Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (Sri Padmavati University) is a women's university in

Tirupati Tirupati () is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Tirupati district. The city is home to the important Hindu shrine of Tirumala Venkateswara Temple and other historic temples and is re ...

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

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. It was established as a state university by the Andhra Pradesh legislature in 1983 to provide Higher Education in general & professional areas for women. It is named after the goddess Sri

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, the consort of Lord

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. The university has approximately 3,000 students. It admits students from all regions of Andhra Pradesh. Funds for development are received from the UGC and State Government. The university is accredited with 'A+' grade by the

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. Prof. Duvvuru Jamuna was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor in January, 2020. University Entrance

Academics

Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam is a unitary university with 16 departments having 52 programme options: five

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, four

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, 16

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, 14 M.Phil., and 14 Ph.D. programmes. Remedial teaching for the academically weaker students and the organisation of pre-examination coaching to backward community students are undertaken. New features are courses that have a great demand in the job market such as MBA in Media Management, Integrated (five-year) course in Bio Technology, Bachelor of Physical Education and BioInformatics. The university also offers courses in Distance Education mode.

Campus

The campus of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam covers 138 acres (56 hectares) in a semi-urban area at the foot of the sacred

Tirumala Tirumala is a spiritual town in Tirupati district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the suburbs of the Tirupati urban agglomeration. The town is a part of Tirupati Urban Development Authority and located in Tirupati (rura ...

Hills.

Linkages

The university has linkages with foreign universities and national organisations. Some notable linkages are: * Staff development programme with the Department of Education,

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, UK, with financial assistance from the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education and the British Council through the overseas Development Administrative Programme. * Women Entrepreneurship Development with the Department of Business Management and Entrepreneurship,

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, Canada. * An exchange programme with the Chinese Government for the promotion of research in

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References

Report (2002?) by National Assessment and Accreditation Council, India

External links

Official website
Women's universities and colleges in Andhra Pradesh Universities and colleges in Tirupati Educational institutions established in 1983 1983 establishments in Andhra Pradesh {{AndhraPradesh-university-stub