Noorul Islam University (formerly Noorul Islam College of Engineering) is a private co-educational university, The university was founded in 1989 by Dr.A.P.Majeed khan, who is now its chancellor with a motto to provide quality education to the students. Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education comprising of the Noorul Islam College of Engineering as its constituent teaching unit, has been declared as a Deemed-to-be-University by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of Higher Education), Government of India under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956, on the advice of the UGC, vide Notification No.F.9-51/2004-U.3 dated 8th December 2008.