Surrounded by lush green hill range far from madding crowd, lies the 600-acre campus of growing Assam University, a central university constituted under Act XIII of 1989.

The University is not only a centre for higher education, it epitomizes the fulfillment of a long cherished aspiration. There is hardly any instance in the history of education in India that people fought a relentless battle for a university for over three decades and in the process, withstood repression and torture.