Sri Venkateswara University places emphasis on teaching, research and extension activities in different subjects.

Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati was established in 1954, in the world famous temple town of Tirupati on the sprawling campus of 1000 acres with a panoramic and pleasant hill view. This University stands as a testimony to the wisdom and foresight of the great visionaries Late Sri Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Late Sri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, to cater to the educational needs and aspirations of the people of the Rayalaseema area. With a great wisdom, the founder of this University has rightly coined the motto “Wisdom lies in proper perspective” for it. The University has grown excellently from strength to strength over the past fifty-two years, as a premier institute of higher learning under the able and committed leaderships of successive Vice-Chancellors starting from Prof. S. Govindarajulu to the present Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. S. Jayarama Reddy. It has gone through greater strides in the transformation of the University with acquiring necessary and modern sophisticated instrumentation to catch up with the world competition in academic and research programmes.

Right from its inception, Sri Venkateswara University has been laying more emphasis on teaching, research and extension activities in different subjects. The range of subject departments, courses and research programmes undertaken and promoted during the last fifty-two years reflect the Sri Venkateswara University’s commitment in promoting socially relevant and inter-disciplinary programmes. The University was started with six departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Economics and Philosophy. The University has eight constituent colleges concerning various conventional and advanced subjects, in order to provide good academic and smooth administrative service to one and all. Besides these colleges, it has a PG centre at Kavali.

Sri Venkateswara University has 58 departments, wherein 71 different PG courses and several Diploma and Certificate courses are being run with a total academic faculty strength of 400 whereof 1500 non-teaching and a student body of 5000, including research scholars. Several novel and newly emerging PG courses have also been introduced during this academic year. The University has been moving forwards in achieving academic excellence with a strong commitment and dedicated approach, by clearly setting up of a vision of its own. The initiatives taken by the Vice-Chancellor have already started yielding excellent results in terms of research funding, extension activities and thus keeping the University on the path of excellence.

Sri Venkateswara University plans to play an effective role in supporting and facilitating the organizing process and providing scientific and technical guidance and advice for comprehensive societal development. It intends to support this effort in many ways: by providing leadership and vision and technical assistance in organizational development; by offering meeting space; by providing technical and knowledge based consultation service; by identifying resource persons; by involving students in community development programmes.

The University College provides facilities for a wide range of sports and games. It has a modern gymnasium which is equipped with the latest gymnastic and fitness gadgets like the multigym. The Gym provides facilities for indoor games like shuttle badminton, table-tennis, chess, carrom, besides Weightlifting and malkhamb. The renovated University stadium provides facilities for cricket, foot ball, Hockey and athletics. There are also courts for ball badminton, basket ball, volley ball, tennis, etc.