Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV; formerly National Rail and Transportation Institute) is India's first transport University located in

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. The University is presently located inside the lush green 55-acre campus of

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's apex training institution,

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(NAIR).

History

The University, a vision of

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of India

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, is India's first University exclusively focused on transport-related education, multidisciplinary research and training. Established as a Deemed to be University under the de Novo starting of something new] category, and converted to a Central University and named as Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) on 06/12/2022, the University is specifically established to create a resource pool for the

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and

transportation Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, ...

sector. A unique feature of programmes at GSV is the using "live laboratories", the facilities and infrastructure of

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and associated establishments. The University has forged academic partnerships with

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and top-ranked global universities including

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, United States;

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in Berkeley, United States; Russia University of Transport (MIIT) in Moscow, Russia; University of Birmingham, UK. and

St. Petersburg State Transport University Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University (PGUPS) (russian: Петербургский государственный университет путей сообщения Императора Александра I, abbreviat ...

List of courses

Currently, it is running following postgraduate and undergraduate programs -

Masters

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

(M.B.A.) in Logistics and Supply Chain Management *

(M.B.A.) in Transport Economics and Management *

Master of Science A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...

(M.Sc.) in Transportation Technology and Policy *

(M.Sc.) in Transportation Information Systems and Analytics *

(M.Sc.) in Railway Systems Engineering and Integration

Bachelors

Bachelor of Business Administration Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of business administration and usually including advanced ...

(B.B.A.) in Transportation Management *

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(B.Sc.) in Transportation Technology *

Bachelor of Technology A Bachelor of Technology (Latin ''Baccalaureus Technologiae'', commonly abbreviated as B.Tech. or BTech; with honours as B.Tech. (Hons.)) is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after the completion of a three to five-year program of studi ...

(B.Tech) in Rail Infrastructure Engineering *

(B.Tech) in Rail Systems & Communication Engineering *

(B.Tech) in Mechanical & Rail Engineering. At present, the University has more than 700 students enrolled from across Indian. Once the project is fully executed, it will have close to 3000 full-time residential students on its rolls, across five schools - Management & Leadership; Engineering & Applied Science; Transport Planning & Design; Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, and Transport Policy & Law.

Course and Curriculum

Both the undergraduate courses, BBA in

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and BSc in

Transportation Technology Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, ...

, run in trimester mode with nine trimesters in total, having a duration of three years and are worth 140 credits. There are two compulsory

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on offer for practical exposure, one with

at the end of first year, and the other one with industry, at the end of sophomore year. In addition, all the undergraduate students compulsorily have to submit a

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/project at the end of their degree. Syllabus for first year for both the degrees is the same, as it is foundational in nature. An indicative list of courses: Foundation - Dynamics of Transportation Ecosystems, Critical Thinking and Writing, Essentials of Business and Technology,

Design Thinking Design thinking refers to the set of cognitive, strategic and practical procedures used by designers in the process of designing, and to the body of knowledge that has been developed about how people reason when engaging with design problems. Des ...

Systems Thinking & Application A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and expresse ...

, Fundamentals of

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

Environmental Sciences Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...

and Sustainability,

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Data Analytics Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. It also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making. It ...

and Representation, Foundations of Leadership and Sociological Contexts of Transportation Management - Principles of

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and

Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

, Principles of

Marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

, Business Communication, Managerial Economics, Business Analytics Models,

Supply Chain In commerce, a supply chain is a network of facilities that procure raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products to customers through a distribution system. It refers to the network of organizations, people, acti ...

Planning and Control, Supply Chain Decision Modelling, Operations Management Strategy, Purchase and Materials Management, Special Topics in Transportation Management Technology - Principles of

Information Systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, information storage, store, and information distribution, distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems a ...

, Transportation Technologies of the 21st Century, Research Design,

Mathematical Modelling A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language. The process of developing a mathematical model is termed mathematical modeling. Mathematical models are used in the natural sciences (such as physics, ...

, Transportation Models and Quantitative Methods,

Dynamic Programming Dynamic programming is both a mathematical optimization method and a computer programming method. The method was developed by Richard Bellman in the 1950s and has found applications in numerous fields, from aerospace engineering to economics. I ...

and Decision Processes, Applied Transportation Technology, Special Topics in Transportation Technology

Admissions

Admissions to the University are only offered via a national-level i.e. JEE (Main) and CUET-UG & PG conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA). Eligibility and Process The eligibility to apply for the academic programmes at GSV is as follows: MBA in Transport Economics & Management or Logistics & Supply Chain Management (UG degree in any stream with Maths or Statistics, and minimum 55% aggregate marks (50% for OBC/SC/ST), Candidates with CAT, XAT or MAT scores are exempted from entrance Test, CUET-PG) MSc in Transportation Technology and Policy or Transport Information Systems and Analytics or Railway System Engineering and Integration (UG degree in any stream with Maths or Statistics, and minimum 55% aggregate marks (50% for OBC/SC/ST)) B.Tech in Rail Systems and Communication Engineering (12th with PCM, admission on JEE mains score basis) B.Tech in Rail Infrastructure Engineering (12th with PCM, admission on JEE mains score basis) BBA in Transportation Management All Streams (10 + 2 with Math) BSc in Transportation Technology Science Stream (10 + 2 with Math) Applicants must have successfully completed their 10 + 2 Board examination with at least 55% marks (50% for OBC/SC/ST) and be below the age of 25 years as on August 1 of the said year of admission. NRTI follows Government Regulations with respect to reservations, which is as follows: *General - 40.5% *OBC - 27% *SC - 15% *ST - 7.5% *EWS - 10% Supernumerary seats will also be considered for PwD, Kashmiri Migrants and Ex-Servicemen, as per Government Regulations. The Merit list Rank for respective categories (GEN, OBC, EWS, SC, ST & EWS) are based on Entrance Test scores and are published on the GSV website post result declaration. Provisionally selected students, along with high ranked waitlisted candidates, are called for counselling at the NRTI campus, Vadodara. If there are any vacant seats after the 1st round of counselling, additional waitlisted students are called in the order of merit for the 2nd round of counselling.

Timeline

* May 2018: NRTI given Deemed to be University status by University Grants Commission. * Sep 2018: Academic sessions starts. 103 students shortlisted on basis of NRTI Aptitude test held in July-2018 for fully residential three year Bachelor of Science in Transportation Technology and Bachelor of Business Administration in Transport Management. * Dec 2018: NRTI dedicated to nation by Railway minister Piyush Goyal and Chief Minister of Gujarat Vijay Rupani.

References

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