Bundelkhand University, Jhansi

The Academic Bulletin marks every campus programme with a selection-mode code, and its legend runs to six of them. Some programmes are filled by the university's own entrance test, some purely on qualifying-exam marks, some through counselling run by a technical university in Lucknow, the architecture line through an architecture aptitude test, and the two integrated teaching degrees through a national agency. Which code sits against a course decides which form the applicant fills and who receives it, and half of the six are not filed with Bundelkhand University at all.

The university sits on Kanpur Road in Jhansi and runs a single admission cycle across two kinds of place: the institutes on its own campus, and the colleges affiliated to it, some of which teach courses the campus does not. This page sets out what the university itself publishes: the per-annum fee and sanctioned intake for its campus programmes, the admission mechanism per route, and the placement figures it filed with the National Institutional Ranking Framework.

Bundelkhand University came into existence on August 26, 1975, under a Government of Uttar Pradesh notification numbered 10/15-60/74 issued under the U.P. Universities Act, according to the university's own history page. The Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Smt. Anandiben Patel, is its Chancellor and Prof. Mukesh Pandey its Vice Chancellor, both named in the leadership panel on the university's B.Ed. JEE page.

Teaching on campus is organised into named institutes rather than plain departments, and the main programme table in the Academic Bulletin 2026-27 runs to 116 numbered entries under those institute headings before its four-year undergraduate annexures even begin.

The university also runs an examination that is not its own. The Uttar Pradesh government entrusted the Joint B.Ed. Entrance Examination to Bundelkhand University, and the university's B.Ed. JEE page says it has organised the test since 2023, listing the 2026 paper for May 31, 2026 and the result for June 16, 2026. Its own B.Ed. seats are inside that test rather than outside it: the appendix of participating universities in the 2026 information brochure opens with Bundelkhand University, Jhansi.

Fees here are quoted per annum, and the range runs from 6,510 for a B.A. (Hons.) in Hindi, English, History or Political Science to 112,010 for B.Arch. The spread is not a faculty-by-faculty pattern either. Inside the Institute of Economics & Finance alone, the bulletin prices M.A. Applied Economics at 9,560 and MBA (Financial Management) at 63,010.

The course fee is not the whole bill. The same bulletin adds an examination fee of 2,990 on almost every line, collected as 1,525 in the first semester and 1,465 in the second, a processing fee of 50 paid when the examination form is filled, and a counselling fee of 500 charged on top at admission. The 420-seat B.Sc. (Honours) line in its fourth annexure is the exception at 2,590. Its B.Ed. and M.Ed. entries are the only ones priced on two tiers, which the bulletin labels F and S without expanding either, at 51,250 and 30,000.

Accommodation is outside all of this. Hostel charges appear in none of these tables and are published on their own page as a scanned sheet, which is dealt with further down.

The bulletin's legend names six selection modes, and three of them carry most of the campus: ET for the entrance test the university conducts itself, DA for direct admission on qualifying-exam marks, and AKTU for the share of technical seats filled by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. Two more decide specific programmes. SE, the state-level test, is what fills B.Ed., and for B.Ed. that state-level test is the paper this university runs for Uttar Pradesh itself. NTA fills the two integrated teacher-education degrees, B.A. B.Ed. and B.Sc. B.Ed., at 50 seats each, per the Academic Bulletin 2026-27. NATA is the sixth, and it applies only to B.Arch.

For the 2026-27 session, the university's admission guidelines put online forms on sale from 17-04-2026, set 17-05-2026 as the last date and fixed the entrance test for 07-06-2026. That last date did not hold. The admissions page has since carried a run of extension notices, and the date block on it now reads 07 Sep 2026, so an applicant reading the guidelines alone would have the wrong deadline by nearly four months. Registration cost 1100 on the entrance-test route and 550 for SC and ST candidates; the direct-admission form cost 700, or 350 for SC and ST candidates. Test centres were listed for Jhansi, Lucknow, Gwalior, Prayagraj, Chhatarpur, Kanpur, Sagar, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Ghaziabad.

The paper itself is uniform across programmes. Those guidelines set it at two hours, with 100 multiple-choice questions in two equal sections, and the same Section A of general knowledge, reasoning, numerical aptitude, language and computer questions goes to everyone. Only Section B changes with the programme: general awareness and current affairs for LL.B. and the MBA papers, science at 10+2 or undergraduate level for the B.Tech and M.Sc. papers, pharmacy subjects for M.Pharm, and law for LL.M.

Two rules in the guidelines catch applicants out. An applicant may name up to five courses, but sits the entrance paper only for the course placed first in priority, and the merit for the second through fifth choices is then built from that same paper's marks. And where a first-choice course runs at more than one place, on campus and in affiliated colleges or in affiliated colleges only, the applicant has to state the institute preference on the form itself rather than at counselling.

For B.Tech in Computer Science and in Electronics & Communication, the guidelines are explicit that admission goes through the state-level test conducted by AKTU alone, with the university admitting to those two branches only against seats left vacant after AKTU counselling. B.Arch admission runs through AKTU or NATA, and the bulletin adds that it follows the admission guidelines issued by the Council of Architecture. Applications on the university's own routes are filed on its Samarth admission portal.

Doctoral admission sits outside this cycle entirely, on its own notice, its own guidelines and its own registration page.

Bundelkhand University does not publish programme-wise closing ranks or cutoff tables. Its guidelines state only the principle: admission on the entrance-test route is made according to the rank of the candidate, and admission on the direct route according to marks in the eligibility examination, in both cases subject to eligibility and the availability of a seat in that course. It publishes admission notices and counselling schedules, but no historical opening or closing rank series for its own programmes.

For the technical seats filled by AKTU, the closing ranks are a product of that counselling rather than of anything Bundelkhand University releases. On its own side the university goes further than silence. Its counselling schedule for the entrance test does carry a Rank Position column, and against every programme called in the first phase, from D.Pharma through B.P.T. and M.B.A. to LL.M., the entry in that column reads "to End": each department calls the whole rank list, and no threshold is fixed before counselling begins. The programmes listed below those, M.Ed. and B.El.Ed. and the law and agriculture lines among them, have no rank entry at all, their counselling dates being still to come, and B.P.Ed. is marked only "After Physical Test".

What the university does publish, and enforce, is the eligibility floor. The bulletin sets 50% in graduation for the MBA and MBA (Financial Management) papers and for LL.M., 45% for MBA (Tourism) and MBA (Banking & Insurance), 55% in B.Pharm for every M.Pharm specialisation, and 50% at 10+2 with Physics and Chemistry for the B.Tech branches, taken with Mathematics for Mechanical and the two electronics streams and with Biology accepted in place of it for Biotechnology and Food Engineering. Those thresholds are checked at document verification, and a candidate who misses one has no route in regardless of rank.

The university's Training & Placement Cell is convened by Prof. M.M. Singh with Dr. Sandeep Agrawal as coordinator, and it lists interview rooms, an online assessment lab, video conferencing and in-campus accommodation for visiting recruiters on its own page. It does publish a recruiter-wise record, and the record is worth reading for what it leaves out: eight companies, the largest of them Genpact at 47 placed candidates, with no academic year attached to any row, on its placement record page. The placement-drive log is older still, its most recent registration window having closed in 2017. Neither carries a placement percentage or a highest package.

The institution-filed figures are in the NIRF submissions instead, and they are the most useful placement data this university has released.

Read the placement column alongside the higher-studies column, because on its own it understates the outcome. For the three-year undergraduate stream the same submission records 1,982 graduating in minimum time, 1,522 placed and a further 432 selected for higher studies. A bare placement percentage treats everyone in that third figure as a failure to place.

The Institute of Pharmacy files its own numbers, and the medians in them rise every year. Its B.Pharm median for placed graduates went from 419,000 for the cohort graduating in 2021-22 to 438,000 in 2022-23 and 455,000 in 2023-24, while the number placed rose from 31 to 36 to 54 on graduating cohorts of 56, then 54, then 86, per the NIRF 2025 Pharmacy submission. On the M.Pharm side the same file records medians of 475,000, then 520,000, then 550,000 across those three years, on graduating cohorts of 14, 13 and 12 students of whom 12, then 11, then 9 were placed. The M.Pharm median went up in each of those years while the number placed went down in each of them, so the two lines do not tell the same story and a reader should not take the median alone.

Sanctioned intake is reported two ways here, and both are worth having. The bulletin gives it per programme; the NIRF submission gives it per programme length, which is how the ranking framework counts.

At programme level the spread is stark. The bulletin puts LL.B. at 180 seats and B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture at 240, both filled by entrance test, while the four M.Pharm specialisations carry 15, 15, 10 and 10 seats between them. The largest single line in the four-year annexure is B.Sc. (Honours) in the Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Physics and Maths combination at 420 seats, and B.El.Ed. is listed at 1700 seats, offered only in affiliated colleges rather than on campus.

Where a programme is shared with AKTU, the bulletin splits the line explicitly: 60 AKTU seats against 40 entrance-test seats in B.Pharm, 30 and 30 in B.Tech Mechanical, and a three-way 20, 20 and 20 in MBA between AKTU, the university test and a CAT score. B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering shows 60 seats against AKTU alone, which matches the guideline that the university admits to that branch only against vacancies.

The Institute of Pharmacy is the one unit on this campus that NIRF measures. The NIRF 2025 Pharmacy ranking puts it 68th on 46.31, and the five components behind that total are worth more to a pharmacy applicant than the total is.

Graduation outcomes and teaching resources are what hold the institute up. Research and perception are what hold it down, and the research figure is far enough below the rest that no amount of improvement in the other four would disguise it.

A second 2025 table names the university without scoring it. India Rankings 2025 lists Bundelkhand University among the State Public Universities in the 51-100 rank-band, which NIRF publishes as an alphabetical roll of institution names. That places the university somewhere inside a fifty-place span and no closer than that, and it is a different claim from the pharmacy position: it is about the whole institution, and it is the only 2025 recognition the institution as a whole received. The university does not appear on the scored top-50 page of that same category.

Back to pharmacy, and read its position against the full run rather than against last year, because the two tell different stories.

The score has gone up in every edition, from 39.61 in the 2021 table to 46.31 in the 2025 one. The rank has not: the institute was 68th in 2021, slid to 83rd by 2023 and has spent two editions climbing back to exactly where it started. Absolute improvement and competitive standstill are both true here, and the reason is visible in the parameter split above, where research and professional practice is the lowest of the five scores by a distance.

The university files NIRF data in eight further categories, covering Overall, Management, Law, Architecture, Engineering, Innovation, Agriculture and Sustainable Institutions, and those submissions are published on its NIRF page. Filing data is not the same as being ranked. None of those eight produced a scored position in 2025, so a subject-by-subject comparison with a ranked rival is possible for pharmacy and for nothing else on this campus.

The campus is divided into 26 institutes, and the Academic Bulletin 2026-27 uses them as the headings of its programme table, so the institute a course sits under is also the unit that teaches and counsels for it. Several carry commemorative names: the Babu Jagjivan Ram Institute of Law, the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Institute of Forensic Science & Criminology, the Major Dhyan Chand Institute of Physical Education, the J C Bose Institute of Life Sciences, the Dr. S. R. Rangnathan Institute of Library & Information Science, the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Institute of Social Science, the Bhasker Institute of Mass Communication & Journalism and the Vaidya R.N. Sharma Institute of Alternative Medical Education & Research.

The rest are named for their subject: Management Studies, Tourism & Hotel Management, Economics & Finance, Food Technology, Earth Sciences, Mathematical Sciences & Computer Applications, Computer Science & Information Technology, Pharmacy, Engineering & Technology, Agricultural Sciences, Basic Sciences and Applied Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Home Science, Rehabilitation Science, Fine Arts, Languages, Education, and Architecture & Town Planning. One teaching unit in the same table is styled a department rather than an institute, the Department of Regional and Environmental Studies, which carries the environmental science and non-conventional energy lines.

Two of those names are worth separating for anyone searching by subject. Biomedical work is split: the Institute of Biomedical Sciences teaches M.Sc. and B.Sc. programmes, while the admission guidelines put B.Tech (Biomedical Engg.) among the technical papers with its own entrance paper code, a branch the bulletin's engineering table does not itself list. And the Institute of Pharmacy is the only one of the 26 with a published national ranking of its own.

The Central Library holds about 148,302 print books, 846 back volumes and 1,893 theses, has added an average of 3,520 books a year over the last three years, and carries 7,311 e-books and e-journals, according to its own stock page. The library overview puts it at 1,823 square metres with seating for roughly 150 readers, subscribing to Web of Science, JSTOR, Springer Link, Taylor and Francis, the American Chemical Society package and JGate Plus. Spending backs that up: the NIRF 2025 Overall submission records library capital expenditure of 28,992,000 in 2023-24, against 22,956,800 the year before.

The sports estate is listed item by item rather than in the round: an indoor stadium with four badminton courts, table tennis, volleyball and basketball courts, a playground with football and a running track, a swimming pool, and two gymnasiums, one of them reserved for the girls hostels, per the sports facilities page.

Residential capacity here is weighted heavily towards women, to a degree the published figures make hard to miss. The girls hostel page lists six women's hostels on campus, five for students and one for working women, and gives the student capacities as 300 in the Veerangana Jhalkari Bai Hostel, 330 in Samta Girls Hostel, 120 in the G. Women's Hostel, 50 in the Annexe and 42 in the Maharani Laxmi Bai Hostel. The same page describes generator power back-up, Wi-Fi, a mess with RO drinking water, and assembly times of 6.30 pm in winter and 7.00 pm in summer.

The men's side is one building. The boys hostel page names the Lord Buddha PG Boys Hostel, with accommodation for more than 150 students, and a new SC and ST boys hostel for over 200 students that it calls likely to be operational at the outset of the forthcoming academic session. That is a statement of intent rather than a fact on the ground, so a male applicant planning to live on campus should ask the university directly whether the second building has opened before counting on a bed in it.

Charges are the gap in this section. They are not printed anywhere in the fee tables that price the courses; the hostel fee page carries a single "Hostel Charges" download and nothing on the page itself, and that download is a scanned sheet with no text in it. A resident student has to open the scan; the tuition figures quoted higher up do not cover a bed.

415 teachers are named, one by one, in the university's NIRF 2025 Overall submission, which is the only place the whole teaching body is set out in public rather than institute by institute. The useful column in it is the last one, association type. Most of the 415 are Regular; the rest are split between Adhoc and Contractual appointments, and exactly one teacher on the entire list is Visiting.

The Institute of Pharmacy, the one unit with a published ranking, files 32 faculty of its own in the NIRF 2025 Pharmacy submission, almost all holding a Ph.D and almost all on Regular appointments, several with joining dates going back to the early 2000s.

That mix is being added to on both sides at once. The university's recruitment notices show Assistant Professor vacancies advertised in two parallel streams, Advertisement No. 21/2025-26 for the regular departments and No. 22/2025-26 for the self-financed ones, with the written examination for both held over June 11 and 12, 2026 and subject-wise answer keys published afterwards. Departmental directories for campus and affiliated-college teachers are published separately on the university's management system.

The university does keep a named list, and it is worth knowing where it lives, because it is not on the main website. The Bundelkhand University Campus Alumni Association publishes a Distinguished Alumni table giving each person's programme, batch year, designation and employer, alongside a second and longer Sparkling Alumni table.

Public service accounts for the entries easiest to check independently. The table puts Anurag Sharma, MBA 1986, in Parliament and as managing director of Shree Baidyanath Ayurved Bhawan, and Dr. Chandrapal Singh Yadav, Ph.D. 2004, as a former member of both Houses and chairman of KRIBHCO. It also names Abhishek Narayan, B.Tech in Electronics & Instrumentation 2009, in the IAS, Dr. K. S. Pratap Kumar, Ph.D. 2007, and Vijay Prakash, M.Sc. Forensic Science 2015, in the IPS, and Dr. Ajay Pratap Singh, Ph.D. 2004, as Director General of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation.

Two cautions about reading it. The designations are the ones the association recorded when it compiled the table, which carries no revision date, so an office named there may since have changed hands; treat each as the association's record rather than a statement about who holds the post today. And the list leans hard on one institute, with management graduates outnumbering every other programme on it, so it describes where MBA cohorts went better than it describes the campus as a whole.

The university's address page gives the postal address as Bundelkhand University, Kanpur Road, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, 284128, with three switchboard lines on 0510-2320496, 2320307 and 2321158 and a fax on 0510-2320761. The same page puts the campus 8 km from Jhansi Junction and 115 km from Gwalior airport, formally the Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia Air Terminal.

Admission questions go somewhere else. The admissions page runs its own admission cell on 0510-2321158, 9076501617 and 7398802581, and applications themselves are filed on the Samarth admission portal rather than by post or email. Placement enquiries are separate again, going to the Training & Placement Cell at tnp@bujhansi.org, whose convener and coordinator are named with direct numbers on its own site.

One warning the university itself publishes is worth repeating, because it bears on which address you trust. The footer of the official site lists ten lookalike domains, among them bujhansi.co.in, bujhansiresult.com and bundelkhanduniversity.co.in, states that the university is not associated with any of them, and warns that results and notices found there may be misinformation. The official domain is bujhansi.ac.in.

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