Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India accorded permission to the Ramakrishna Mission to start a deemed [to be] university (under University Grants Commission Act) named Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute by a Gazette Notification dated 5 January 2005. Later, by another Notification of the UGC, the university was renamed as ‘’Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Univeristy‘. The formal inauguration of the university took place on 4 July 2005, Swami Vivekananda’s Mahasamadhi day. Swami Vivekananda envisioned that Belur Math would be a centre of great harmony and synthesis, not only of all religious beliefs and traditions, but also of arts and sciences and the various branches of knowledge, both secular and spiritual. It would be the centre of great spiritual and cultural awakening.

Vision
Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission as commanded by his Master, Sri Ramakrishna, for the secular and spiritual amelioration of humankind as a whole, irrespective of caste, creed, colour, nationality, gender or religion. His focus was on the individual emancipation of a human being from ignorance as well as the collective good of the society at all levels, physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual.

Mission
Ramakrishna Mission is a religious organisation with extensive philanthropic and charitable activities, started in 1897 by Swami Vivekananda. It has been silently serving the country in various spheres like education, health, relief and rehabilitation, propagation of Indian cultural and spiritual heritage, etc., through its many centres in India and abroad for over a century.

Faculty

• School of Indian Heritage
• Belur Math, Howrah
• West Bengal

Courses Offered

• Integrated MA in Sanskrit (fully in Sanskrit medium) (5 years)
• Certificate course in ‘Studies on Swami Vivekananda’ (One day in a week for One Year)
• Diploma in ‘Essentials of Indian Spiritual Heritage’ (2 days in a week for two years)
• Diploma in ‘Srimad Bhagavad Gita—Traditional and Modern Interpretation’ (Two days in a week for two years)
• MSc in ‘Integrated Rural Development and Management’ (Two years)
• Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Agro-based Biotechnology’ (One year)
• Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Agro-based Bio-technology’ (One year)
• Integrated MSc in ‘Integrated Rural and Tribal Development’ (Five years)
• BEd in Special Education (Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment,Mental Retardation) (One year)
• Diploma in Special Education (Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Mental Retardation) (Two years)
• Diploma in Sign language, Diploma in Community-based Rehabilitation,Diploma in Computer Applications for the Disabled (One year)
• MEd in Special Education (Visual impairment,Hearing Impairment, Mental retardation) (One year)
• PhD in Special Education (Two years)
• PhD, MPhil in Physical Education, MPEd, BPEd, CPEd,PG Diploma in Special Olympics, Fitness, Yoga,
• Diploma in Special Olympics, Fitness, Yoga (One to three/five years depending on the course)
• MPhil in Sanskrit leading to PhD (One Year)
• Doctoral / post-doctoral research. in Philosophy, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda thought, Translation Studies, Literature, Consciousness Studies, Physics-Philosophy interface, etc (Three to five years for Ph.D.)
• Doctoral / post-doctoral research. in Theoretical Physics, Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (Three to five years for Ph.D.)

Official Website: http://www.rkmvu.ac.in/