Type Public Phone 081922 08049 | Established 2008 Founded 2008, Davanagere | |
Chancellor Sri Vajubai Vala
Governor of Karnataka Vice-Chancellor Dr.B.B.Kaliwal, M.Sc, Ph.D., Post Doc (UK), FISBT Location Davangere, Karnataka, India Campus Shivagangotri, 73 acres Address State Highway 76, Tholahunase, Davangere, Karnataka 577002 Similar Kuvempu University, Bastar University, Central University of Karnat, Karnataka State Women's, Tumkur University | ||
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Davangere University (Kannada:ದಾವಣಗೆರೆ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾನಿಲಯ) is a public state university located in Davangere, Karnataka, India. The university was established in the year 2008 by the Government of Karnataka.
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Location
The university is located at Shivagangothri Campus at Tolahunase, 9 km from Davangere city. It houses the post-graduate departments of Commerce, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Economics, Food Technology, Accounting & Finance, M.Ed., and MSW. The Institute of Management studies is also housed at the P.G. Centre. The campus of 73 acres has attractive buildings as well as hostel and boarding facilities. Davangere University is one of the youngest affiliating type of universities in Karnataka. It has Davangere and Chitradurga districts under its jurisdiction and is headquartered at Davangere. The city is located on National Highway-4 about 265 km from Bangalore, the state capital of Karnataka. Davangere became a separate district from 15 August 1997; before then, it was part of Chitradurga District.
Overview
Davangere University was a post-graduate centre of the University of Mysore from 1979 to 1987 and functioned as a post-graduate centre of Kuvempu University from 1987 to 2009. Davangere University was established on 18 August 2009 out of Kuvempu University with a vision to meet the education aspirations of the people of the region. The main campus "Shivagangotri" is about 12 km from Davangere and 60 km from Chitadurga. Davangere University has revealed a distinctive academic profile, integrating excellence in higher education to fulfill the needs of the contemporary modern society and social ethnos of the region. It has two constituent colleges, one autonomous college and 110 affiliated colleges offering graduate and post-graduate course in disciplines catering to the education needs of nearly 400000 students.
The university has five faculties: Arts, Science and Technology, Commerce and Management, Engineering and Education. It has seven post-graduate departments of studies and research on the main campus offering eight post-graduate and one P.G. diploma courses. The constituent university college of (Fine) Visual Arts (established in the year 1964) has two departments and offers Bachelor of Visual Arts & Master of Visual Arts courses.