The University of Hyderabad is a central university at Gachibowli in Hyderabad, Telangana. It was established as a Central University by an Act of Parliament (Act No. 39 of 1974) on 2 October 1974. The university’s website describes it as an Institution of Eminence and gives its campus as around 2,300 acres.
In its NIRF 2026 data submission the university reported 4,086 students on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and 1,489 PhD students (1,427 full-time and 62 part-time). The same file records 242 full-time PhD graduates in 2024-25. The university reports 1,206 Scopus publications in 2024. Its leadership page names Prof. J Anuradha as Vice-Chancellor in charge, Justice LN Reddy as Chancellor and Dr. Devesh Nigam as Registrar.