CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ANDHRA PRADESH

Central University of Andhra Pradesh (CU-AP) is a central university situated in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Its establishment stems from the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, which mandated the Government of India to set up Institutes of National Importance, including a central university, in the residual state of Andhra Pradesh. The union cabinet approved the university in May 2018, sanctioning ₹450 crore for the project, and the University of Hyderabad was chosen to mentor the new institution in June 2018. A bill was approved in July 2018, and the transit campus, located at the IT Business Incubation Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, was inaugurated in August 2018. About 491.3 acres of land were assigned for a permanent campus. The Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was passed in July 2019, and the Central Universities (Amendment) Act, 2019 was published in August 2019, officially establishing the university. The university is governed under the Central Universities Act, 2009, with the President of India as visitor, a chancellor as ceremonial head, and a vice-chancellor holding executive powers. It offers B.Tech., B.A. (Hons.), B.Sc. (Hons.), B.A. (vocational studies), and M.A. programmes using a semester-based Choice Based Credit System.