Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

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Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

Former name	Kanpur University
Motto	IAST: Aaroh Tamso Jyoti
Motto in English	"From darkness, lead us to light"
Type	State
Established	9 February 1966 (58 years ago) (1966-02-09)
Chancellor	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Vice-Chancellor	Vinay Kumar Pathak
Location	Kalyanpur, Kanpur , Uttar Pradesh , India 26°29′54″N 80°15′57″E / 26.4983°N 80.2658°E / 26.4983; 80.2658
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	UGC
Website	csjmu.ac.in

Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), formerly Kanpur University, is a public state collegiate university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is administered under the state legislature of the government of Uttar Pradesh.^{[citation needed]}

The administration is the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor and the members of the executive council, the court and the academic council of the university.

The Kulpati (Vice-Chancellor) is a whole-time salaried officer of the university and is appointed by the chancellor from amongst the names submitted to him by a committee constituted in accordance with the provisions above U.P. Universities Act 1973.^[1]

In 2024, National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University among top 101-125 Pharmacy colleges/universities in India.^[3]

The university is affiliating university all non engineering, non medical (including pharmacy), non MBA degree, non MCA degree offering colleges of Auraiya district, Etawah district, Farrukhabad district, Kannauj district, Kanpur Dehat district, Kanpur Nagar district and Unnao district from the year of 2020.^[4] Notable affiliated colleges include DAV College, Kanpur, Vikramajit Singh Sanatan Dharma College, Christ Church College, Kanpur, Pandit Prithi Nath College, Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College etc.

The list of formerly affiliated notable college who now have university status or now affiliated with another university-

• Harcourt Butler Technical University (1968 to 2000)
• Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology (1968 to 1975)
• Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences (2006 to 2016)
• Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (1968 to 2021)

The university has several departments, including:

The University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) is now a department of the university. It was founded in 1996 (earlier known as Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur)The University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), School of Engineering and Technology, and is an engineering and technology institute in Kanpur.

• Faculty of Pharmacy, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences
• Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University

• Official website
  • University Institute of Engineering and Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur