SRM University, Andhra Pradesh (SRM AP), also known as SRM University, Amaravati, is a private university located near Neerukonda village in Mangalagiri mandal of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, India, in the area of the planned capital city Amaravati. The university was established in 2017 by the SRM Trust through the Andhra Pradesh Private Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Act, 2016. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate courses and Ph.D programmes in engineering, liberal arts and basic sciences.
Academics
SRM University, Andhra Pradesh offers undergraduate, postgraduate courses and Ph.D programmes through its two schools, the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, launched in 2017, and the School of Liberal Arts & Basic Sciences, which was launched in 2018. In 2018, a three-year BBA Programme was started under the aegis of the School of Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences (SLABS) at SRM University-AP. In 2020, an independent school of Business was created as the School of Entrepreneurship and Management Studies (SEAMS) with a BBA (Honours) Programme, MBA Programme in Data Science, Banking and Finance and a PhD Programme. In 2021, SEAMS launched a new MBA Programme specialising in Marketing, Finance and Human Resource Management. SEAMS was rechristened as the Paari School of Business with a BBA (Honours) Programme, MBA Programme, and EMBA programme in 2023
Leadership
The university is led by the president P. Sathyanarayanan, which serves in this position since its establishment in 2017. The inaugural vice-chancellor (VC) of the university was Jamshed Bharucha who was appointed to this position in July 2018. Bharucha was replaced with Vajja Sambasiva Rao in 2020. In 2022, Manoj K. Arora took his place as VC.
Campus
The campus is designed by Perkins and Will, an American architectural firm, and PTK Architects, an architectural firm based in Chennai, India. It has hostel facilities for about 1500 students and faculty, in five apartments.