Milestones

The University began its academic activities with the MA Programme in Development Studies in 2009. Till date, the university has been able to offer four (4) Integrated undergraduate (UG) programmes, 25 postgraduate (PG) programmes and 22 Ph.D. programmes. The campus of the University is spread over about 300 acres of land located on Gaya-Panchanpur Road, about 15 kms away from Gaya Railway Station.
2009 – 10 : The University made its beginning by establishing the Centre for Development Studies under the School of Social Sciences and Policy, and launched its first PG Programme.
2016 – 17 : The University introduced LLM programme under School of Law Governance from the Academic Year 2016-17. In addition, Ph.D. programmes in all Centres / Departments were introduced in accordance with the UGC (Minimum Standard and Procedure for Award of M.Phil / Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2016. Ph.D. programme was started in 16 departments /centres viz. (i) Biotechnology (ii) Life Science (iii) Environmental Science (iv) Mathematics (v) Statistics (vi) Communication and Media Studies (vii) Psychology (viii) Computer Science (ix) Hindi (x) English (xi) Sociology (xii) Development Studies (xiii) Economics (xiv) Political Science & International Relations (xv) Education and (xvi) Law and (xvii) Bioinformatics
Schools
Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, the former President of India in her capacity as the Visitor, in exercise of the powers vested in her under Section 27 (3) of the Act, 2009 accorded assent to the amendment to Statute 15 of the University (vide letter no. F. 42 – 26/2009-Desk (U) dated 28th July 2010, and approved 14 schools and entered in the Statutes:
Central University of Bihar offers various programmes of studies under the following 14 Schools, of which 11 (Eleven) Schools of studies are presently active:
- Schools of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science
- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
- Schools of Earth, Biological and Environmental Science
- School of Social Sciences & Policy
- School of Human Science
- School of Languages & Literature
- School of Media, Arts & Aesthetics
- Schools of Management
- Schools of Education
- School of Law & Governance
- School of Vocational Studies
- School of Technology
- School of Health Sciences
- School of Agriculture and Development