Azim Premji University
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| Motto | Work towards a just, humane, equitable and sustainable society. |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 2010 |
| Chancellor | Azim Premji |
| Vice-Chancellor | Anurag Behar |
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Academic staff
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120 |
| Undergraduates | 105 |
| Postgraduates | 300 (2012) |
| Location | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Website | azimpremjiuniversity |
Azim Premji University was established as a not-for-profit, private autonomous university under the Azim Premji University Act 2010 of the Karnataka Legislature in India. The mission of Azim Premji University is to create outstanding and effective programmes of learning, research and advocacy in education, development and allied fields like health, nutrition, and livelihood. The university aims at facilitating systemic change in education and allied development areas by conducting extensive research, developing new talent, and creating domain knowledge.
The Azim Premji Foundation is the sponsor of the university. Azim Premji is the chancellor of the university and Anurag Behar is the vice chancellor.
The university offers post-graduate courses in Education and in Development (M.A. in Education and M.A. in Development). Starting July 2015, it will offer undergraduate programme leading to a degree in Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). Specializations will be offered in the Humanities (combined History, Literature and Philosophy), Sciences (Physics, Biology) and Economics. Students will also have the opportunity to take up research and projects to obtain an honours degree. This will be a will be a full-time, three-year, residential programme.
The campus is on Hosur Road on the outskirts of Bangalore in Karnataka, India, which is a leased premise. The private campus is under construction between Attibele and Sarjapura.
Azim Premji University was established by the Azim Premji Foundation (APF). APF is a non-profit organization focused on primary education. The University was founded as one of the key responses to the constraints and challenges that the Foundation encountered both within and in the environment, and as part of a larger strategy to contribute to the Education and Development sectors in the country. The university was granted its charter by the Karnataka Legislative Assembly through The Azim Premji University Act of 2010.
The degree programmes offered are aimed at socially committed students. The university began with the launch of two post-graduate programmes: Master of Arts in Education and Master of Arts in Development with a few specializations.
The first academic session started in August 2011. The first batch of 86 students who joined in July 2011 completed their two-year program in May 2013. The university held its first convocation ceremony on 1 October 2013 at Bangalore. The governor of Karnataka, Hans Raj Bhardwaj, who is the Visitor of the University and Azim Premji, chancellor of the university, presented degrees to the first batch.
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