The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. In 1944, it was renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences . The year 1964 was an important landmark in the history of the Institute , when it was declared Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956. Tata Institute of Social Sciences , V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai-400088. +91 (22)25525000 Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a multi-campus public university in Mumbai, India. It is Asia's oldest institute for professional social work education and was founded in 1936 in the then Bombay Presidency of British India as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. [3] Tata Group has also established premier institutions such as the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and Tata Memorial Hospital, a cancer care center.
