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About the Yogi Vemana University

The erst while Sri Venkateshwara University Post Graduate Centre in YSR District, Kadapa was upgraded in the year 2006 and Yogi Vemana University was established by an Act of A.P state legislature. Named after the renowned philosopher and thinker and poet Yogi Vemana, the University imbibes the most cherished values of Teaching, research and service in its working and progress.Located on the Kadapa – Pulivendula Highway 15 kilometres from the Kadapa city in a campus of 652 acres the University hosts various courses in majesticwell furnished Sir C.V. Raman Science Block, New Arts Block accompanied with A.P. J Abdul Kalam Central Library and Administrative Buildings. The University offers Post Graduate and Ph.D programmes in provides courses in Arts, Commerce and Science streams.

Yogi Vemana University received UGC 2(f) and 12(B) statuses in 2007 and 2011, respectively. In a bid to subject the institute to objective evaluation SSR for NAAC was filed in May 2022 and the University accomplished NAAC ‘A’ grade with 3.13 CGPA in November 2022 in the 2nd Cycle. The University enrolled for the NIRF initiative of MHRD, Government of India and was accorded 92nd rank at National level and 3rd rank at the State level (NIRF-2016). Also ranked in 101-150 band during the year NIRF-2021 and 2022 and between 150-200 band in 2023. The University has at present 101 regular staff, 136 Academic Consultants on its rolls besides 307 non-teaching and 125 outsourcing staff. One of the unfailing strengths of the University is its faculty, relatively young with wide overseas exposure in research endeavours and rich experience in teaching. The faculty has rich research experience in India and abroad besides teaching. Teachers have been encouraged to enrich their pedagogical practices using technology. Presently about 2000+ students are pursuing postgraduate and research programmes.At present as many as 113 affiliated colleges offering undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses are affiliated to the University, which include P.G., U.G., Law, B.Ed., B.P.Ed. and D.P.Ed.


About Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE)

The Directorate of Distance Education was established in the year 2022 with the aim of imparting quality education to the education seekers whom are deprived of education due to personal constraints and for those who seek to upgrade their qualification and competence. The Directorate offers open distance learning (ODL) education courses in higher education through distance mode of education to the students of the State of Andhra Pradesh who are deprive of admission into the conventional modes. The Directorate of Distance Education of Yogi Vemana University offers innovative, job-oriented courses well designed for the learners of the distance mode by providing updated reading material and support through the identified distance learning centres.

The directorate is located in the Yogi Vemana University campus with a well-equipped Library, Audio-Video, computer Laboratory, well-furnished class rooms, conference halls with latest information and communication technology (ICT) facilities. The students getting admissions in the Open Distance learning mode are offered the same syllabi and are offered class room support through the same experienced faculty of the university as that of the regular students of Yogi Vemana University.

Our Vision

  1. The centre aims to create a knowledge -society by offering quality education to every learner.
  2. To provide sustainable, affordable and life – long learning by offering innovative and skill-based courses.
  3. To produce well informed citizenry by bridging the gap in Higher education and reaching where the traditional system is not reachable.

Our Mission

  1. To attain the status of a reputed institution of excellence in teaching and extension with a dynamic course curriculum that fits the future needs of the society.

To bear the fulcrum of the society development by developing skilled manpower resources for the state that can help in the academic and all-round development the state and the country.


Preamble for the start of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) programmes @ YVU

  • The Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa (A Grade NAAC recognized) Directorate of Distance Education is established with the objective of “reaching the unreached” by offering “quality education at the learner’s doorstep.”
  • The Directorate supports thousands of people who wish to continue higher education but are unable to do so due to budgetary constraints or who want to advance their skills and credentials to achieve their academic goals.
  • The Directorate is driven to address the challenges of equity across demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic barriers by connecting with numerous education seekers online (ICT programmes) and offering them top-notch educational resources.

University Establishment Act and Gazette – View


NAAC A Grade – View


2(f) 12(B) Status- View


Statutes of Yogi Vemana University Under Section 51 of A.P. Universities Act 4 of 1991View

Ordinances of Yogi Vemana University Under Section 53 of A.P. Universities Act 4 of 1991 – View