SNDT Womens University is the first Womens university in India as well as in South-East Asia. The University was founded by Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve in 1916 for a noble cause of Womens Education. The first five women graduated in 1921 from this University. The University Headquarters is in Churchgate Campus, Mumbai and the other two campuses of this University are at Juhu, Mumbai and Karve Road, Pune.

Teerthanker Mahaveer University a private university in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh (India) has been established by the Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Uttar Pradesh Act, 2008 (U.P. Act No. 2008) as a Jain Minority University under aegis of Teerthanker Mahaveer Institute of Management & Technology (Society), Moradabad comprising a band of dedicated philanthropists, educationists, industrialists and committed social workers to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional...

Thanthai Periyar the foreseer of modern era, a social revolutionary and a very great thinker had been emphasizing the importance of education all through his life. He dedicated his life for the welfare of those who were deprived of educational opportunities, besides uprooting the deep rooted superstitious beliefs, customs, irrationalism and injustice in the society. He strongly believed and advocated that offering education to a man is education to him only whereas education to a woman is.......