Bhubaneswar-based Centurion University will start its operations from this academic year, according to university Vice-Chancellor G.S.N. Raju here on Wednesday.
Prof. Raju, former Vice- Chancellor of Andhra University, had taken charge as the VC of the Centurion University-Andhra Pradesh.
According to him, an MoU was signed with the State government in the recently held CII-Partnership Summit. “Initially, we will start our operations from a leased premise near Anandapuram in Visakhapatnam and in about two years time will move to our own near Gajapathinagaram in Vizianagaram district. The State government has allotted us 160 acres and we have procured another 40 acres. A full-fledged campus with residential facilities will be built,” he said.
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To begin with, the university will offer four B. Tech and M. Tech courses in
ECE, CSE, Mechanical and Civil.
“We will be offering skill-based education and ample focus will be paid to internship and lab sessions. To begin with, we will set-up a robotics lab, IoT and CNC labs,” said Prof. Raju.
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According to the VC, the intake will be 60 per batch and in the next couple of years “we will be starting all the branches in engineering and streams in pure sciences and humanities”.
Chancellor of the university Prasanna Pattanayak, Registrar of the university Pallavi and vice-president D.N. Rao, were present.