About Us

HISTORY - The school of chemical sciences established in 1972, is one of the leading schools of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore and has played a pivotal role in research and teaching chemistry. The school has very effectively played its role of training chemist scientists who are contributing significantly in the developmemt of the state as well as other parts of the country. The school was founded with the dedicated effort of Late Professor W.V Bhagwat.

ACADEMICS - School of Chemical Sciences is one of the premier institutions in central India as one of the leading and acclaimed science centres. As science and technology move faster and faster, globally it becomes challenging for Indian institutions to prepare their students to face the international arena. To prepare trained chemist scientists for highly professional and top positions in academics, drug and pharmaceutical industries, the school is running M.Sc. Chemistry and M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Chemistry along with Ph.D. program. Standards and achievements are impressive for both taught courses as well as research. Our distinguishing features are :

1. The strength of the school has been and continues to be excellance in research and teaching.
2. The School is recognized at National and International levels as evidenced by research publications in reputed journals.
3. We provide Theoretical and Practical knowledge of Instrumental and spectroscopic techniques at M.Sc level.
4. Summer Training and project work in leading industries and reputed National Institutions.
5. The Alumni of the School occupy high positions in industry and academia in India and around the world.Their accomplishments have been outstanding and reflect high quality training imparted to the students at both M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels.
6. Many students of department have qualified NET / GATE and related examination at National level.
7. The department is supported by the SAP DRS-Phase 1 status provided by UGC to inculcate an atmosphere which is conducive for research activities and to encourage innovative thinking among the young budding researchers and students.

Summer training and project work in leading industries such as Lupin, Nicholas Piramal, IPCA, Dr. Reddy's Lab, Cipla, Sun Pharma, Medilux and reputed institutes of national importance such as IISC Banglore, IIT Indore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Gandhinagar, National Institute of Immunology(New Delhi) NCL(Pune), NIPER(Chandigarh), CDRI(Lucknow), IICT(Hyderabad),NEERI(Nagpur),AMPRI(Bhopal), IISER(Bhopal), National Research Center for Soyabean, Indore, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore ,Inter University Consotium, Indore Center,CSMCRI(Bhavnagar)