Nizam College

Nizam College is an autonomous constituent college of Osmania University at Basheerbagh, Hyderabad, on a campus of 21.18 acres. It was founded in 1887 by merging Hyderabad School and Madarsa-i-Aliya, stayed affiliated to the University of Madras for about six decades, and became a constituent college of Osmania University on 19 February 1947; autonomous status was conferred in 1988-89. A UGC letter of January 2018 confirms its place in the list of colleges under Sections 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act, 1956, as a government college teaching up to the master's degree. NAAC accredited it at grade A (CGPA 3.01, fourth cycle) on 6 March 2025, valid up to 5 March 2030. NIRF 2025 ranks it in the 101-150 band of the College category.

The college website lists 29 departments across arts, social sciences, commerce and sciences, alongside management and computer-application programmes. Its 2026 programme list names 25 undergraduate programmes: B.A., B.Com. and B.Sc. in subject combinations, BBA (including a retail-operations apprenticeship-embedded programme), BCA, and four-year honours degrees in Economics and Computer Science, with intakes of 45 to 90 seats each. The NAAC self-study report names MBA, MCA and M.Sc. (IS) among its postgraduate courses. NIRF 2025 data for 2023-24 show 1,077 sanctioned seats in three-year undergraduate programmes, 60 in four-year programmes and 603 in two-year postgraduate programmes, with 3,940 students enrolled. Undergraduate admission runs through the TGCHE DOST portal and postgraduate admission is linked to the TGCHE CPGET portal.