Chennai: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Union minister for Urban development M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the SRM University, Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati on Saturday.
While inaugurating the campus, N. Chandrababu Naidu said, “The SRM University will be a top ranked world class university with multi stream research in various fields including engineering and medicine.”
SRM University AP has forged collaborations with the world’s best universities, MIT and UC Berkeley College of Engineering, the US for launching new programmes with design, innovation and entrepreneurship.
“We will emphasise application oriented learning via projects and lab courses rather than monologues that are the typical feature of our classrooms,” said P. Sathyanarayanan, president of SRM University AP, Amaravati.
Over 90 per cent of faculty members in this university are having international academic exposure and all faculty members are having PhDs from foreign universities, IITs and IISc.
“Every year 20 undergraduate students will be given an opportunity to go to UC Berkeley for a semester to study engineering. We aim to bring a confluence of international ideas, technological innovation and social impact,” said Sandip Tiwary, Cornell University, US and newly appointed V-C of SRM University, AP
BTech programmes in CSE, ECE, EEE and ME are being offered for the academic year 2017-18.
To attract meritorious student 50 per cent tuition waiver is being awarded to students getting 90 per cent and above in PCM subjects.
