Osmania University is a collegiate public state university located in University town, Hyderabad, India, and founded in 1918.[2] It was established by and named after Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad. It is the third oldest university in southern India, and the first to be established in the erstwhile Kingdom of Hyderabad.[3][4][5] It is the first Indian university to have Urdu as a medium of instruction.[2] As of 2012, the university hosts 3,700 international students from more th