Somaiya Vidyavihar

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Somaiya Vidyavihar
Location

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400077

India
Information
Established1959; 65 years ago (1959)
FounderShri K.J. Somaiya
Area60 acres (24 ha)
Websitesomaiya.edu

Somaiya Vidyavihar is a private university located in the Vidyavihar suburb of Mumbai. It is the second largest campus in Mumbai, superseded only by the Powai campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay). It is approximately of 60 acres (24 ha).

The entire campus is owned and operated by the 'Somaiya Trust'. It is also has a sister campus in Sion, nother suburb of Mumbai, called Somaiya Ayurvihar.[1]

Colleges[edit]

It hosts a number of reputed educational institutions with country-wide recognition.

Some of the same are:

Apart from the above-mentioned colleges it has 45 different courses it offers to students, it also hosts The Somaiya School, a Central Board of Secondary Education affiliated school operated by the same educational trust. The campus also facilitates hostels for both boys and girls.

Somaiya Vidyavihar University[edit]

On 26 August 2019, Somaiya Vidyavihar announced that it would be "the first ever private university in Mumbai." and that apart from K.J. Somaiya College of Arts & Commerce, K.J. Somaiya College of Science & Commerce & S.K. Somaiya College of Arts, Science & Commerce, all the others would be included in the newly formed private university while these would retain their current status with the University of Mumbai.[2]

This means that K.J. Somaiya College of Arts & Commerce will still enjoy the 'autonomous' status which it has been granted earlier. While the other institutes, S.K. Somaiya College of Arts, Science & Commerce and K.J. Somaiya College of Science & Commerce, will remain as University of Mumbai affiliated institutes. These above mentioned chose to remain in the University of Mumbai because of the aid that they receive from it.

Somaiya vidyavihar is an educational trust that has built educational institutions in Mumbai, Rural Maharashtra and Karnataka

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "Somaiya Ayurvihar Official Website". Somaiya Ayurvihar.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Somaiya Vidyavihar University: Mumbai's 1st Private University".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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