• Dr. Azibur Rahman

Higher education implies dissemination of knowledge at higher level in the area of teaching, research, and extension programmes. Higher education has three levels, under graduate, post- graduate and post-doctoral education. In India the colleges have taken a big responsibility of higher education to discharge information, knowledge, skills, and wisdom to the people. Colleges as integral part of higher education, plays crucial role in human resource development and social transformation from traditional to modern one. In terms of status and statutory mandates different nomenclatures are used with the name of a college as such the Autonomous colleges, constituent colleges and affiliated colleges, Government and provincialized colleges. There are several types of higher educational institutions for research such as central universities, state universities, institutions for national importance, deemed universities, autonomous institutions etc. in our country. Central Universities came into existence after the creation of UGC in 1956. There were 46 central universities, majority of them were created in 2009.

Higher education, Research, Statutory mandates, Institutional status, Undergraduate College.

"THE RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES OF TINSUKIA AND DIBRUGARH DISTRICTS OF ASSAM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no.b167-b173, March-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203121.pdf

"THE RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES OF TINSUKIA AND DIBRUGARH DISTRICTS OF ASSAM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no. ppb167-b173, March-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203121.pdf