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Kakatiya University
Motto	Marching Towards Academic Excellence
Established	1976
Type	Public
Vice-Chancellor	Prof. N. Lingamurthy
Location	Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India
Campus	Rural
Affiliations	UGC
Website	www.kakatiya.ac.in

Kakatiya University is a public university located in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the largest recipients of central government educational funds, evidenced by the recent external campus facelift and vast expansion and acquisition of the latest IT equipment and related peripherals. Kakatiya University is located in the historical town, Warangal, erstwhile seat of the Kakatiya rulers and an important town in north Telangana region.The rapid growth of this university is mainly due to strong foundation and vision of Prof. K. Venkata Ramiah, first Vice Chancellor of this university.The university is offering about 120 programs at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the faculties of arts, science, commerce and business management, social sciences, education, engineering and pharmaceutical sciences with 340 constituent and affiliated colleges spread over four districts of Andhra Pradesh. The faculties of all the departments, with 248 teaching staff and 622 non-teaching staff.

Contents 1 Academics 2 Staff 3 Vice Chancellors 4 External links

[edit] Academics

The university has a network of eleven constituent colleges with 24 departments. During 2004-2005, the total enrollment of students for under-graduate programmes was around 90,000, while it was 6,500 for the post-graduate courses. About 175 research scholars are registered for Ph.D. programmes in different faculties. The Kakatiya University is offering programmes in engineering, pharmacy, law, M.C.A., M.B.A., education, science, arts, commerce. Oriental courses in university, constituent and affiliated colleges in addition to the large number of programmes(around 60) under distance mode through SDLCE. First time in Andhra Pradesh, postgraduate courses in science for inservice teachers and government employees, M.L.I.Sc and MCJ, diploma in mimicry, certificate course in communication skills in English, M.Sc. (Environmental Science) and M.Sc.(Psychology) have been introduced recently. The university also promotes individual and collective research by the faculty and the scholars.

[edit] Staff

Faculty of Arts

• Department of English
• Department of Hindi
• Department of Sanskrit
• Department of Telugu
• Department of Urdu

Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

• Department of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty of Education

• Department of Education

Faculty of Engineering

• Department Civil Engineering
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Department of Mining Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Law

• Department of Law

Faculty of Pharmacy

• Department of Pharmacy

Faculty of Science

• Department of Biochemistry
• Department of Biotechnology
• Department of Botany
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Geology
• Department of Informatics
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Micro Biology
• Department of Physics
• Department of Zoology
• Department of Examinations

Faculty of Social Sciences

• Department of Economics
• Department of History
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Public Administration
• Department of Sociology

[edit] Vice Chancellors

SNo.	Name of VC	TENURE
1	Prof. K. Venkata Ramiah	20th Aug 1976 19th Aug 1979
2	Prof.Jafar Nizam	20th Aug 1979 19th Aug 1982
3	Prof.T.Vasudev	20th Aug 1982 18th Aug 1988
4	Prof.Jafar Nizam	26th Oct 1988 25th Oct 1991
5	Dr.K.Jaya Shankar	11th Dec 1991 09th Dec 1995
6	Prof.Y.Vaikuntham	21st Jan 1995 19th Jan 1998
7	Prof.Vidyavati	6 May 1998 5 May 2001
8	Prof.Chandrakant Kokate	10th Jan 2001 27th Sep 2004
9	Prof.Gopala Reddy	11th Oct 2004 10th Oct 2007
10	Prof. N Linga Murthy	12th Nov 2007 till

[edit] External links

• Kakatiya University Official Website
• Warangal City Info
• KU info

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