English (Residential)

When it was established 50 years ago, our university, the Central Institute of English as it was called then, consisted of a handful of departments running a limited number of teacher training programmes. Fifteen years later, when the Institute became CIEFL, a few more departments were added. In 1973, when it became a deemed university, M. Phil and Ph. D programmes were introduced in the areas of Linguistics, Phonetics, English Language Teaching, and English Literature: thereby continuing its early tradition of offering only post-M.A programmes.

In 2000, for the first time, graduate programmes in the ‘Face to face’ mode began to be offered. It was now possible to do an M.A in English Literature, Media and Communication, Cultural Studies, TESL, etc. Eight years later, the Institute became ‘The English and Foreign Languages University’, and to mark the occasion, Undergraduate programmes in both English and foreign languages were started. The university will soon have 11 Schools and 37 departments.