PARUL UNIVERSITY

Parul University is a private university located in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Its origins date to 1993 with the founding of the Ahmedabad Homeopathic College, and it later expanded to cities such as Rajkot before establishing its main campus in Vadodara in 2003. It was incorporated as Parul University in 2015 under the Gujarat Private University Act 2009, gaining university status from the UGC. The university is governed by the Parul Arogya Seva Mandal Trust (PASM), founded in 1989, with Devanshu Patel serving as managing trustee and president. The 117-acre campus hosts over 50,000 students, including 2,000 international students from 56 nationalities. In 2009, it established Parul Sevashram Hospital, a NABH-accredited teaching hospital. In 2023, it became the youngest university in India to receive NAAC Grade A++ accreditation and was ranked among the top 50 universities in NIRF Innovation Rankings. The university comprises 32 institutes offering over 450 UG, PG, diploma, and PhD programmes across fields such as engineering, medicine, law, pharmacy, and management, and also launched Parul University Online in 2023 for distance learning programs.