English and Foreign Languages University

The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) is a central university with its headquarters at Tarnaka, Hyderabad, and campuses at Shillong and Lucknow. It was founded in 1958 as the Central Institute of English, became the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in 1972 and received deemed-university status in 1973. Parliament established it as a teaching university under the English and Foreign Languages University Act, 2006 (No. 7 of 2007), which received the President's assent on 10 January 2007. The Shillong campus dates from 1973 and the Lucknow campus from 1979.

The university reports seven schools and 26 departments, and teaches English and ten foreign languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Persian. At Hyderabad it offers four-year BA (Hons/Hons with Research) programmes in 13 subjects, two-year MA programmes in 17 subjects, a B.Ed. (English), a two-semester Postgraduate Diploma in the Teaching of English, part-time certificate and diploma courses in foreign languages, and PhD programmes of three years including course work. Its NIRF data submission lists a sanctioned intake for 2024-25 of 340 in four-year UG programmes, 100 in one-year PG programmes and 580 in two-year PG programmes. The university directs undergraduate and postgraduate applicants to CUET, conducted by the National Testing Agency.