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NEW GENRE PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES (SOUTH)

Estb. Prime focus Students Remarks
Christ University, 2008 Multidisciplinary — Law, Humanities, Engineering 20,000 India #8*
Bengaluru Karnataka #2
Presidency University, 2013 Multidisciplinary — Law, Management, Engineering 14,000 Karnataka #3
Bengaluru
Krea University, Sri City 2018 Multidisciplinary — Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, 607 India #6
Management Andhra Pradesh #1
GITAM, Visakhapatnam 2007 Multidisciplinary — Engineering & Technology, 6,000 Andhra Pradesh #2
Management, Pharmacy, Law
Azim Premji University, 2010 Social Science & Humanities - History, Philosophy, 1,100 India #1 (social sciences)
Bengaluru Social Science, Law & Development
Amrita Vishwa 2003 Multidisciplinary — Medicine, Engineering & 12,000 India #3
Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Technology Tamil Nadu #1

Vidyashilp University, 2021 Multidisciplinary — Data Science, Design, NA NA
Bengaluru Management, Law
Chanakya University 2021 Multidisciplinary — Humanities, Social Sciences, NA NA
Bengaluru Maths, Natural Science, Management

* EW India Higher Education Rankings2022-23

over, five schools and three research
centres offering liberal arts and sci-
ence projects are operational with
scholars researching 50 projects and
assignments. We are determined to
build a solid foundation for NU to
which students are returning after an
interregnum of almost 1,000 years. I
am very confident about the future of
this high-potential higher education
project,” says Dr. Singh.
A LTHOUGH WINDS of

change are blowing
across Central and state
higher education cam-
puses, reform and contemporisation
of government HEIs steeped in dead
habit and hobbled by vested interests Nalanda U 2.0 campus: “new icon of Asian renaissance”. Inset: Dr. Sunaina Singh
is likely to proceed at glacial pace. On
the other hand, the pace of reform, ments, India’s new genre post-liberal- 12 years of admitting the first batch of
teaching-learning innovation and isation private universities are catalys- 100 students into its law school, this
global benchmarking in the country’s ing a teaching-learning and research fast track university promoted with
new genre new millennium HEIs revolution that at long last offers real an initial endowment of Rs.500 crore
is fast and furious. And contrary to promise to meaningfully develop In- (going on to Rs.1,500 crore) from steel
popular belief, 70 percent of India’s dia’s abundant human resource, a tycoon Naveen Jindal, has acquired
institutions of higher education are prerequisite of national development. national and global reputation. Cur-
privately-promoted. Academically A case in point is the O.P. Jindal rently, JGU is ranked India’s #1 pri-
and financially independent and fully Global University, Sonipat, vate liberal arts university by Edu-
empowered by their host state govern- Haryana (JGU, estb.2009). Within cationWorld and #1 private varsity

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