Tata Institute of Social Sciences

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Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Motto in English	Re-Imagining Futures
Type	Public university
Established	1936; 88 years ago (1936)
Founder	J. R. D. Tata
Academic staff	289[1]
Students	4,115[1]
Undergraduates	516[1]
Postgraduates	2,371[1]
Doctoral students	1,228[1]
Location	Mumbai , Maharashtra , India 19°02′39″N 72°54′45″E / 19.044257°N 72.912494°E / 19.044257; 72.912494
Campus	Urban, 21 acres (0.085 km2) (Main Campus and Naoroji Campus)
Acronym	TISS
Affiliations	UGC Washington University in St. Louis McDonnell International Scholars Academy[2] BRICS Universities League
Website	www.tiss.edu www.campus.tiss.edu

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a multi-campus public university in Mumbai, India. It is Asia's oldest institute for professional social work education and was founded in 1936 in the then Bombay Presidency of British India as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.^[3] In 1944, the institute was officially renamed the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and in 1964, the Government of India declared TISS a deemed university under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956.^[4]

In 1954, TISS moved to a permanent campus at Deonar, Mumbai (now known as the Main Campus), from the earlier campuses at Nagpada and then Andheri.^[5] In 2001, the Deonar campus was expanded to include the Malti Jal and Jal A. D. Naoroji Campus Annexe, which are now commonly known as the New Campus. TISS, in 1986, established a rural campus in Tuljapur, Maharashtra and two off-campuses in Guwahati and Hyderabad in 2011. In addition to these campuses, TISS offers teaching, training, research, and development support from centres established across India including in Leh, Ladakh and Port Blair, the Andaman and Nicobar.^[6]

TISS's academic programs focus on the social sciences and offer post-graduate and doctoral degrees in Habitat Studies, Management and Labour Studies, Disaster Studies, Development Studies, Education, Gender Studies, Health Studies, Law, Media and Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Rural Development and Social Work. Since its inception TISS has had a focus on field action including responding to disasters such as the Partition of India,^[7] the Bhopal disaster^[8] and Uttarakhand floods.^[9] Several TISS initiatives have shaped public policy in India, such as India's labour welfare laws.^[10] Notable organizations and personalities have been appreciative of TISS's social service work including Eleanor Roosevelt,^[5] Jawaharlal Nehru,^[5] Niels Bohr^[11] and the United Nations,^[7] among others.