Overview
Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya (KSV) is a state private university located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Established under a state legislative act, the university brings together a group of long-running educational institutions managed by the Sarva Vidyalaya Kelavani Mandal, an educational trust based in the town of Kadi in Mehsana district. The university offers programmes across engineering, management, pharmacy, medicine, education, law, commerce, computer applications, and the social sciences.
Key facts
| Name | Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya |
|---|---|
| Type | State private university |
| Location | Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India |
| Sponsoring body | Sarva Vidyalaya Kelavani Mandal, Kadi |
| State | Gujarat |
| Country | India |
Background
The university traces its institutional roots to the Sarva Vidyalaya Kelavani Mandal, a trust founded in Kadi that has run schools and colleges in north Gujarat over several decades. As the trust expanded its higher education footprint with technical, management, and professional colleges, these institutions were brought together under a single university framework to allow integrated academic governance, curriculum design, and research activity.
Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya was established by an act of the Gujarat State Legislature, which placed it within the category of self-financed state private universities operating under the regulatory oversight of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and, for relevant programmes, statutory councils such as the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), the Bar Council of India (BCI), and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).
Campus and constituent institutions
The principal campus of the university is situated at Sector 15/23, Gandhinagar, with additional facilities and affiliated colleges of the parent trust located in Kadi. The university comprises a number of constituent colleges and faculties, including institutions devoted to:
- Engineering and technology (LDRP Institute of Technology and Research)
- Management and computer studies
- Pharmacy
- Medical sciences and physiotherapy
- Education and teacher training
- Law
- Commerce and arts
Academics
The university offers undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma, and doctoral programmes. Doctoral research is coordinated through a central research cell, and the institution conducts entrance examinations and admissions in accordance with state-level admission committees for professional courses, including the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) of Gujarat for engineering and pharmacy seats.
Significance
As one of the early privately governed universities in Gujarat, KSV represents the broader pattern in India of long-established educational trusts converting into multi-disciplinary universities. It is part of the cluster of higher-education institutions concentrated in the Gandhinagar–Ahmedabad region, which also hosts national institutes and several other state and private universities.
Related topics
- Gandhinagar
- Kadi
- Education in Gujarat
- List of universities in Gujarat
- University Grants Commission (India)
- Private universities in India
References
- Wikidata entry: Q14957008
- University Grants Commission, list of state private universities
- Government of Gujarat, Education Department records on private universities