Jamia Hamdard is a deemed to be university at Hamdard Nagar in South Delhi. Its website says it was founded in 1963 as Hamdard Tibbi College by Hakim Abdul Hameed and was granted deemed university status by the Government of India in 1989. It traces its origins to a small Unani clinic set up in 1906 by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed, who named the venture Hamdard.
The website lists ten schools, covering chemical and life sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences, management, interdisciplinary sciences, allied health sciences, nursing, pharmaceutical education, Unani medicine, and skills and vocational studies. The university also runs the Majeedia Unani Hospital. NAAC awarded it an A+ grade in 2023. Its NIRF 2026 data submission reports 9,018 UG and PG students in 2024-25, plus 738 full-time and 95 part-time PhD scholars.