The university’s Department of Journalism was set up as a unit of the Social Sciences facult. Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University could well claim to be a pioneer in mass communication education in India, for offering the first structured and well-planned journalism course after the country won freedom. The Department was renamed as the Department of Mass Communication and was shifted to its own building in the sprawling and verdant setting of the university’s post graduate teaching campus on Amravati Road, Nagpur. It is the first university department in the country to start a unique vocational P G Diploma in Video Programming (News and Current Affairs).