Lalit Narayan Mithila University

The Lalit Narayan Mithila University (LNMU) in 1972. The location os university is in Darbhanga town popularly known as the heart. Mithila , an ancient cultural region of North India lies between the lower range of the Himalayas and the Ganges river. The university with its national and international linkage, imparts quality education in fields such as Humanities, Social Science, Life Science, Commerce and Medicine etc., with various undergraduate and postgraduate courses. More than 400 faculty of national and international repute belonging to different fields are engaged in teaching and research activities. The institute is self contained beautiful with green residential campus of about 200 acres (0.81 km2) with all the modern facilities and support services for its students and faculties.

The year – 1968 may be regarded as a landmark year in the history of the University when a UGC team visited Darbhanga in order to explore the possibility of establishing a multi faculty University here. Subsequently State Government set up a committee to examine the administrative and academic structure of a modern University at Darbhanga, following the recommendations made by the visiting team of the U.G.C.

The university offers various UG, PG, Certificate, Diploma, P.G Diploma, M.Phil., Ph.d and vocational programs.

Departments of Lalit Narayan Mithila University

• Department of Bio-technology
• Department of Botany
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Commerce & Business Administration
• Department of Economics
• Department of English
• Department of Geography
• Department of Hindi
• Department of History
• Department of Home Science
• Department of Maithili
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Music & Dramatics
• Department of Philosophy
• Department of Physics
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Psychology
• Department of Sanskrit
• Department of Sociology
• Department of Urdu
• Department of Zoology

Contact Details
Postal Address:
Lalit Narayan Mithila University,
Kameshwar Nagar,
Darbhanga-846008.

Vice-Chancellor :
Dr. Raj Mani Prasad Sinha
Phone Numbers: 06272-222463, 06272-222598
Email ID: vc_lnmu@indiatimes.com

Pro-Vice-Chancellor :
Dr. Gopal Pd. Singh    
Phone: 06272-222186