ANDHRA KESARI UNIVERSITY

Andhra Kesari University is a public university located in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, established on 11 January 2022. It is named after Tanguturi Prakasam, a political leader, social reformer, and anti-colonial nationalist who served as chief minister of Madras Presidency and later as the first chief minister of erstwhile Andhra State, and who was known as "Andhra Kesari." The university originated from the Post-Graduate centre of Acharya Nagarjuna University, established on 16 November 1993 to provide better education to poor and backward communities around Prakasam district. On 24 November 2021, the Government of Andhra Pradesh introduced a bill to upgrade this centre into an autonomous university, which was officially established on 11 January 2022 through the A.P Universities (Amendment) Act, 2021. The present Post-Graduate campus covers 3.16 acres, with an additional 109.80 acres at Pernamitta, Ongole, where the multidisciplinary university is proposed to be relocated with a focus on Teacher Education. The university has 8 departments offering 10 postgraduate programs, including Commerce & Business Administration, Economics, History, Mathematics, Statistics, Social Work, Education, and Physical Education & Sports Sciences.