Notable animals include spotted deer, hares, peacocks, porcupines and wild boar.

[8] A study, which ranged over three decades (1990–2010), reported that of the plants present on campus, 315 species were used in traditional Indian medicine.

The university has plans to preserve the area under forest cover and wetlands by creating a bio reserve.

The university follows the continuous assessment pattern, with 40% marks awarded through assignments spread out through the semester and 60% through semester-end examinations.

This present library building was inaugurated by Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then Vice President of India, on 21 October 1988 and named after late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

The library also created learning environment by establishing Online Public Access Catalog (WebOPAC), OPAC Searching Area, Internet browsing area, Laptop zone with Wi-Fi facility, specialised workstations & software for visually-challenged students and by facilitating electronic resources, search services/tools.

The library serves as a resources station to all scholars and has a print collection around 400,000, that include monographs, text books, back volumes of journals, theses / dissertations, CDs/DVDs.

It subscribes around 500 print journals in various disciplines of the university and provides access to more than 25,000 e-resources including e-books.

To support its educational mission, the university established the Centre for Integrated Studies (CIS)[18][19]in the academic year 2006–07.

The CIS offers five-year Integrated Master’s Degree programs across various disciplines, aiming to provide specialized, in-depth education to students who have completed their higher secondary education (10+2 level).It was renamed as College for Integrated Studies in 2014.

The library includes a separate newspaper section featuring nine different editions and eight magazines, along with numerous academic journals.

Lab for Visually Challenged Students: CIS maintains a specialized lab for visually challenged students, featuring 10 computer systems with assistive technology, including a Braille printer, JAWS and NVDA screen-reading software, and a ZOOM-X scanner.

Activities span guest lectures, film screenings, quizzes, debates, workshops, and sports.

Students can access counseling services as needed, and the DSW office organizes orientation sessions and group workshops throughout the year.

SIP's strength is its flexibility and willing to innovate to meet the needs of universities and study abroad consortia.

[21] The University of Hyderabad started offering Post Graduate Diploma Programmes through distance mode since 1994.

The target groups identified for these Programmes are (a) In service personnel looking forward to improve their skills and knowledge to enable to go up in the ladder in their own organisation or elsewhere and (b) Fresh graduate intending to improve their chances of employments on successful completion of these programmes.

Established in 1987 as a major initiative in augmenting quality in Higher Education, the UGC promoted 66 Academic Staff Colleges.

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Peer Review Committee from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) visited Academic Staff College during 19 – 21 January 2012 for peer reviewing of its activities and accredited this Academic Staff College, University of Hyderabad as ranked no.

Incorporated as a not-for-profit company, ILS has been accorded recognition as a Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Ministry of Science & Technology.

[25] The CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS) has been set up with the objective of promoting research and advanced studies in mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and allied subjects.

The association was established on the initiative of leading management Schools in the SAARC region and is located on the University of Hyderabad Campus in Gachibowli.

The CV Raman Auditorium, with a capacity of 200, is located inside the science complex, and serves as a conference and seminar hall.

[31][32] In connection with 'Gandhi Jayanti Week' Celebrations National Service Scheme(NSS) Cell, organises Peace March, Orientation Programmes, Tree plantation etc.

The tournament is named in memory of an Ex-student Mr. Narayan Reddy (Nari) who met with an unfortunate death in the campus premises.

[37] On 22 March 2016, police arrested 25 students and 2 faculty members who were reportedly protesting against the Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile's return to campus following the suicide of Rohith Vemula.