The Central Institute of English was the brainchild of the 1st P.Mof India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. To meet the demands of language teachers across the nation, the institution set up two Regional Centres: one in Shillong and another in Lucknow

It offers many programs in field of:
English Distance
Foreign distance
English residential
Foreign residential



The various departments and schools are:

Preamble
School of english language education
School of language sciences
School of english literary studies
School of distance education
School of communication studies
School of inter-disciplinary studies
School of middle-east and african studies
School of asian studies
School of germanic studies
School of romance studies
School of russian studies

Various facilities provided by the institute for the students are:

Electronic reading centre for students with special needs
Computer lab
Multimedia digital language laboratory
Language laboratories


Contact numbers for Hyderabad Campus:
27098131
27689400

The official website:
efluniversity.ac.in/