Banaras Hindu University is an institution in Varanasi, India. The university has six institutes and 14 faculties and is home to over 20,000 students. It was founded in 1916 and is now one of the largest residential universities in Asia.

Students at Banaras Hindu University can follow subject spanning the full academic spectrum by pursuing programs in one of the 14 faculties:

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Ayurveda
• Faculty of Commerce
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Performing Arts
• Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vijnan Sankaya
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Visual