The university was established as the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875. It has three off-campus centres in Malappuram, Murshidabad and Kishanganj. The university has been ranked 801–1000 in the QS World University Rankings of 2021, and 17 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020.
About Aligarh Muslim University in brief
The university was established as the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. It has three off-campus centres in Malappuram, Murshidabad and Kishanganj. The university has been ranked 801–1000 in the QS World University Rankings of 2021, and 17 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020. Various clubs and societies function under the aegis of the university and it has various notable academicians, literary figures, politicians, jurists, lawyers, sportsperson, among others as its alumni. The college was initially affiliated to he University of Calcutta for the matriculate examination but became an affiliate of Allahabad University in 1885. In 1927, the Ahmadi School for the Visually Challenged, Aligarh Muslim University was established and in the following year, a medical school was attached to the university. The Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College And Hospital was established later in 1962 as a part of theUniversity. In 1935, the Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology was also established as a constituent of the University. Before 1939, faculty members and students supported an all-India nationalist movement but after 1939, political sentiment shifted towards support for a Muslim separatist movement. Students and faculty members supported Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the women’s college is the center of the Pakistan Movement. Dr. Sheikh Abdullah is the founder of the women’s college and had pressed for women’s education.
The foundation stone for the girls’ education school was laid by the Lt. Governor of the United Provinces while also writing a proposal to Sultan Jahan Jahan of Bhopal for a grant of hopal. In October 1906, he successfully started a girls’ education school for five students and one teacher at a rented property in AligARh. On October 19, 1906, the foundation for girls’ school for girls was laid for the hostel for the month of October for the cost of ₹ 100 per month for the education of the girls. In the same year, Dr Sheikh Abdullah also started a women’s magazine, Khathat Khatoon. The women’s school was established in October 1906 for the purpose of providing education to girls. The girls’ college was established for the duration of the 1906-1913 academic year. The school was a centre for education for girls and was run by a group of women called the ‘Khatoon Girls’ School’. It was established by the Muslim University Association in 1900 to help raise funds for the college. A committee was formed by the name of foundation of Muslim College and asked people to fund generously. The contributions were made by Muslims as well as non-Muslims. The 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, HEH Mir Osman Ali Khan made a remarkable donation of Rupees 5 Lakh to this institution in the year 1918. With the MAO College as a nucleus, the Aligorh MuslimUniversity was then established by the AlgarhMuslim University Act, 1920.
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