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- It offers courses in Latin American Studies and is one of the few universities in India to do so. The centre as per the UGC's recommendation offers a post graduate course in International Studies. The centre has signed a memorandum with the College of Naval Warfare Mumbai and with the School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi and with the University of Colima, Mexico. The centre offers MA M.Phil and Ph.D. The Centre has organised several national and international conferences in the last fifteen years. The centre has been reviewed by the UGC and the Academic Audit of the University and had been given encouraging reports.
- The UGC has recently sanctioned a Jawahralal Nehru study centre to the university
- Goa University claims to have one of the "best teacher-student ratios". But it has also been criticised for having a limited number of students.
- It has established a remote sensing laboratory, with financial and technical assistance from the Indian Space Research Organisation.
- The university is in the Western Ghats region, which is known to be rich in flora and fauna.
- Goa University has set up a unit for fungus-culture collection and research.
- Goa University has signed memoranda of understanding with a number of institutions, including the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, Universidade Moderna and University of Aveiro in Portugal, National Centre for Software Technology, Mumbai, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, among others.
- Goa University offers a course on online programme in GIS, in association with the Centre for Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria.
- Goa University's MCA (Master of Computer Applications) course conducted by Department of Computer Science and Technology (DCST) provides updated technical skills, industry level education, training for job (as part of 6th semester internship), an IT industry tour and holds a 100% placement record since its inception.
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