The Central Library started in 1973 with a collection of 600 books. Its membership demographic includes university and college teachers, postgraduate and undergraduate honors students and members of the non-teaching staff. The permanent library at Shillong campus was funded by the Indian Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) and inaugurated in 2006. It now has a collection of over 230,000 books, 38,000 bound periodicals and it subscribes to 316 foreign and 366 Indian journals.{{cite web|author =NEHU Library |url= http://www.nehu.ac.in/library/index.html|title=Library | work=nehu.ac.in | access-date=30 July 2013}}

Readers can also have access to Thesis works compiled by PhD recipients over the years. The library is technologically endowed for ease and comfort of the students. A highly qualified library staff is available to assist students with any help they need.The library has a collection of rare works by leading Indian scholars some of which are not available anywhere, but certain libraries in the country.

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The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked North-Eastern Hill University 151-200 overall in India{{Cite web |title=NIRF 2024 Overall ranking |url=https://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2024/OverallRanking200.html}} and 101-150 among universities{{Cite web |title=NIRF 2024 University rank |url=https://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2024/UniversityRanking150.html}} in 2024.

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