About College
The University of Mumbai, known earlier as the University of Bombay, is one of the oldest universities in India and one of the first three.
The University of Mumbai, known earlier as the University of Bombay, is one of the oldest universities in India and one of the first three. It was established in 1857 consequent upon Wood's Education Dispatch. Following the change in the name of the city from Bombay to Mumbai, the name of the university was changed by a notification of the Government of Maharashtra published in the Government Gazette dated 4 September 1996. It teaches through faculties of humanities, commerce and management, science and technology, and interdisciplinary studies, and has a sub-campus at Thane.