Andhra University
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| Motto | Thejasvina-Vadhitamastu |
| Motto in English | May the Divine Light Illuminate Our Studies |
| Established | 1926 |
| Type | Public |
| Vice-Chancellor |
Prof. G.S.N. Raju B.E (ECE), M.E., Ph.D (IIT-KGP), FIE,FIETE, MIEEE (USA), FSEMCE, LMISTE,FDAAD (Germany) |
| Location | Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India 17°43′45.38″N 83°19′17.61″E / 17.7292722°N 83.3215583°ECoordinates: 17°43′45.38″N 83°19′17.61″E / 17.7292722°N 83.3215583°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | www.andhrauniversity.info |
Andhra University or Andhra Viswa Kala Parishad (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర యూనివర్శిటి / ఆంధ్ర విశ్వకళాపరిషత్), located in Visakhapatnam, north east coastal Andhra Pradesh, is one of the older premier universities in India with a broad focus. Presently it is among the top universities in India for engineering. It was established in 1926[1] and shared affiliating responsibilities with Madras University in the initial years.
Infrastructure
The university contains two sections, the south campus and north campus. The south campus houses the Arts, Humanities and Sciences departments along with the administrative block. The north campus (established in 1962), comprises the engineering College.
The university has four constituent colleges. The college of arts and commerce is the biggest constituent college in the university with 28 departments offering 55 courses. The college of science and technology has 19 departments, which offers 44 courses. The college of engineering has 16 departments involving in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The college of law has been identified as an advanced center in law by University Grants Commission.
The university has a school of distance education (started 1972). The school has 32 study centers across the state and a study center at New Delhi.
The university campus has 19 hostels for men and 4 hostels exclusively for women that accommodate more than 4,300 students. Residential accommodation of 340 units of staff quarters is available on the university campus. The university also has three Health Centres, a homeopathy dispensary, three guest houses, a faculty club, an open air theatre and a campus school for the children of university school.
AU Colleges
- Andhra University College of Arts and Commerce (Estd. 1931)
- Andhra University College of Engineering (Estd. 1955)
- Andhra University College of Engineering for Women (Estd. 2010)
- Andhra University College of Law (Estd. 1945)
- Andhra University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Estd. 1951)
- Andhra University College of Science and Technology (Estd. 1931)
- Andhra University School of Distance Education (Estd. 1972)
Campuses outside the university
It has established campuses outside Visakhapatnam to meet demand for post-graduate education. Campuses are located in Etcherla, Srikakulam district, Kakinada, East Godavari district, Tadepalligudem, West Godavari district and Vizianagaram. An earlier campus at Guntur City, established in 1967, became Acharya Nagarjuna University in 1976. Adikavi Nannaya University is formed in 2006 taken the affiliated colleges from East and West Godavari districts.
Affiliations
There are 575 affiliated colleges spread across five districts under the territorial jurisdiction of Andhra University. The enrollment in undergraduate courses is more than 77,000 and in PG Courses more than 20,000 students. The University is supported by about 860 teachers and more than 2500 non-teaching and technical staff.
Agricultural Biotechnology
The course was started in 2004 and has been successfully running with good placement record relatively. The course runs under the Department of Botany with well provided teaching faculty. Scope for finding a job with this course is much higher compared to other applied subjects like Biotechnology, Microbiology and Biochemistry. The curriculum includes basic as well as diverse areas related to agriculture and biotechnology as well. These include Biostatistics - taught by M. V. Subba Rao, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics - taught by K. Uma Devi and few other papers include Seed Technology, Plant Breeding, Plant Metabolic Engineering, Genetic Engineering etc. The students are well guided for entrance exams like CSIR and GATE.
Distinctions
Andhra University is the first university in India to offer an under graduate programme from 1957.
Kala Prapoorna
The honorary doctorate degree of ‘Kala Prapoorna' (Sangha Seva) may be given in the Faculties of Engineering and Kala Prapoorna (Krishi) in the Faculty of Agriculture, ‘Kala Prapoorna' (Sangeeta), (Natya), (Nataka), (Chitra) or (Silpa) in the Faculty of Fine Arts and ‘Kala Prapoorna' (Sahitya) in the Faculty of ‘Oriental Learning'.
Awardees
This is the list of Kalaprapoorna Awardees taken from the 83rd Annual Report of Andhra University of 2008-09.[2]
- Vedam Venkataraya Sastry (1927)
- Janamanchi Seshadri Sarma (1937)
- Kapisthanam Desikacharyulu (1937)
- Sripada Krishnamurty Sastry (1937)
- Tata Subbaraya Sastry (1937)
- Chellapilla Venkata Sastry (1938)
- Gidugu Venkata Ramamoorty (1938)
- Jayanthi Ramayya Pantulu (1938)
- Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao (1938)
- Vikram Deo Varma (1941)
- Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham (1943)
- Tripura Venkata Surya Prasada Rao (1943)
- Chilukuri Narayana Rao (1947)
- Vaijjhal Chine Seetharamaswamy Sastri (1947)
- Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (1950)
- Rajah Meka Venkatadri Appa Rao (1953)
- Rajah Nayani Venkata Ranga Rao (1953)
- Rajah Ravu Venkata Kumar Mahipathi Surya Rao (1953)
- Vavilla Venkateswara Sastrulu (1955)
- Kasi Krishnacharya (1964)
- Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1964)
- Gidugu Venkata Sitapathi (1965)
- Peri Venkateswara Sastri (1968)
- Gurram Jashuva (1969)
- Tummala Sitarama Murty (1969)
- Boyi Bhimanna (1971)
- Kondaviti Venkatakavi (1971)
- P. Satyanarayana Raju (1971)
- S. T. G. Varadachary (1971)
- Vadlamudi Gopalakrishnayya (1971)
- Duvvuri Venkataramana Sastry (1972)
- Kondur Veera Ragavacharyulu (1972)
- Atamakuri Govindacharyulu (1973)
- Nidudavolu Venkatarao (1973)
- Puripanda Appala Swamy (1973)
- Abburi Ramakrishna Rao (1974)
- Gnanananda Kavi (1974)
- K. V. N. Appa Rao (1974)
- Kotha Satyanarayana Chowdary (1974)
- Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (1974)
- Dasaradhi (1975)
- Devulapalli Krishnasastri (1975)
- G. Jogi Somayaji (1975)
- G. V. Chalam (1975)
- Kotagiri Venkata Krishna Rao (1975)
- Nagabhushanam (1975)
- Namburi Durwasa Maharshi (1975)
- Oruganti Narasimhamurthy Sastry (1975)
- P. Bhanumathi Ramakrishna (1975)
- P. Sivashankara Swamy (1975)
- A. Ramesh Chowdary (1977)
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1977)
- Avasarala Anasuya Devi (1977)
- K. Satchidananda Raut Roy (1977)
- Moturi Satyanarayana (1977)
- Rayaprolu Subba Rao (1977)
- Vedula Suryanarayana Sarma (1977)
- C. Narayana Reddy (1978)
- Gottipati Brahmayya (1978)
- Mullapudi Thimmaraju (1978)
- N. T. Rama Rao (1978)
- Nayani Subba Rao (1978)
- N. Venu Madhav (1978)
- Paidi Lakshmayya (1978)
- Pasala Suryachandra Rao (1978)
- R. V. M. G. Rama Rao (1978)
- Ravi Narayana Reddy (1978)
- Ravuri Venkata Satyanarayana (1978)
- S. Pinakapani (1978)
- Tenneti Hemalata (1978)
- Utukuri Lakshmikantamma (1978)
- Vinjamuri Siva Rama Rao (1978)
- Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao (1980)
- Nataraja Ramakrishna (1980)
- Ravuri Bharadwaja (1980)
- Vempati Chinna Satyam (1980)
- Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastry (1982)
- Mikkilineni Radhakrishna Murthy (1982)
- Vemparala Suryanarayana Sastry (1982)
- Ammula Viswanadha Bhagavatar (1984)
- Challapalli Chitti Babu (1984)
- Manchala Jagannadha Rao (1984)
- Pandit Gopadev (1984)
- Arudra (1985)
- Inturi Venkateswara Rao (1985)
- Kosaraju Raghavaiah (1985)
- L. V. Prasad (1985)
- Peddinti Anantha Venkata Lakshmi (1985)
- Sheik Chinna Moulana (1985)
- Dasari Narayana Rao (1986)
- D. Y. Sampath Kumar (1986)
- K. Satchidananda Murthy (1986)
- Cheria Ganapathi Sastry (1988)
- Dara Appala Narayana (1988)
- Janapati Varalakshmi (1988)
- Bapu (artist) (1990)
- C. S. Naidu (1990)
- D. Sanyasi (1990)
- Domada Chittabbayi (1990)
- E. V. Chinnayya (1990)
- Korukonda Subba Raju (1990)
- Rao Gopala Rao (1990)
- Trupuraneni Venkateswara Rao (1990)
- Ganapatiraju Atchutarama Raju (1993)
- Peesapati Narasimha Murty (1993)
- Pothukuchi Sambasiva Rao (1993)
- Tadepalli Venkanna (1993)
- A. Paidi Raju (1997)
- C. Kanakamba Raju (1997)
- G. B. Rajendra Prasad (1997)
- K. S. Tilak (1997)
- P. Suseela (1997)
- Turlapati Kutumba Rao (1997)
- Kongara Jaggayya
- K. V. Gopalaswamy
- Konidala Chiranjeevi (2006)
- Ghattamaneni Krishna (2008)
- Jaladi Raja Rao (2008)
- S. P. Balasubramanyam (2009)
References
- ^ "Welcome to Andhra University". andhrauniversity.info. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
- ^ 83rd Annual Report of Andhra University of 2008-09.
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