Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University (BHU), founded in 1916 by the visionary Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, is one of the largest residential universities in Asia and a flagship institution of Indian higher education. Accredited by NAAC with the prestigious A++ grade and consistently ranked around 4th to 6th in the NIRF university rankings, BHU is a symbol of academic excellence, cultural richness and national pride. Spread over a vast 1,300-acre campus on the banks of the sacred Ganga in Varanasi, the university is home to more than 30,000 students, 6 institutes, 14 faculties, over 140 departments and three constituent schools. The university encompasses the Institute of Technology (IT-BHU, now a separate IIT), the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Commerce, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Science and much more. BHU has been a crucible for India's intellectual and cultural renaissance, nurturing Nobel Laureates, Bharat Ratna awardees, Supreme Court judges, leading scientists, artists, diplomats and heads of state among its alumni. The Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Sciences faculty is unique in India for its depth of classical scholarship integrated with modern academic rigour. Research at BHU spans advanced areas including cancer biology, nanotechnology, ancient Indian history and archaeology, Ganges ecology, Sanskrit computational linguistics and Ayurvedic pharmacology. The university hosts premier research facilities including a cyclotron centre, an astronomical observatory, a medical college with a 2,700-bed hospital and extensive fine arts studios. Its inter-disciplinary nature — combining sciences, humanities, arts and professional disciplines on a single campus — makes BHU an unparalleled intellectual ecosystem in India.