Swami Vivekananda University

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Swami Vivekananda University (SVU) aims to actualize Swami Vivekananda lsquos educational vision of life building, and character-making education by combining the best elements of the East and the West. He envisioned an educational system wherein the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of our country with its hoary tradition of values like ‘sacredness of knowledge‘ would be blended with modern science, and predominantly western values like scientific temper, rationality of outlook, fearless and objective investigation into the nature of the physical world, technological skill, work efficiency, team work, etc. Swami Vivekananda‘s emphasis on man-making and character-building education is always being kept in view in all the programs and courses of study in the University bearing his hallowed name.
In the direction of thought of the honorable Chairman&rsquo;s dream &ndash; Excellence -Innovation-Entrepreneurship  &ndash;the University has taken several new educational initiatives in the recent past. The prime focus continues to drive us towards achieving increased standard of education and wider research outreach program. It is imperative, therefore, to be both creative &amp; innovative in the approach to lead the University towards a <strong>University of Excellence

The University is established through the Act no. XV of 2019 of the State Legislature of West Bengal in the year 2019 w.e.f 5th December 2019 and subsequently enlisted by the University Grant Commission in the year 2020 as a State Private University. The University from inception keeping a self-compliance of quality standard so as to comply accreditations immediately after becoming eligible on completion of graduation of batches. This is in place through its own Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC).

Located in its sprawling 12 acres lush &lsquo;Green Campus&rsquo; at the Township of Barrackpore with a smooth tripartite connectivity of rail-road-air, within 15 kilometers from Airport, little distance from the junction point Wireless more of Barrackpore-Barasat and Kalyani Expressway, in a close vicinity from Barrackpore railway station, the University already attains a strength of over 2000 + students pursuing various graduate and post graduate programs including around 150 research scholars only in its second session. The Campus has an ideal educational ambience with Classrooms, Laboratories, Auditorium, Smart Classrooms, Seminar Halls, Conference Halls, Computer Centre, Central Library, Gymnasium, Store and Canteen with campus WI Fi connectivity. Some of the highlights are Integrated hi-tech eco-friendly campus, highly equipped technical and language laboratories, well-furnished library with of more than 10,000 books, 5000 titles, and 100 national and international Journals, smart Classrooms in all the disciplines, Wi-Fi enabled smart campus, Sports, Swimming pool, Gymnasium, canteen &amp; cafeteria facilities, Multipurpose Hall, Medical Harbour, Banking Services, Campus Vigilance and Security System, Industry Relevant Curriculum.

<p align="justify">Standing on its own feet already, SVU is moving ahead by allying, hand holding and hand‐shaking with lead Universities and Institution of the Nation and the State. The Institution is a Learning‐centric environment with Authority always having a careful concern towards pedagogical aspects of the Learning‐Teaching and making the faculty members up‐to‐date with high‐end standard. With multiple engineering /technology as well as medical -allied health programs, the University is equally concerned for close networking and tie‐ups with high end, heavy and health Industry. Regular Industrial events in the forms of seminars and webinars, in spite of challenging introductory phase during pandemic, are regular practice. On the other hand, the students get opportunity to tune themselves by the Institutional Skill Development Programs. The Industry Institute Partnership Cell, Institutional Placement Cell and Finishing School have pro‐active views regarding employability, technical, communication, transferable and soft skill of the students. The programs like advanced (GATE coaching) for the advanced students, remedial teaching for weak students are in place. Special emphasis was given to the communication ability enhancement of the students including learning one foreign language (French / German).
<p align="justify">The members of the University have enriched their experience and knowledge base through sharing and exchanging with all possible stake holders viz. students, faculty, guardian, alumni, authority, employer and in extent with experts and regulatory bodies. This has facilitated effort to improve institutional governance, networking and services to community and economy. The planning and implementation, monitoring and evaluations of its programs with self -appraisal, peer appraisal and community appraisal are consistently practiced so as to identify the educational policies with dynamisms.</p>
<p align="justify">The Research and Development is the emerging aspect with highly qualified and educated faculty community with regular research accomplishments including young dynamic members receiving their Ph.D. award during their stay in the University largely due to nurturing vision of the Management and Authority. Some more faculty members are on road to qualify awards who already submitted their thesis. Institution has a watchful observation on eligibility and desirability criterion by providing all kind of support to encourage the rest through enrollment of in -house/ relevant PhD programs. Faculty and Staff Development has been given highest priority by means of hosting and arranging R&amp;D events like National and International Conference / Workshop / Symposium / Seminar as a regular practice. The University has been chosen as entrance test hub and a placement hub for conduction of various pool events right from national-state level entrances to placements