List of institutions of higher education in Uttar Pradesh
This is an incomplete list of institutions of higher education in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Institutes of National Importance

There are 13 Institutes of National Importance in the state of Uttar Pradesh, including two central universities, University of Allahabad[1] and Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University,[2] declared as INI.
Universities
Uttar Pradesh has 75 universities, the second-highest in all Indian states and territories.
Type | Number |
---|---|
Central | 6 |
State | 32 |
Private | 29[14] |
Deemed | 8 |
Total | 75 |
Central
Uttar Pradesh has 6 Central Universities, the second most after any Indian state:[15]
University | Location | Image | Established | University status | Enrolled students (as of 2014) |
References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aligarh Muslim University | Aligarh | ![]() |
1875 [16] | 1920 | 20791 | [17] |
University of Allahabad | Prayagraj | ![]() |
1876 [18] | 1887 | 22615 | [19][20] |
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University | Lucknow | ![]() |
1996 | 1996 | 1770 | [21] |
Banaras Hindu University[note 1] | Varanasi | ![]() |
1916 | 1916 | 30698 | [22][23][24] |
Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University | Amethi district | 2013 | 2013 | – | [25] | |
Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University | Jhansi | 2014 | 2014 | – | [26] |
Note
- Granted Institute of Eminence (IoE) status in 2019.
State
There are 32 functional state universities in Uttar Pradesh:
- Notes
‡ Funded and run by Agriculture Department (Government of Uttar Pradesh) instead of Higher Education Department of State.
+ Funded and run by Department of Medical Education (Government of Uttar Pradesh) instead of Higher Education Department of State.
# Funded and run by Technical Education Department (Government of Uttar Pradesh) instead of Higher Education Department of State.
*1,*2 and *3 are funded and run by Animal Husbandry Department (Government of Uttar Pradesh), Development Authorities in Gautam Budh Nagar district (Uttar Pradesh Government Agencies) and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department (Government of Uttar Pradesh) respectively instead of Higher Education Department of State.
Non affiliating universities are the universities which can not give affiliation to any private college. But these universities can have campus in another district or open a constituent college outside or inside main campus by university's own fund, with or without an additional aid of the government.
Upcoming State Universities
- Azamgarh State University (will be established by Uttar Pradesh Act no. 6 of 2019)[59]
- Saharanpur State University (will be established by Uttar Pradesh Act no. 6 of 2019)[60]
- Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University (will be established by Uttar Pradesh Act no. 20 of 2019)[61]
- Uttar Pradesh Police and Forensic Science University (will be established by Uttar Pradesh Act no. 4 of 2020)[62]
- Maha Yogi Guru Gorakhnath Ayush University (will be established by Uttar Pradesh Act no. 6 of 2020[63] and Uttar Pradesh Ordinance no. 1 of 2021[64])
- Uttar Pradesh National Law University (will be established by Uttar Pradesh Act no. 26 of 2020)[65]
Private
List of Private Universities in Uttar Pradesh:
Deemed
The following eight institutions have been declared as Deemed Universities under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India:[90]
Research institutions
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow
- Botanical Survey of India (Central Regional Centre), Prayagraj
- Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
- Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
- Centre for Social Forestry and Eco-Rehabilitation, (a centre of ICFRE), Prayagraj
- Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Prayagraj[105]
- Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj
- Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur
- Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow
- Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow
- Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (Regional Center), Prayagraj
- ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi[106]
- IRRI South Asia Regional Centre, Varanasi[107]
- Indian Institute of Handloom Technology, Varanasi[108]
- National Academy of Sciences, India, Prayagraj
- National Sugar Institute, Kanpur
- National Seed Research and Training Centre, Varanasi[109]
- National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow
- Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur
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