Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

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{{Short description|Public university in Vadodara, Gujarat}}
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{{Infobox university
| name = The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
| image = Msu_baroda_logo.png
| motto =
| mottoeng = Love of beauty, Goodness and Intellectual Curiosity (Satyam Shivam Sundaram)
| established = {{start date|1881}}
| type = [[State University (India)|State university]]
| affiliation = U.G.C, N.A.A.C
| chancellor = Shubhangini Raje Gaekwad
| vice_chancellor = Prof. (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Srivastava
| students =
| undergrad =
| postgrad =
| city = [[Vadodara]]
| state = [[Gujarat]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = [[Urban area|Urban]]
| website = {{url|http://www.msubaroda.ac.in}}
| visitor =
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The '''Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda''', formerly '''Baroda College''', is a public university in the city of [[Vadodara]], in [[Gujarat]] state, [[India]]. Originally established as a college in 1881, it became a university in 1949 after the independence of the country. It was later renamed after its benefactor [[Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III]], the former ruler of [[Baroda State]].

The university offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs. It houses 89 departments spread over 6 campuses (2 rural and 4 urban) covering 275 acres of land.

==History==
{{See also|Baroda Group}}[[File:Sayajirao Gaekwad III.JPG|thumb|Statue of [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III]] in the university campus.|alt=]]
The university has its origins in the '''Baroda College''', established in 1881 by [[Baroda State]]. The main building, which houses the Faculty of Arts, was designed by [[Robert Chisholm (architect)|Robert Fellowes Chisholm]] in [[Indo-Saracenic architecture]] style, in a fusion of Indian and Byzantine arches and domes in brick and polychrome stone. The main dome on the convocation hall was modelled after the great dome of the [[Gol Gumbaz]] in [[Bijapur, Karnataka|Bijapur]].

[[Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda]] (1908–1968) (the last Maharaja of the erstwhile [[Baroda State]]) founded the university in 1949 on the wishes of his grandfather, [[Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III]] (1863–1939), and settled the "Sir Sayajirao Diamond Jubilee and Memorial Trust" which exists to date, catering to the education and other needs of the people of the former Baroda State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/founder.php|title=Founder of MSU|publisher=Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda website|access-date=16 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709023554/http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/founder.php|archive-date=9 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Faculties ==
===Faculty of Education and Psychology===
This faculty is established for the development of teacher who have a sense of child psychology. They can understand need of children, individual difference among children.

===Department of Education (CASE)===
This department founded as a teacher training college but in 1935 established as Department of Education. This department first of all awarded by the name of [[Center of Advance study in education Baroda]].

===Department of Psychology===

===Department of Educational Administration===

===Faculty of Science===
The old Baroda College founded in 1881 consisted of Arts and Science sections. The Faculty of Science started its independent existence in March 1951 with Dr C.S. Patel as its first dean. The Old Building which houses the Faculty of Science at present was completed in about 1934 in the reign of [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III]]. It is conspicuous by its small copper dome and is flanked on the west by the building of Faculty of Education and Psychology and on the east by the majestic building of the Old Baroda College, now the Faculty of Arts.<ref>http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/faculty.php?action=home&fac_id=3 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>

====Department of Physics====
The department, established in 1949, offers U.G., P.G., and Ph.D. programme and is a sponsored department of Science and Technology, Government of India under [[Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure|FIST programme]]. In M.Sc., students are offered Solid State Physics, Electronics and Communication, Nuclear Physics, and Molecular Spectroscopy as specialization. The department is also equipped by two of the oldest and famous observatories:
(i) Astronomical Observatory and (ii) Meteorological observatory.

Researchers are provided with advanced technologies including FTIR-4100 Spectrometer, Thermal Analyser (DSC), AFM, Workstations-4, Cluster Computing facility (Supercomputer), etc. which help them in researching on Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science, Experimental Nuclear Physics, Spectroscopy, Theoretical Particle Physics, and Astrophysics.<ref name="MSU Baroda Phy Dept">{{cite web|title= Physics Department |url=http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/faculty.php?fac_id=3&dep_id=34&action=departments }}</ref>

It is one of the oldest Physics departments in India, which adopted advanced curricula based on Courses viz, Berkeley Physics Course, Feynman Lecture Series, etc. under the leadership of S.K. Shah and H.S. Desai. Department has an active society, notably 'The Physical Society MSU Baroda'.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/ramakrishnan-bio.html|title=Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Biographical|website=www.nobelprize.org|access-date=20 September 2017}}</ref> Department of Condensed Matter Physics has been sponsored for researches in coordination with TIFR and BARC by DST-FIST as a major beneficiary. Department is indulged in a number of active researches with record endowments. The university holds the accolade of having worldwide spread Departmental alumni, including Nobel Laureate cum President, [[Royal Society]], [[Venkatraman Ramakrishnan]].

====Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology====
[[File:Dr Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology.jpg|thumb|right|Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology]]

Established in 2012, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology is an interdisciplinary research institute that integrates several departments of the Faculty of Science. The centre was established with the financial support of the Government of Gujarat. The institute started a 5-year Integrated M.Sc. programme in Cell and Molecular Biology in 2012. The course offers 30 seats each year, which are filled through a common entrance exam.<ref>http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/faculty.php?fac_id=3&dep_id=179&action=departments {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>

====Department of Computer Applications====
Formally established in 2013, the department offers three programmes, [[Bachelor of Computer Applications]] (BCA), [[M.Sc.]] in Information Technologies and [[M.Sc.]] in Software Technologies.<ref>{{cite web|title=FACULTY OF SCIENCE {{!}} Department of Computer Applications {{!}} MSU Baroda|url=http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/faculty.php?fac_id=3&dep_id=37&action=departments|website=www.msubaroda.ac.in|access-date=9 September 2017}}</ref>

====Department of Biochemistry====
The Department of Biochemistry was established in 1955, under the Chemistry Department, and was headed by Prof. C.V. Ramakrishnan, father of 2009 Chemistry Nobel Laureate [[Venkatraman Ramakrishnan]]). The department has a Center for Nutritional Studies.
The department was awarded an Excellent status in 2006 by FIST, a Government of India accreditation agency. It imparts master's degree courses in Biochemistry & Medical Biotechnology with a force of around 50 research students.

The Biochemistry Department offers courses in [[enzymology]], [[genetics]], [[molecular biology]], [[neuroscience]], plant biochemistry, [[endocrinology]], clinical biochemistry among others. The department conducts research in areas including bacterial cooperation, [[polyketide]] synthase clusture, antibiotic resistance, [[Apoptosis]], phosphate solubilisation, [[nitrogen fixation]], [[probiotics]], heavy metal [[toxicity]], [[diabetes]], prostate cancer, female infertility, [[endophytes]], magnetoliposomes, [[protein folding]], and [[vitiligo]].

The department was funded under the DST-FIST I programme under which it has the most worst equipment that has been purchased and infrastructure facilities strengthened. The department has received support from UGC-DRS, UGC-DSA, and COSIST programs.

The department has a strong base in Microbial technology and the main focus of the program is on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology, and other areas allied to Microbiology and Biotechnology. Basic training is given in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Genetic Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, and some aspects of Biophysics, Biostatistics, Environmental Biology.

The areas of research in which the department is engaged are:
*Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
*Microbiology
*Bioprocess Engineering
*Immunology, Biophysics

Courses offered:<ref>http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/faculty.php?fac_id=3&action=departments&sub_action=Department%20of%20Bio-Chemistry&dep_id=27 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>

– Doctoral program
– Master of Science in Biochemistry (M.Sc., 20 regular, 5 high payment seats)
– Master of Science in Medical Biotechnology (M.Sc., High payment course, 10 seats)
– Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Biochemistry (PGDAB, 20 seats)

===Faculty of Performing Arts===
[[File:Fpart.jpg|thumb|Faculty of Performing Arts building]]

====Classical music====
Maharaja Sayajirao Rao Gaekwad was a patron of Indian classical music. Ustad Moula Bux founded the Academy of Indian Music under the patronage of Sayajirao, on 26 February 1886. This academy later became the Music College and is now the Faculty of Performing Arts of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of [[Baroda]]. Apart from [[Moula Bux]], Sayajirao's Court boasted of artists like Ustad [[Inayat Khan]] and legendary Agra Gharana Aftaab e Mousiqui (Sun of Music) Ustad Faiyyaz Khansaheb

After educationist Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande's music curriculum was introduced at the college, Gayanacharya Madhusudan Joshi became the first recipient of a diploma in Music (1932) in the history of music education in India.

====Dance====
The MSU started the first dance programme in India in 1950.

In 1880, the Maharani Kanta Ben of Tanjore was married to Baroda's Maharaja Sayajirao III Gopalrao Gaekwad, a prince who established the Baroda College as one of his first public acts. It was later absorbed into the university that bears his name. Chimnabai I was knowledgeable in Bharatanatyam and Carnatic music and brought a troupe with her: two dancers, two nattuvanars (leaders of Bharatanatyam concerts), and two teachers.<ref>Khandwani 2002</ref> Others followed: Nattuvanar Appaswamy and his dancer wife Kantimati, who had studied with Kannusamy and Vadively, two members of the Tanjore Quartet. After Appaswamy's death in 1939, Kantimati and their son, Kubernath, left to teach in Lucknow and worked in film in South India until Maharaja Pratap Singhrao Gaekwad called the Tanjorkars family back to Baroda in 1949, to teach in the music department in the Palace Kalavan which was later absorbed into MSU.<ref>Gastonn 1996: 158–160.</ref>

===Faculty of Arts===
{{Main|University of Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts}}
[[Image:Maharaja Sayajirao University.jpg|thumb|Faculty of Arts Dome, designed by Robert Fellowes Chisholm (1840–1915) in [[Indo-Saracenic]] style, modelled on [[Gol Gumbaz]]<ref name="br">{{cite news|url=http://newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/tech/article321372.ece?service=print|title=Vishal Sikka, the son of a railway employee, has BE in Computer Science from Maharaja Sayajirao University|newspaper=[[The New Indian Express]]|access-date=19 Feb 2012}}</ref>]]
The Faculty of Arts building is known for its Gumbaz (The Dome) which has been modelled on the ‘Gol Gumbaz’ of Bijapur and has often been rated as the finest dome for Educational Institutions in India.<ref>{{cite web |title=138-year-old landmark: Baroda dome beats Gol Gumbaz in aesthetics |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/138-yr-old-landmark/articleshow/68247425.cms |website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com |publisher=timesofindia.indiatimes.com |access-date=10 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Termites hit century-old Arts, Technology faculty buildings in MSU, Baroda |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/termites-hit-centuryold-arts-technology-faculty-buildings-in-msu/487461/ |website=indianexpress.com |publisher=indianexpress.com |access-date=10 March 2019}}</ref>

====Departments====
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* Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
* Department of Anthropology
* Department of Arabic
* Department of Canadian Studies
* Department of Economics
* Department of English (The oldest in Gujarat)
* Department of French
* Department of Geography
* Department of German
* Department of Gujarati
* Department of Hindi
* Department of History
* Department of International Relation
* Department of Library & Information Science
* Department of Linguistics
* Department of Marathi
* Department of Persian
* Department of Philosophy
* Department of Political Science
* Department of Pali
* Department of Prakrit
* Department of Russian
* Department of Sanskrit
* Department of Sindhi
* Department of Sociology
* Department of Traditional Sanskrit Studies
* Department of Urdu
* Department of Management Studies
* Department of Education and Psychology
{{div col end}}

===Faculty of Management Studies===
Popularly known as FMS Baroda, was established in 1984 in the city of [[Vadodara]].<ref name=fmsgeneral>{{cite web|url=http://www.fmsbaroda.org|title=FMS-Baroda website|access-date=26 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810172003/http://www.fmsbaroda.org/|archive-date=10 August 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> The courses are approved by [[All India Council for Technical Education]].<ref name=aicte>{{cite web|url=http://www.aicte.ernet.in/ERNET/MBA/Gujarat-MBA.doc|title=AICTE approved MBA colleges of Gujarat}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
The institute offers the specialization in [[Marketing]], [[Finance]], [[Human Resource Management]] and [[Information Systems]].<ref name=indianmba/> During 1995, it increased its intake from 30 to 40 for 2-year full-time (regular) [[MBA]], and in 1997 introduced a 3-Year MBA Evening Programme.<ref name=indianmba>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianmba.com/gujarat/GU9/gu9.html|title=M.S. Patel Institute of Management Studies, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), The M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara|website=www.indianmba.com|access-date=11 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507093045/http://www.indianmba.com/gujarat/GU9/gu9.html|archive-date=7 May 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=fmsdetails>{{cite web|url=http://www.fmsbaroda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101&Itemid=54|title=FMS-Baroda B-School profile|access-date=26 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090812081720/http://www.fmsbaroda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101&Itemid=54|archive-date=12 August 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Faculty of Medicine ===
The [[Baroda Medical College]] serves as the Faculty of Medicine. Attached with the Sir Sayajirao General (SSG) Hospital, Faculty of Medicine is considered amongst the top Medical Colleges of Gujarat. Started in 1949,today it has a batch of 250 MBBS Students per year and more than 400+ Post graduate students in various MD & MS Residency programmes. GMERS Medical College & Hospital, Gotri has also been given affiliation of Faculty of Medicine, MSUB

===Faculty of Pharmacy===
{{Infobox India university ranking
| type = University
| NIRF_P_2020 = 14
| QS_BRICS_2019 = 301-350
| QS_A_2020 = 301-350
| QS_INDIA_2020 = 76-80
| THE_W_2020 = 1001+
| THES_A_2020 = 401+
}}
The Faculty of Pharmacy was established in 2015. Prior to that, it was a department under the Faculty of Technology and Engineering.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculty of Pharmacy|url=http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/faculty.php?action=home&fac_id=30|website=www.msubaroda.ac.in|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> The faculty was ranked 14 in India by the [[National Institutional Ranking Framework]] (NIRF) pharmacy ranking in 2020.<ref name=Rankings_NIRF_P_2020 />
Prof M R Yadav is the founder dean of Faculty of Pharmacy.

== Library ==
The Hansa Mehta Library was established in 1950.

==Oriental Institute==
The institute was established in Baroda on 1 September 1927. It operated from the Central Library before it was shifted to a separate building near the palace.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-28/vadodara/28106383_1_maharaja-ranjitsinh-gaekwad-erstwhile-baroda-state-oriental-institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103182251/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-28/vadodara/28106383_1_maharaja-ranjitsinh-gaekwad-erstwhile-baroda-state-oriental-institute|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|title=A bit of Baroda in Mysore: Road in Sayajirao's name main market|date=28 December 2009}}</ref> It is known for the seven volumes of the critical edition of ''[[Ramayana]]'' that it published between 1951 and 1975, a part of a 25-year project sponsored by the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] (UGC). The text was later the reference source for ''[[Ramayan (1987 TV series)|Ramayan]]'', the popular TV series by [[Ramanand Sagar]] that originally ran in 1987–88.

One of the oldest manuscripts preserved at the institute is ''Ayodhya Mahatmya'', written by Harishankar in 1656 AD, part of the collection of over 10,000 manuscripts of [[Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III]], who first conceptualized the institute in 1893, inspired by the opening of the [[Oriental Research Institute Mysore]] in 1891, established by then [[Maharaja of Mysore]] [[Chamaraja Wodeyar]], and a close friend.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-06/vadodara/28272002_1_manuscript-ayodhya-verdict-saryu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103175743/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-06/vadodara/28272002_1_manuscript-ayodhya-verdict-saryu|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|title=Oriental Institute's journey to glory|date=6 October 2010}}</ref> A road was named after as [[Chamaraja Road, Vadodara|Chamaraja Road]] in [[Vadodara]] and [[Sayajirao Road]] in [[Mysore]] to enmark the friendship between [[Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III]] and [[Chamaraja Wodeyar]]. [[Chamaraja Road, Vadodara|Chamaraja Road]] starts from Eastern gate of [[Lakshmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara|Lakshmi Vilas Palace]] and has the prominent landmarks like [[Kirti Stambh, Vadodara|Kirti Stambh]], [[Khanderao Market]] and others before terminating near [[Bhagat Singh Chowk]].<ref>{{Cite web |agency=TNN|date=Apr 20, 2017 |title=Rajmahal Road to be renamed Chamaraja Road {{!}} Vadodara News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/rajmahal-road-to-be-renamed-chamaraja-road/articleshow/58269464.cms |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Prashant Rupera|date=Dec 28, 2009 |title=A bit of Baroda in Mysore: Road in Sayajirao's name main market {{!}} Vadodara News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/a-bit-of-baroda-in-mysore-road-in-sayajiraos-name-main-market/articleshow/5389215.cms |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Sachin Sharma|date=May 13, 2015 |title=Memory of Sayajis friend erased from citys face {{!}} Vadodara News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/memory-of-sayajis-friend-erased-from-citys-face/articleshow/47259736.cms |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref>

The Oriental Institute organizes seminars and conferences for research in Oriental studies.

== Student life ==
The university offers [[National Cadet Corps (India)|NCC]] and [[National Service Scheme|NSS]] on campus.

===Sayaji FM===
Sayaji FM is the online radio station of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/vadodara-with-space-on-campus-and-dedicated-interns-msus-official-sayaji-fm-targets-more-audience-maharaja-sayajirao-university-2840350/|title=Vadodara: With space on campus and dedicated interns, MSU's official Sayaji FM targets more audience|date=8 June 2016}}</ref> In June 2015, it was started by Yogesh Jangir, a former student of the university.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

==Notable people==
{{main|List of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda people}}

=== Notable alumni ===
{{more citations needed section|date=April 2021}}
* [[Venkatraman Ramakrishnan]]
* [[T. V. Santhosh]]
* [[Dadasaheb Phalke]]
* [[Sam Pitroda]]
* [[Vinoba Bhave]]
* [[Hemlata Talesra]]
* [[Rang Avadhoot]]
* [[Manan Desai]]
* [[Ajay Bhatt]]
* [[Reetika Khera]]<ref>http://hss.iitd.ac.in/faculty/reetika-khera</ref>
*[[Vijay Bhatkar]]
* [[Prateek Sharma (Gastroenterologist)|Prateek Sharma]]
*[[Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha]]
*[[Shrenu Parikh]]
* Professor Sudhirkumar Barai , Director BITS Pilani

=== Faculty ===
* [[M. N. Srinivas]]
* [[Rajni Kothari]]
* [[Jyotsna Bhatt]]<ref name="ex">{{Cite web|date=2020-07-11|title=Renowned ceramic artist Jyotsna Bhatt passed away|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/jyotsna-bhatt-dead-ceramic-artist-6501111/|access-date=2020-07-12|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

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