Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati was
established in 1954, in the world famous temple town of Tirupati on the
sprawling campus of 1000 acres with a panoramic and pleasant hill view. This
University stands as a testimony to the wisdom and foresight of great
visionaries Late Sri Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu, the then Chief Minister of
Andhra Pradesh and Late Sri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, to cater the educational
needs and aspirations of the people of Rayalaseema area. With a great wisdom,
the founder of this University have rightly coined the motto “Wisdom lies in
proper perspective” for it. The University has grown excellently from strength
to strength over the past fifty-nine years, as a premier institute of higher
learning under the able and committed leaderships of successive
Vice-Chancellors starting from Prof. S. Govindarajulu Naidu to the present
Vice-Chancellor Prof. W. Rajendra. It has gone through greater strides in the
transformation of the University with acquiring necessary and modern
sophisticated instrumentation to catch up with the world competition in academic
and research programmes.
Right from its inception, the University has been
laying more emphasis on teaching, research and extension activities in
different subjects. The range of subject departments, courses and research
programmes undertaken and promoted during the last fifty-nine years reflects
Sri Venkateswara University’s commitment in promoting socially relevant and inter-disciplinary
programmes. The initiatives taken by the present Vice-Chancellor Prof. W.
Rajendra have already started yielding excellent results, in terms of research
funding, extension activities and thus keeping the University on the path of
excellence.
