Jamia Hamdard

Jamia Hamdard is an institute of higher education deemed to be a university, located in Delhi, India. It was founded in 1963 as Hamdard Tibbi College by Hakim Abdul Hameed, and was granted deemed university status in 1989. Its roots trace back to a Unani medicine clinic set up in Delhi in 1906 by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed. The university has jurisdiction over New Delhi and features a campus with a central library, six faculty libraries, a computer centre, a guest house called Scholars' House, and a convention centre seating 200. It comprises several schools of studies including Pharmacy, Hamdard Institute of Legal Studies and Research, Interdisciplinary Sciences and Technology, Management Studies and Information Technology, Engineering Sciences and Technology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR), School of Unani Medical Education and Research, School of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, Islamic Studies and Social Sciences, and Science. The School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research has been ranked number one in India multiple times by the National Institute Ranking Framework. HIMSR, established in 2012, is a private medical school and teaching hospital affiliated with Jamia Hamdard, offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and post-doctoral medical courses.