The Department of Education was started in 1956 and with the launch of Ph.D. programme it became one of the earliest University Departments in India to do so. The department has been recognized by the UGC for its high standards of teaching and research and has been identified for the DSA scheme (1986), as National Centre for Curriculum Development in Education (1986) and for instituting ASARCO fellowship (1988).
The department has a library with 20,000 volumes with 1,500 theses making it a reference center for students from all over the country.The Centre for Educational Technology attached to the Department has a video laboratory and a learning lab.