The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune is a research and teaching institute in the basic sciences on Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune. It was established in 2006 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, renamed the Ministry of Education in August 2020, and was declared an Institute of National Importance by an Act of Parliament in 2012.
It offers a five-year BS-MS dual degree, MSc and integrated PhD programmes, and PhD programmes. Its facts and figures page lists 1,866 students as of 31 March 2024: 506 PhD, 166 integrated PhD, 45 MSc and 1,149 BS-MS. Departments include biology, chemistry, data science, earth and climate science, humanities and social sciences, mathematics and physics. It had 138 faculty members on the same date.