Universities
The University of Pune was established in 1948. Spread over a comprehensive 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus, the university is home to 46 academic departments and several important research institutes, including the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), National Centre For Cell Science (NCCS), National Institute of Virology (NIV), Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth among others.
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“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularityor, which is just as satisfying, unpopularityby being opinionated rather than by being learned.”
—A.N. (Andrew Norman)
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