Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CBS), Mumbai

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, and the University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari Campus jointly established Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CBS) in 2007 to offer high-quality undergraduate teaching embedded in a postgraduate and research environment. CBS offers a five-year Integrated M.Sc. program in the basic sciences for students with a modern, flexible, integrated and seamless curriculum with considerable emphasis on practical training and development of analytical and problem-solving skills in addition to formal learning. Some of the best teachers from University of Mumbai departments and University of Mumbai-affiliated colleges, and from proximate partner institutions like Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IIT Bombay and the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, have helped design courses and are participating in teaching activities of the centre in the areas of physics, life sciences, mathematics, chemistry.