University of Yangon (UY / formerly University of Rangoon / Rangoon Arts and Sciences University)

Founded 1920 (chartered as University of Rangoon under the Rangoon University Act 1920 by British colonial administration through merger of Rangoon College 1884 — affiliated with Calcutta University — and Judson College (American Baptist mission); modelled on British universities. Renamed Rangoon Arts and Sciences University 1964 after 1962 military coup d'état when its specialised faculties were spun off as separate institutions. Renamed University of Yangon 1989 under SLORC junta when Burma was renamed Myanmar. OLDEST university in Myanmar; celebrated centenary 2020). THE OLDEST AND HISTORICALLY MOST IMPORTANT UNIVERSITY IN MYANMAR — chartered 1920 as University of Rangoon under the Rangoon University Act 1920 by British colonial administration. Predecessor institutions: Rangoon College 1884 (affiliated with University of Calcutta during the British India period) and Judson College (American Baptist Mission). Modelled on British universities. Celebrated centenary 2020. Located in Kamayut Township on the southwestern bank of Inya Lake — distinctive lakeside historic campus. Closely associated with BURMESE NATIONALISM AND ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENT — student strikes at the university in 1920, 1936, and 1938 were significant events in Myanmar's independence movement. In the 1950s, Rangoon University was regarded as one of THE LEADING UNIVERSITIES IN ASIA. Notable alumni: AUNG SAN (independence leader, father of Aung San Suu Kyi), U NU (first PM), U THANT (UN Secretary-General 1961-71), and several other Myanmar presidents and prime ministers. TRAGIC POLITICAL HISTORY: After the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, the university was reorganised as Rangoon Arts and Sciences University, stripped of autonomy, and its faculties separated into specialised institutions. 7 July 1962 student uprising — dozens of students shot, students' union building destroyed. 1988 8888 Uprising — major student-led pro-democracy movement. 2021 February coup context: faculty Civil Disobedience Movement, mass boycott, international degree recognition contested. ~21 departments + Universities' Research Centre. Offers BA, BSc, BA(Hons), BSc(Hons), MA, MSc, Diploma, PhD programmes. PhD since 1994; has produced 5,200+ PhD graduates.

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