Gayatri Vidya Parishad Degree College

Gayatri Vidya Parishad (GVP), a pioneering Educational society in the city of destiny and harmony, Visakhapatnam, was established and registered on 28th September 1988 with a view to serving the cause of higher education by an ardent group of erudite academicians and philanthropic persons. Prof. Bhavaraju Sarveswara Rao, former Professor of Economics, Andhra University who had the privilege of having Diplomatic career as Economic Advisor to Govt. of East Nigeria, and also served as Vice-chancellor of Acharya Nagarjuna University was the founder President. Another stalwart in the field of academics, Dr. B. Swamy former member of All India Medical Council and former Vice?Chancellor, Acharya Nagarjuna University succeeded Professor Sarveswara Rao. Yet another distinguished personality, former VUDA chairman, former Mayor GVMC and former two-time Chairman, Bar Council of India, Sri D.V. Subba Rao has been the president of GVP from 2010 to 2014. He was succeeded by Sri. A.S.N. Prasad, a renowned philanthropist. With the guiding spirit of these and other learned luminaries, the GVP established a Degree College with PG Courses, a junior College, a College of Engineering (A), a College of Engineering for Women and centers such as Centre for Policy Studies, GVP Centre for the Study of Human and Spiritual values, Centre for the Study of Gandhian Philosophy and Human Development, Indo-German Institute of Advanced Technology and Kasturba Centre for Studies on Women Empowerment. The establishment of a Technical Campus in 2011 with the existing School of Management Studies and the School of Computer Applications and the addition of Engineering branches in the form of School of Engineering is yet another feather in the cap of Gayatri Vidya Parishad. The Technical Campus is a new concept of AICTE, and Gayatri Vidya Parishad College for Degree and PG Courses is one of the first few colleges to adopt this new concept. The campus consists of v School of Engineering; started in 2011. v School of Management Studies ? MBA; started in 1996. v School of Computer Applications ? MCA; started in 1993.