Location Details:

Shillong, the capital city of the state of Meghalaya, is a hill station located at approximately 2000m height from sea level. The university main campus is spread over 1024 acres of picturesque, gently undulating and thickly wooded land. It has temperate climate and is a major tourist attraction. The state of Meghalaya is full of natural lakes, reserve forests and water falls. Meghalaya is located in the north-eastern part of India, the latter being one of the biodiversity hotspots. India’s NE region is also rich in social and cultural diversity.

UG Level:
21 undergraduate degree modules offered by Colleges affiliated to NEHU.

PG Level:
Master’s Degree (MA, MSc, MPhil) and PhD Programs in Anthropology, Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Economics, Education, English, Garo, Geography, Hindi, History, Khasi, Library & Information Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Rural Development & Agricultural Production, Sociology, Zoology.
Certificate & Diploma Courses:
Adult education, Applied statistics, Computer application, Disaster management, Environmental science, Folkloristic, Music, NGO Management, Painting.
Our Master’s Degree programs in area like history, sociology, anthropology, life sciences have a very substantial content devoted to the understanding of India’s North-East and its neighbouring areas like, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
Undergraduate courses are run by affiliated colleges. The university has 54 affiliated colleges which run 21 undergraduate degree programmes in sciences, arts, humanities, management and engineering.

This University was established in 1973 by Act of Parliament. We have produced a substantial body of first rate research material in areas of sciences, environmental studies, biodiversity, understanding indigenous cultures and their historical, linguistic and philosophical links.
The university runs only MA, MSc, MPhil, PhD, and Certificate & Diploma courses. There are 22 Post Graduate Departments, four Centres of Studies and a biodiversity cell. Each Department/ Centre has highly qualified faculty and involved in first rate research. Several faculty members have foreign collaboration in research.

We have well equipped research labs, central Instrumentation facilities, sophisticated instruments centre, a university science instrumentation centre. We have our own Voice-Data Network and all sections of the university are linked. All labs have internet connection. There is a well-equipped Central Library in addition to departmental libraries.

University buses for transport, Co-operative store, guest house, play ground, housing for faculty, and a central school for childrens’ education up to class XII.

There is a Dean Students Welfare, a number of Hostels for accommodation of students (separate for boys and girls), and a Students Union. The university has a central admissions committee for foreign students.