University in Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sardar Patel University (SPU) is a public state university in Vallabh Vidyanagar, a Anand City Gujarat, India. It is named after the iron man of India Vallabhbhai Patel, and was founded in October 1955 by an Act of the Legislative Assembly [2] 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 Sardar Patel University was the dream of Shri Bhaikaka. In fact, Bhaikaka was at the peak of his career as an engineer, when he sought early retirement from Government Service in 1940 at the behest of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and joined Ahmedabad Municipality as a chief engineer. This was the time when his mentor, Sardar Patel, began to visualise what a soon-to-be independent India would require. Patel advised Bhaikaka to give up engineering and help Patel in transforming Charotar into the focal point of India. Serving the rural countryside would 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.
Anand-Vidyanagar is on the Vadodara-Ahmedabad Railway line of the Western Railway in the heart of the 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's education hub. Vidyanagar is also known for a student friendly environment and student diversity.
At the time of the enactment of the Sardar Patel University Act 1955[2] the area of the jurisdiction of the university (known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Vidyapeeth at that time) was limited to the 5 miles of Vallabh Vidyanagar. As of now till the latest amendment (Guj. 26 of 2015) the university has its jurisdiction over 2 districts.
SP University Admin Building
Arts
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Department of English
Department of Economics
Department of Gujarati
Department of Hindi
Department of History
Department of Library and Information Science
Department of Political Science
Department of Psychology
Department of Sanskrit
Department of Social Work (MSW)
Department of Sociology
Business Studies
Department of Business Studies
Education
Department of Education
M B Patel College of Education (B Ed) (Constituent College)
Engineering and Technology
Department of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences
Home Science
Department of Home Science
Law
Department of Law
Management
Department of Business Management
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Sciences
Department of Biosciences
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Department of Chemistry
Department of Electronics
Department of Materials Science
Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Department of Statistics
SP University Admin Building
Arts
Anand Arts College, Anand
Anand Institute of P.G. Studies in Arts, Anand
H.M. Patel Institute of English Training & Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar
Institute Of Language Studies & Applied Social Sciences(ILSASS), Vallabh Vidyanagar
Institute of Studies & Research in Renewal Energy, Vallabh Vidyanagar
Nalini Arvind & T.V. Patel Arts College, Vallabh Vidyanagar
N.S. Patel Arts College, Anand
Paionner Arts College, Anand
Shri Bhaikhabhai Patel Arts College, Anand
Shri Bhikhbhai Patel Institute of PG Studies in Research and Humanities, Anand
Shree J.M. Patel Arts College, Anand
Architecture
D C Patel School Of Architecture (APIED), Vallabh Vidyanagar
Shantaben Manubhai Patel Institute of Architecture & Interior Design, New Vallabh Vidyanagar
