About

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJPRU) is one of the largest provincial institutions in the state of Uttar Pradesh, proudly enrolling more than 500,000 young minds in the art and science of knowledge. It also serves as a campus jurisdiction. It is a thrivingly experienced, ardent, and dynamic quadragenarian refuge of higher education under the legislative sovereignty of the state government and drawing its jurisdictional and academic independence from the UP Universities Act, 1973. It is a generation three university when viewed in the context of the historical development of universities in pre- and post-colonial India, with the universities founded in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century (i.e., between 1857 and 1947) being, to put it another way, the generation first and second in that order.

MJPRU is a country-sized educational institution in terms of both territory and population, with a geographical jurisdiction spanning nine districts in Western Uttar Pradesh, covering an area of 31,287 square kilometres, and housing more than thirty million people (2,74,35,583 as of the 2011 census). Geographically, it could boast of having a rank of 140, trailing 95 of the 234 nations in the globe because it was larger than, for example, Belgium, Lesotho, Armenia, Albania, Israel, Fiji, Kuwait, etc. Additionally, the population of the MJPRU region is significantly larger than that of North Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and approximately a hundred other countries, or about equivalent to Mozambique, Yemen, Cameroon, etc.

According to internal statistics, the territory under the jurisdiction of the MJPRU accounts for approximately 1% of the country's land area and more than 2% of India's population, or a healthy 13% of both the area and the state's population of Uttar Pradesh.

MJPRU is currently (academic session 2020-21)maintaining Campus Faculties and Departments and exercising its jurisdiction over 563 affiliated colleges that pursue undergraduate degrees. This is in addition to its administrative headquarter, which is well-designed to accommodate all the necessary - but the necessary and desirable ones-facilities like a gigantic administrative block, teaching-infrastructure, library and laboratory structures,auxiliary facilities, and a residential area as well. By having practically all of the major and minor streams of global knowledge, subjects, disciplines, and courses or programmes either on its Campus or on the grounds of the institutions affiliated with it, it is a true multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary university.

It is remarkable to note that MJPRU enrolled a massive amount of students and scholars figuring, for instance, to 5,56,876 during the academic session 2020-21 only. Out of this total student-population of 5,56,876 the Campus-Departments of the university hosted 5,529 brilliant enrolments (ten per cent of the total) under different subject streams at post-graduate, under-graduate, and diploma level courses, the sub-divisions being 1,931 PG, 3,580 UG, and 18 diploma students; whereas the colleges affiliated to the university taught and trained a noticeable total of 5,51,347 young minds (a whopping ninety per cent of the total student-population), branched into several Faculties and numerous subjects, inter alia, ranging from social sciences, liberal arts, law, languages, commerce, and management to physical and live sciences, engineering and technology, and medical and allied sciences, the course-level segmentation yielding 87,216; 4,63,816; and 315 student-enrolments under the post-graduate, under-graduate, and diploma level courses, respectively. Moreover, as an integral part of its teaching and research activities, scholars have so far been awarded PhD degree in the concerned subjects while research-scholars spread across different departments and colleges are actively pursuing the research work related to the same.