Andhra University College of Arts and Commerce is one of the constituent colleges of Andhra University established in 1931.
The Colleges of Arts and Commerce was started as part of combined Colleges of Arts, Science and Technology in the year 1931. It was separated in 1966 with Prof. B. Sarveswara Rao as its first Principal.
The College has 28 departments organizing 50 courses covering disciplines like Commerce and Management Studies, Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Arts, Languages and Education etc.,
The College has a total strength of 1894 full-time students and 200 Part-Time Students, 412 research scholars, 237 teachers and 140 administrative and supporting staff. It is the biggest constituent college of the University with a teacher student ratio of over 1:9.
Schools and departments
Department of Adult and Continuing Education
Department of Anthropology
Department of Commerce and Management Studies
Department of Cooperation and Applied Economics
Department of Economics
Department of Education
Department of English
Department of Fine Arts
Department of Foreign Languages (French,Japanese,German,Soft Skills)
Department of Hindi
Department of History and Archaeology
Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Department of Library and Information Science
Department of Linguistics
Department of Music
Department of Philosophy
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Department of Psychology and Parapsychology
Department of Russian
Department of Sanskrit
Department of Social Work
Department of Sociology
Department of Special Education
Department of Telugu : This was one of the two departments started in 1931, when the University College of Arts began to function. It was first headed by Pingali Lakshmikantam, succeeded by G. J. Somayaji. After them K. V. R. Narasimham, T. Donappa and S. V. Joga Rao occupied the position subsequently. Preparation of Telugu Etymological Dictionary was taken up by the department.
Department of Theater Arts
Department of Urdu
Prof. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Professor of English.
Prof. K. Satchidananda Murty, has been honored with Padma Bhushan in 1984 and Padma Vibhushan in 2001 by Government of India.
Prof. K. V. Ramana,
Prof. Y. C. Simhadri,
Prof. Koneru Ramakrishna Rao, is a philosopher, psychologist, parapsychologist, educationist, teacher, researcher and administrator. He was chief librarian at Andhra University (1960–61). He established the Department of Parapsychology. He became the director of the Institute for Parapsychology. He was the Vice-chancellor of Andhra University.
Prof. B. Sarveswara Rao,
Prof. R. V. R. Chandra Sekhara Rao,
Dr. M. Gopalakrishna Reddy,
Prof. C. V. Raghavulu, assumed the Vice-Chancellorship of various Universities.
Dr. Y. Lakshmi Prasad has been honored with Padmasri by the Government of India.
