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The University of Pune is one of India's premier universities. It was established on February 10, 1949. It is spread over a comprehensive 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus and is home to 46 academic departments. It is also known as the 'Oxford of the East'. In 1949, there were only 18 colleges affiliated to the university, with an enrollment of over 8000 students. Thereafter, the number of colleges increased, and in 2004, the university had 46 graduate departments, 269 affiliated colleges and 118 recognized research institutions, with an enrollment of 170,000 students for both the undergraduate and graduate courses in different faculties.

important research institutes, including 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) among others.