College directory
Not a university. An ordinary college.
Most students in India do not study at a university. They study at a college affiliated to one, and those colleges appear on no ranking table. All 14,996 of them on the UGC's own list are here, searchable by name, town or affiliating university.
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What 2(f) and 12(B) actually mean.
These two numbers appear on college brochures across India and almost nobody explains them, so they get used to impress rather than to inform. They are sections of the UGC Act, and this is the whole of it.
Section 2(f) means the UGC recognises the institution as a college. It is the basic entry on the register, and it is what this page lists.
Section 12(B) is the higher bar. A 12(B) college is additionally eligible to receive grants from the central government through the UGC. Roughly seven in ten colleges on this list hold it, and it usually indicates an older, established institution that has met further conditions.
Now the part that matters most, and it cuts the other way. A college being absent from this list does not make it fake. Thousands of genuine colleges affiliated to a state university have simply never applied for 2(f), often because they are newer or privately run. Being here is a good sign. Not being here is not, by itself, a bad one. Anyone who tells a family otherwise is misreading the register.
What this page does settle is which university a college is affiliated to. That matters more than most families realise, because your degree is awarded by that university and not by the college. If a college is vague about which university awards its degree, that alone is worth a hard question.
Found your college? Now check the rest.
Being on the UGC register is one of eight checks. The others are the fake-university list, whether your particular course has council approval, NAAC, NIRF, what the fee really adds up to, what the scholarship actually requires, placement disclosure, and a word with a student already there.
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Questions people actually ask
What 2(f) and 12(B) actually settle.
What is the difference between UGC Section 2(f) and 12(B)?
They are two sections of the UGC Act and they mean different things. Section 2(f) means the UGC recognises the institution as a college; it is the basic entry on the register and it is what this page lists. Section 12(B) is the higher bar: a 12(B) college is additionally eligible to receive central government grants through the UGC, roughly seven in ten colleges on this list hold it, and it usually points to an older, established institution that has met further conditions. Neither number is a ranking or a measure of teaching quality.
My college is not on this list. Is it fake?
No, and this is the part that gets misread most often. A college being absent from the 2(f) list does not make it fake. Thousands of genuine colleges affiliated to a state university have simply never applied for 2(f), often because they are newer or privately run. Being on the list is a good sign; not being on it is not, by itself, a bad one. Anyone who tells a family otherwise is misreading the register.
How many colleges are on the UGC list, and what can I search by?
14,996 colleges across 35 states and union territories, searchable by college name, by town, or by the affiliating university. Nothing typed into the search is stored, and it runs entirely in the browser. What this page settles is which university a college is affiliated to, which matters because the degree comes from the affiliating university, not from the college.
Who actually awards my degree if I study at a college?
The affiliating university, not the college. Most students in India do not study at a university at all; they study at a college affiliated to one, and those colleges appear on no ranking table. So the check that matters for an affiliated college is whether its parent university is on the UGC's list of recognised universities, which is a separate list and searchable on this site.