Besides being the terribly initial public university in state, Patna University (PU) is that the seventh oldest public university of Asian nation, punctually recognized by the UGC. Established in 1917 throughout British Empire, this patna university has been drawing students and students from entire north-eastern and jap Asian nation, and additionally from countries abroad, for giving them extremely qualitative and innovative education and analysis facilities. the 2 campuses of this extremely acknowledged university area unit set at Ashok Rajpath and Saidpur. The university has ten constituent faculties and lots of attached faculties and establishments that cowl areas of study as well as law, education and teacher coaching, science, arts and humanities, commerce and management, medicine, and engineering and technology. Since the year 1974, this quick progressing and exciting university has additionally a board of directors of Distance Education (DDE), for providing distance learning courses at various educational levels.
Collectively, the faculty
departments of the patna university of Bihar, are the following at present:
- Faculty of SCIENCE
---- Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Mathematics,
Statistics, Geology
- Faculty of HUMANITIES
--- Departments of English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Maithili, Persian,
Philosophy, Arabic, Urdu
- Faculty of SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Departments of History, Psychology, Ancient Indian
History & Archaeology, Economics, Sociology, Personnel Management
& Industrial Relations, Geography, Political Science, Institute of
Public Administration, Institute of Psychological Research and Service
- Faculty of COMMERCE
--- Department of Applied Economics and Commerce
- Faculty of EDUCATION
---- Department of Education
- Faculty of LAW
--- Department of Law
- Faculty of FINE ARTS
---- Department of College of Arts & Craft
- Faculty of MEDICINE
---- BDS