As a Regional Centre of EFLU Hyderabad (erstwhile CIEFL), the Lucknow Campus was established in the year 1979 in Lucknow to provide training to university/college teachers of English in northern India, but it slowly emerged as a full-fledged Centre offering PG Diploma in the Teaching of English, Bachelors and Masters degrees and research programmes. The campus has been actively engaged in conducting refresher courses for university and college teachers, proficiency courses in English and Foreign Languages for a wide spectrum of learners. Presently, the Regional Campus, Lucknow runs B.A. (Hons.) English/ BA English, Research, M.A. English, MA Linguistics, PGDTE, and Ph.D. programmes along with Proficiency, Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses in four Foreign Languages namely French, German, Spanish and Russian. All programmes run by the Campus are face-to-face and are not offered through the distance mode. The campus has its own library and hostels.

The presence of the EFL University campus in the city of Lucknow is significant. Liberalization of the Indian Economy has opened new vistas for jobs all over the world for the Indian youth. The people have made great progress due to their proficiency in English and other languages. Still a huge population of the young generation in the state of Uttar Pradesh as well as other major parts of Northern India needs to be trained and made proficient especially in English and Foreign Languages in order to let the benefits of globalization and the booming service sector reach the grassroot level. The Campus has been helping to cope with this lacuna mainly by training teachers and would-be teachers of English who need to learn the new techniques of faster, efficient, and effective methods of teaching English.