Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College (VRSEC) in Vijayawada has been declared an institution Deemed to be University by the Union Ministry of Education under the provisions of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956.
At a press conference on March 14 (Thursday), the principal A.V. Ratna Prasad said the focus of the institution would be on providing multi-disciplinary and holistic education in the faculties of Engineering, Technology, Science, Social Science, Arts, Humanities, Sports and other disciplines besides transforming it into a research and teaching intensive university over a period of time and adopting provisions of the New Education Policy 2020 and providing high quality teaching and research, recognised nationally and internationally.
He said emphasis would also be on providing higher education facilitating excellence and innovation at under-graduate, post-graduate and research degree levels and engage in inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teaching conforming to the concept of a university.
