What is the difference between Deemed and Private University?

Hi Gagan, Understanding of a deemed university is as follows. 1. It is autonomous in the sense of setting its own educational agenda (courses, syllabus, teaching methodologies etc.) 2. It is administratively autonomous in the sense that it does not need to abide by the rules and regulations of any other university on adminstrative matters. 3. It can award degrees under its own name, instead of that of an university to which it is affiliated. 4.It cannot be an affiliating university in the sense of allowing other institutions to affiliate themselves to it. 5.It cannot be a purely teaching institution. Research has to be an integral part of its activities. There are private and publicly owned deemed Universities. IITs are publically owned, but Shiv Nadar University or Lovely Professional University is a privately owned deemed University. An institution is declared as a `deemed to be university` by the Central Government under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956 on the advice of the Commission. The Commission has laid down guidelines for considering proposals from institutions. These guidelines, inter-alia, provide that the institution should be: 1) generally engaged in teaching programmes and research, which are innovative and of a very high academic standard; 2) capable of furtlaer enriching the university system; 3) competent to undertake application-oriented programmes in emerging areas of knowledge; 4) generally, in existence for ten years or more; however, those institutions which impart education in emerging areas with promise of excellence can be considered for a provisional status under the `de-novo` category; 5) financially sound, and also create a corpus fund as prescribed by the UGC. Universities under Section 2 (f) of the UGC Act, 1956 as well as those institutions declared as `deemed to be universities` under Section 3 of the said Act, enjoy similar academic powers of teaching, research and examination, and conferral of degrees or other awards, however, only universities created by legislatures can affiliate colleges and institutions `deemed to be universities` can have their constituent units under certain conditions specified by the UGC. All universities created by legislatures, as well as institutions declared as deemed to be universities are required to maintain standards of education, as prescribed by relevant laws. Contd.

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