The University of Kashmir is situated at Hazratbal. The three three adjacent campuses are: Amar Singh Bagh, Naseem Bagh and Mirza Bagh. Amar Singh Bagh is on the bank of Dal Lake. Naseem Bagh, or "the garden of breeze", was laid by Mughal Emperor Akbar. Mirza Bagh, now the "University Town", houses the staff quarters of the university which is on the bank of the famous Nageen Lake. The main campus at Hazratbal Srinagar houses postgraduate departments and research and other centres. The university has two satellite campuses in its territorial jurisdiction in South and North Kashmir.
History of University of Kashmir
Immediately after Independence in 1948 A.D. the state government established an institute for conduct of examinations with its headquarters at Srinagar. Then three postgraduate departments were established in 1956: English at Srinagar and Economics and Geology at Jammu. Thereafter it was named as the University of Jammu & Kashmir. In 1965 the university was divided into two sections: one for the Jammu and the other for the province of Kashmir.
By an Act of the state legislature that was published in the government Gazette on 10 November 1969, the University of Jammu & Kashmir was bifurcated into full-fledged universities: the University of Jammu and the University of Kashmir. Accordingly, the statues and regulations of the Jammu and Kashmir University Act, 1965 were modified.
Departments of University of Kashmir
Arts
* Department of Arabic
* Department of Urdu
* Department of English
* Department of Kashmiri
* Department of Foreign Languages
* Department of Library and Information Science
* Department of Linguistics
* Department of Persian
* Department of Sanskrit
* Department of Hindi
Social Science
* Department of Economics
* Department of History
* Department of Shah-i-Hamadan(A.R) Institute of Islamic Studies
* Media Education Research Centre (MERC)
* Department of Political Science
* Department of Sociology & Social Work
* Department of Psychology
* Department of Business & Financial Studies
* Department of Education
* Department of Physical Education
* Faculty of Engineering
* Department of Law
* Faculty of Music & Fine Arts
* Faculty of Oriental Learning
* Faculty of Biological Sciences
* Department of Botany
* Department of Biochemistry
* Department of Zoology
* Department of Biotechnology
* Department of Clinical Biochemistry
* Department of Chemistry
* Department of Environmental Science
* Department of Geology & Geophysics
* Department of Mathematics
* Department of Physics
* Department of Statistics
* Department of Geography & Regional Development
* Department of Computer Science
* Department of Food Science & Technology
