BENGALURU NORTH UNIVERSITY

Bengaluru North University (BNU) is a collegiate public state university situated in Tamaka, near NH 75 in Kolar, Karnataka, India. It was created in 2017 under the Karnataka State Universities (Amendment) Act, 2015, which trifurcated the former Bangalore University into Bangalore University, Bengaluru City University, and Bengaluru North University. Venugopal K R, a UVCE alumnus and principal, served as the Special Officer overseeing this restructuring and submitted his report in March 2015. The bill for the split was passed in July 2015, and BNU was formally inaugurated on 21 September 2017, with T. D. Kemparaju appointed as its first Vice-Chancellor; Niranjan Vanalli succeeded him in November 2021. The university currently operates from temporary offices at the Karnataka State Open University campus in Tamaka, with a permanent campus planned for Amaravathi village in Chickballapur district. BNU has 289 affiliated colleges, distributed according to Karnataka Legislative Assembly constituencies across Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru Urban, Chikkaballapur, and Kolar districts. The Vogue Institute of Art & Design, a design school established in 1996 and run by the Manduda Educational Trust, is affiliated with BNU and also recognized by the University of Mysore and the University of Sunderland, UK.