• Tezpur University is a Central University located in Tezpur in the North Eastern state of Assam, India by an act in Parliament of India in 1994. History

History

The establishment of Tezpur University is considered to be one of the outcomes of the Assam Accord, along with the establishment of Assam University and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

• Tezpur University was established, by an Act of Parliament, in 1994. The then prime minister of India, P. V. Narasimha Rao, chaired the opening of the university.
• Initially, the university operated from the premises of the Darrang College, in Tezpur. For a while it also operated from the Tezpur Law College premises. Land was acquired at Napaam, a suburb of Tezpur, about 15 kilometers east, of 262 acres (0.98 square kilometers), and the premises shifted.
• Kalaguru Bishnuprasad Rava (Rabha) donated an ancestral estate of 2500 bigha of land received from the British government in favour of the peasants. The present-day Tezpur University stands on the land donated by him. Recently, the university acquired an additional plot of land.

Campus

• The university campus is at Napaam about 15 km east of Tezpur, the headquarters of the Sonitpur district of Assam.
• Napaam is a rural area surrounded by peoples of diverse caste, religion and language.
• The Napaam campus is in a plot of an area of 600 acres (2.4 km2) of land. The campus is bounded by pucca walls.
• Napaam is linked by a PWD road from the National Highway No. 37A at almost the midpoint between Kalia-Bhomora bridge and Misson Chariali.
• Tezpur is linked by road and rail with the rest of the state and the country. There is a tri-weekly flight between Kolkata and Tezpur.

Rankings

• University rankings
• General – international
• QS (Asia) (2018) 247
• Times (World) (2018) 601-800
• Times (Asia) (2018) 100

General – India Ranking

• NIRF (Overall) (2018) 46
• NIRF (Universities) (2018) 29
• Tezpur University was ranked 601-800 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2018 and 100 in Asia. The QS World University
• Rankings ranked it 247 in Asia in 2018. In India it was ranked 46 overall by the National Institutional Ranking Framework of 2018 and 29 among universities.