Andhra University is not just one of the oldest educational institutions in the country, but is also the first to be conceived as a residential and teaching-cum-affiliating University, mainly devoted to post-graduate teaching and research. The people of the State have an emotional attachment to the institution, since it came into being after a prolonged and collective struggle of the Telugu elite for a University in the educationally backward northern Circars and Ceded districts of the erstwh...
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Andhra University was established in 1925 and shared affiliating responsibilities with Madras University in the initial years. It was constituted by the Madras Act of 1926. The 82-year-old institution is fortunate to have Sir C.R. Reddy as its founder Vice-Chancellor, as the steps taken by this visionary proved to be fruitful in the long run. The University College of Arts was inaugurated on 1 st July, 1931. The University pioneered in introducing many new courses in Science, Arts, Management...
The College of Science & Technology was started in the year 1931 as the combined Colleges of Arts, Science and Technology, and it was bifurcated in the year 1966 with Prof. R.Ramanadham as its first principal. The college has a total strength of nearly 2000 students, 100 research scholars, 232 teaches and 276 administrative and supporting staff. It is the biggest constituent college of the University with a teacher to student ratio of nearly 1:12.
Established in 1968, Dr. V. S. Krishna Government Degree College, then non-Autonomous established in 1968, was inaugurated by His Excellency Sri. Khandubhai K. Desai, Governor of Andhra Pradesh on 12th December 1968. The College was shifted from the University Campus to Visakha valley area which is 3 KMs away from the present premises in 1969. Owing to keen interest showed by District Collectors Sri C. Arjuna Rao IAS, and Sri K. V. Rao, IAS who helped in acquiring land, the college was shifte...