Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

{{Short description|State university in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use Indian English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox university | name = Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University | motto = {{IAST3|Aaroh Tamso Jyoti}} | mottoeng = "From darkness, lead us to light" | established = {{Start date and age|df=yes|paren=yes|br=yes|1966|2|9}} | chancellor = Governor of Uttar Pradesh | vice_chancellor = Vinay Kumar Pathak | city = Kalyanpur, Kanpur | state = Uttar Pradesh | country = India | free_label = | free = | type = State University | campus = Urban 264 acres | nickname = | affiliations = UGC | former_name = Kanpur University | website = {{URL|http://csjmu.ac.in/}} | logo = | image = Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University logo.png | image_size = 200px | coor = {{Coord|26.4983|N|80.2658|E|type:edu_region:IN-UP|display=inline,title}} }} thumb|Aerial view of Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University Campus '''Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University''' ('''CSJMU'''), formerly '''Kanpur University'''<ref>{{cite news |author=Isha Jain |date=2025-09-08 |title=LU & CSJMU ink pact with govt for child, women empowerment |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/lu-csjmu-ink-pact-with-govt-for-child-women-empowerment/articleshow/123752630.cms|location=Lucknow |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. |access-date=2026-02-01}} </ref>, is a public state collegiate university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is administered under the state legislature of the government of Uttar Pradesh.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

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==Administration== The administration is the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor and members of the executive council, the court and the academic council of the university.

The Kulpati (Vice-Chancellor) is a whole-time salaried officer of the university and is appointed by the chancellor from amongst the names submitted to him by a committee constituted in accordance with the provisions above U.P. Universities Act 1973.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kanpuruniversity.org/vice_chancellor.htm|title=Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur|website=www.kanpuruniversity.org|access-date=23 January 2011|archive-date=4 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604033940/http://www.kanpuruniversity.org/vice_chancellor.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Ranking== {{Infobox India university ranking  | NIRF_P_2024 = 101-125 }} In 2024, National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University among the top 101-125 pharmacy colleges/universities in India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MoE, National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) |url=https://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2024/PharmacyRanking150.html |access-date=5 June 2024 |website=www.nirfindia.org}}</ref>

==Colleges== The CSJMU is an affiliating university for all non-engineering, non-medical (including pharmacy), non-MBA degree, non-MCA degree offering colleges of Auraiya district, Etawah district, Farrukhabad district, Kannauj district, Kanpur Dehat district, Kanpur Nagar district and Unnao district from the year of 2020. Notable affiliated colleges include DAV College, Kanpur, Vikramajit Singh Sanatan Dharma College, Christ Church College, Kanpur, Pandit Prithi Nath College, and Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.patrika.com/kanpur-news/the-association-of-these-400-colleges-with-kanpur-university-ends-6432791/|title = कानपुर यूनिवर्सिटी से इन 400 कालेजों की संबद्धता खत्म | the association of these 400 colleges with Kanpur University ends|date = October 2020}}</ref>

===Brahmanand College Kanpur=== '''Brahmanand College Kanpur''' (B N D College) is an affiliated college of the university in Kanpur.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://uphed.up.nic.in/tclist.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=25 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028120409/http://uphed.up.nic.in/tclist.pdf |archive-date=28 October 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is located on Mall Road near Mare Company pul (originally called Muir Mill Company Bridge) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in India. It is a government aided college and affiliated to Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.csjmkanpuruniversity.in/KANPUR_NAGAR.php |title=Welcome to Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University Kanpur |access-date=25 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925052710/http://www.csjmkanpuruniversity.in/KANPUR_NAGAR.php |archive-date=25 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarship.up.nic.in/2010_11/SCH_STUD_INST.ASP?DCODE=34&cat=0&INST_CODE=B.N.D.COLLEGE%20KANPUR%20NAGAR |title=Scholarship Management System : Student List |website=scholarship.up.nic.in |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925135524/http://scholarship.up.nic.in/2010_11/SCH_STUD_INST.ASP?DCODE=34&cat=0&INST_CODE=B.N.D.COLLEGE%20KANPUR%20NAGAR |archive-date=25 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> BND College was established in the year 1961 by Kanyakubja Education Trust. Initially, it was known as 'Kanyakubja College' which was later renamed as Brahmanad College in the memory of its founder Pt. Brahmanand Mishra in the year 1968. Starting with just 49 Students, today the college is providing education to more than 4000 students. Its president is Onkar Nath Awasthi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brahmanandcollege.org.in/managemen_committee.html|title=Management Committee of Brahmanand College|website=Brahamandcollege.org.in}}</ref>

It's faculties include Science, Law and Commerce.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brahmanandcollege.org.in/Faculty%20Members%20Detail.pdf|title=Faculty Members Detail|website=Brahmanandcollege.org|accessdate=8 June 2018}}</ref>

===Formerly affiliated institutions=== The list of formerly affiliated notable college who now have university status or now affiliated with another university- *Harcourt Butler Technical University (1968 to 2000) *Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology (1968 to 1975) *Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences (2006 to 2016) *Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (1968 to 2021)

==Departments== The university has several departments, including:

===University Institute of Engineering and Technology=== thumb|right|Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry The '''University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET)''', also known as the '''School of Engineering and Technology''', is an engineering and technology institute in Kanpur. Founded in '''1996''' (formerly known as the '''Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur'''), it is now a constituent department of '''CSJMU'''.

==Notable alumni== {{Main|:Category:Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University alumni}}

===Government and politics=== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *Ram Nath Kovind, 14th President of India<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ram-Nath-Kovind|title=Ram Nath Kovind|date=4 April 2018|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica|access-date=1 August 2019}}</ref> *Harsh Vardhan, ex-Minister of Science and Technology, Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Earth Sciences, attended Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery *Gopal Khanna, 5th director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality *Shivpal Singh Yadav, MLA and former Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government *Anupriya Patel, MP & former State Minister in Government of India *Ram Gopal Yadav, MP *Naresh Uttam Patel, MLC and state president of Samajwadi Party (Uttar Pradesh) *Lalji Verma, MLA<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://myneta.info/uttarpradesh2017/candidate.php?candidate_id=4380|title = Lal Ji Verma(BSP Expels MLA):Constituency- KATEHARI(AMBEDKAR NAGAR) - Affidavit Information of Candidate}}</ref> *Nafees Ahmad, MLA *Harvindar Kumar Sahani, MLA *Sarita Bhadauria, MLA *Adesh Kumar Gupta, state president of Bhartiya Janta Party (Delhi) *Sone Lal Patel, founder of Apna Dal *Subhashini Ali, former MP and Polit Beuro member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) *Annu Tandon, former MP *Premdas Katheria, former MP *Sushila Saroj, former MP *Ashok Kumar Doharey, former MP *Arvind Pratap, former MLC {{div col end}}

===Academics=== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *Renu Khator, chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the University of Houston<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cla.purdue.edu/alumni/OurAlumni/Profiles/Khator,_Renu.html|title=RENU KHATOR // Purdue College of Liberal Arts|last=Arts|first=College of Liberal|website=Purdue College of Liberal Arts|language=en|access-date=1 August 2019}}</ref> *Sarvagya Singh Katiyar, former vice-chancellor of Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. *Onkar Singh, vice-chancellor of Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University and founder vice-chancellor of Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology *Raj Kumar, director of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences and former vice-chancellor of Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences *Rakesh Bhatnagar, former vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University *Ghanshyam Swarup, Molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate *Hargovind Bhargava, Economist {{div col end}} * O. K. Harsh<ref>https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/browse?type=author&order=ASC&rpp=20&value=Harsh%2C+Om+Kumar</ref> (Dr. Om Kumar Harsh), former Pro-chancellor (addl), Vice-Chancellor of Glocal University, former Vice-Chancellor of Tantia University, and distinguished alumnus at the University of New England in 2018,<ref>https://www.une.edu.au/about-une/news-and-events/news/2018/11/distinguished-alumni-learnt-the-power-and-value-of-knowledge-at-une</ref> International Academic & Research Advisor of Brit College,<ref>https://bcet.uk/teachers</ref> BCET, London.

===Others=== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *Mohammad Kaif, cricketer (dropout)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/uttar-pradesh/allahabad/news/UP-ALAH-mohammad-kaif-birthday-special-story-5758507-PHO.html|title=इस ग्लैमरस लड़की का हसबैंड है ये क्रिकेटर, नहीं पूरा कर पाया ग्रैजुएशन|date=1 December 2017|website=Dainik Bhaskar}}</ref> *Anny Divya, pilot, attended Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Aviation *Veena Sahasrabuddhe, vocalist and composer of Hindustani classical music *Rahul Mishra, won the International Woolmark Prize in 2014 at Milan Fashion Week {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{official website|http://csjmu.ac.in/}} **[https://csjmu.ac.in/school-of-engineering-and-technology/ University Institute of Engineering and Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur] *[brahmanandcollege.org.in Brahmanand College Kanpur]

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