Sardar Patel University

Sardar Patel University (SP University)
સરદાર પટેલ યુનિવર્સિટી
Motto शीलवृत्तफलं श्रुतम्
Motto in English
 Character and Conduct are the Fruits of Learning
Type Public
Established 1955
Chancellor HE Governor of Gujarat by virtue of his office.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Harish Padh
Location Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
22°33′18″N 72°55′30″E / 22.555°N 72.925°E / 22.555; 72.925Coordinates: 22°33′18″N 72°55′30″E / 22.555°N 72.925°E / 22.555; 72.925
Affiliations UGC,NAAC
Website www.spuvvn.edu/

Sardar Patel University (SPU) is a university in Gujarat, India. It is named after Vallabhbhai Patel, and was founded in December 1955 by an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the then-Bombay Province and was UGC recognized under 2(f) of the UGC Act in October 1968. Originally it had the status of a rural university but now it has diversified with the motto of "Excellence Matters". The university is the first among all the universities in Gujarat to volunteer for the accreditation in 2000. Sardar Patel University is listed among Top 30 Universities in India.

History

The Sardar Patel University was dream of Shri Bhaikaka.Bhaikaka was thus at the peak of his career as an Engineer when he sought premature retirement from Government Service in 1940 at the behest of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and joined Ahmedabad Municipality as Chief Engineer. This was the time when his mentor, Sardar Patel began to visualise what a soon-to-be independent India would require, and advised him to give up all this and help him in transforming Charotar into the focal point of India by serving the rural countryside so as to control migration of people from villages to towns in search of education, employment and healthcare. Bhaikaka resigned from this office too in 1942 at the behest of Sardar Patel, and was appointed as Chairman of Charotar Education Society in Anand, a few years before moving on to what we now know as the township of Vallabh Vidyanagar on 3 March 1946, but not before registering Charutar Vidya Mandal as a Charitable Education Trust on 10 August 1945. What was once a wilderness at the tri-junction of Karamsad, Bakrol and Anand thus became Vallabh Vidyanagar, and the ‘Vallabh’ was prefixed to ‘Vidyanagar’ in recognition of Sardar’s advice to work for rural uplift. Containing migration required that the reasons for migration be addressed, and Bhaikaka began to work on a plan together with Shri Bhikhabhai Patel, a dedicated and farsighted educationist, who shared Bhaikaka’s vision.

Location

Anand-Vidyanagar is on the Vadodara-Ahmedabad line of the Western Railway in the heart of Anand District of Gujarat.It is well connected with the rest of the country by railway network and roads.It is flanked by the two major airports of Gujarat:Sardar Patel International Airport at Ahmedabad and the Vadodara Airport,Vadodara.Vidyanagar is considered as Gujarat education hub.Vidyanagar is also known for student friendly environment and student diversity.

Departments and affiliated colleges

Affiliated colleges

Arts

Architecture

Commerce

Education

Fine Arts

Home Science

Law

Medical and Paramedical

Science

Social Work

N.S.Patel Institute of Social Work,Anand IILYAS Institute of Social Work,Vallabh Vidyanagar Jeevkiran Institute of Social Work,Vallabh Vidyanagar

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