Adikavi Nannaya University
A state university in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India, established in 2006, serving the combined Godavari districts and the affiliating university of Government College, Rajahmundry.
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- Established
- 2006
- Location
- Rajahmundry (Rajamahendravaram), East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh
- Country
- India
- Type
- State university
- Location
- Rajahmundry (Rajamahendravaram), East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh
- Vice-Chancellor
- Prof. Sathupati Prasanna Sree (appointed February 2025)
- Campuses
- Rajamahendravaram, Kakinada and Tadepalligudem, plus affiliated colleges across the combined Godavari districts
Overview
Adikavi Nannaya University is a state university headquartered in Rajahmundry (Rajamahendravaram), in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The University Grants Commission’s own consolidated list of universities records it as a state university established in 2006 (University Grants Commission). Its academic reach extends beyond its headquarters to campuses at Kakinada and Tadepalligudem, with affiliated colleges spread across the combined Godavari districts (The Hans India).
Leadership
In February 2025, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer, issued a notification naming Prof. Sathupati Prasanna Sree — until then a professor of English at Andhra University — as the university’s vice-chancellor (Deccan Chronicle). The same notification named vice-chancellors for eight other Andhra Pradesh state universities. In November 2025, Prasanna Sree received the Ramoji Excellence Award 2025 in the art-and-culture category, presented by the Vice-President of India, CP Radhakrishnan, in recognition of her work developing scripts for endangered tribal languages (The Hans India).
Recognition and infrastructure
In January 2026, the university received a five-star quality rating certificate from HIM International Certification, presented by Andhra Pradesh IT and Human Resources Development Minister Nara Lokesh at a vice-chancellors’ conference in Vijayawada. The Hans India described it as the first time any university in the state had received the honour (The Hans India).
The previous month, Minister Lokesh had inaugurated three new academic blocks — named Manjeera, Gautami and Indravati — built at a combined cost of about ₹34 crore at the university’s Arts College campus in Rajamahendravaram. During the same visit, he also toured the neighbouring Government College, Rajahmundry, described in the report as a 173-year-old institution (The Hans India).
Academic administration
In July 2026, the university launched an online moderation system for assessing B.Ed (teacher-education) projects, records and academic activities, incorporating GPS and facial-recognition technology. The Hans India reported it as the first system of its kind introduced by a university in the Telugu-speaking states (The Hans India).
In February 2026, the university invited applications for its 16th, 17th and 18th convocations, to be held together and covering postgraduate, undergraduate and PhD degrees from the 2022–23 through 2024–25 academic years, open to students from its Rajamahendravaram, Kakinada and Tadepalligudem campuses and its affiliated colleges in the combined Godavari districts (The Hans India).
What this profile does not claim
This profile does not assert the specific founding statute number or the naming rationale (after the Telugu poet Nannayya) reported only on the university’s English Wikipedia article, since no independent, fetchable source confirming either detail was found; it states only the year of establishment, independently confirmed by the UGC’s own list. It also does not restate a Hans India report’s description of the university as the state’s largest, with seven university college campuses and about 320 affiliated colleges, since that specific figure rests on a single source and was not independently corroborated. No NAAC accreditation grade is stated, because no independent source reporting one was found.
What we could not verify
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- Wikipedia states the university was established by "Andhra Pradesh Act No. 28 of 2006" and is named after Nannayya, the earliest attested Telugu-language author. No independent, fetchable source confirming either the specific act number or the naming rationale was found, so this profile states only the year of establishment (2006) as independently confirmed by the UGC's own list, and does not assert the act number or naming explanation as verified fact.
- A Hans India report describes the university as "the largest university in the state" with seven university college campuses and roughly 320 affiliated colleges. This figure rests on that single tier2 report; no second independent source corroborating the specific count was found, so it is not restated here as an established figure.
Sources
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The University Grants Commission's own consolidated list of universities was fetched and read in full and independently confirms the university's status as a state university in Andhra Pradesh established in 2006. Deccan Chronicle, a national Indian newspaper, was fetched and read in full and independently confirms the February 2025 vice-chancellor appointment. Several Hans India reports — an established regional English-language newspaper covering Andhra Pradesh — were each fetched and read in full and independently confirm the university's 2026 quality-rating certificate, a December 2025 campus visit by a state minister, convocation scheduling, and the vice-chancellor's own award. In an earlier research pass, the university's English Wikipedia article was fetched only as a lead index (never cited) and pointed to a specific founding statute number and a claim that the university is named after the Telugu poet Nannayya; neither of those specific claims was independently corroborated by a fetchable non-Wikipedia source, so neither is asserted as fact here (see openItems).
- Consolidated list of All Universities (as on 25 January 2023) Supports: Independent confirmation of the university's status as a state university in Andhra Pradesh, established in 2006, headquartered at Jayakrishnapuram, Rajahmundry, East Godavari district.
- New VCs Named for 9 AP Universities Supports: Confirmation that Prof Prasanna Sree, previously a professor of English at Andhra University, was named vice-chancellor of Adikavi Nannaya University by Governor Justice S. Abdul Nazeer's notification.
- AKNU bags prestigious 5-star quality rating Supports: The university's five-star quality rating certificate from HIM International Certification, described as the first such honour for any university in the state, presented by state minister Nara Lokesh.
- Lokesh inaugurates new buildings at Arts College, AKNU Supports: The December 2025 inauguration of three new academic blocks at the university's Arts College campus, and the same visit's stop at the neighbouring Government College, Rajahmundry.
- Applications invited for AKNU convocation Supports: Confirmation of the university's campuses at Rajamahendravaram, Kakinada and Tadepalligudem and its affiliated colleges across the combined Godavari districts, and the scheduling of its 16th–18th convocations.
- Online moderation system launched at AKNU Supports: The July 2026 launch of an online moderation system for B.Ed programme assessment, described as the first such system among Telugu States universities.
- AKNU V-C Prasanna receives Ramoji Excellence Award Supports: The Vice-Chancellor's Ramoji Excellence Award 2025 in the art-and-culture category, presented by the Vice-President of India, for developing scripts for endangered tribal languages.
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