Banaras Hindu University is in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Its main website gives 1916 as the year of its inception and says the university was established by Parliamentary legislation, the B.H.U. Act 1915.
The university’s home page reports 5 institutes, 16 faculties and 135 departments. Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi took charge as its 29th Vice-Chancellor on 31 July 2025, according to the Office of the Vice Chancellor page on the university’s digital library site. Its NIRF 2026 data submission reported 18,392 undergraduate, 10,851 postgraduate and 2,455 PhD students for 2024-25, and Rs 2,058,525,306 received for 596 sponsored research projects in 2024-25.
