About the University

The university was established in 1954, in the world famous temple town of Tirupati on a sprawling campus of 1000 acres with a panoramic and pleasant hill view. It was established with the effort of the great visionaries late Sri Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu, the then Chief Minister of A.P. and late Shri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, to cater to the educational needs and aspirations of the people of Rayalaseema area. With a great wisdom, the founders of this university have rightly coined the motto “Wisdom lies in proper perspective” for it. The university has grown excellently from strength to strength over the past sixty one years, as premier institute of higher learning under the able and committed leaderships of successive Vice Chancellors. The university has four constituent colleges. The 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 and 1500 non-teaching and student strength of 5000 including research scholars.

S.V.University Library

The University Library was started in the year 1955 with a small collection of 6700 books in a portion of the University College main building.  Later, it was shifted to the present building which was inaugurated in July 1964, by the Late Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan, the then President of India.  He described it as ‘Taj Mahal of the South’. The Library building is known for its aesthetic look, functional utility and excellent design with good lighting and ventilation.

The University Library is centrally located and easily accessible to all the departments on the campus, steadily grown over the years and today it has about 3,70,500 documents.  It is the central facility for four constituent colleges of S.V.University including University College of Engineering and has about 7000 members. The Library fulfills all the information needs of its members including students, research scholars, teaching faculty, and non-teaching staff.

SV University Library is a member of the INFLIBNET Programme of UGC.  In order to provide access to full-text e-journals and databases available under the UGC-INFONET Programme, the Library has established a Digital Library in the year 2005.  The Library is an active participating member in the UGC-SHODHGANGA Project. So far it has digitized about 1000 theses and sent to INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhi Nagar for uploading into SHODHGANGA Website.  The Digital Library contains the database of all digitalized theses. In addition to the INFLIBNET membership, SV University Library also became the member of INDEST Consortium and is providing access to all online resources available under the consortia membership.