Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, accredited B++ by the NAAC in 2004 was established under the South Gujarat University, Act 1965 passed by the Gujarat State legislative Assembly and was incorporated as a University in 1967. The UGC recognition was obtained in 1968.

There are 77 grants - in - aid colleges, 91 self - Financed colleges/Institutions and 78 Post Graduate Teaching Centres in colleges affiliated to the University.  There are 16 Post Graduate Departments offering various Post Graduate teaching programmes, besides M.Phil and Ph.D. in various disciplines.  There are 17 Self - Financed Programmes on the campus.  The University offers 117 Graduate Programmes and 32 Post Graduate Programmes (Including Self - Financed Programmes).  The faculty comprises 86 Permanent Teacher.  The number of Non - Teaching Staff is 346. The Overall enrolment of the University has gone to over 1 Lac Students.  The campus of the University which is spread over and area of 210 acres is on the outskirts of Surat city on Udhna - Magdalla Road and has nearly 2,700 students studying in the various Post Graduates Departments.  The University has faculties of Science, Arts, Education, Management Studies, Commerce, Rural Studies, Engineering and Technologies, Medicine and Law.  Courses included under five of these Faculties are conducted on the campus.  The programmes offered by the Post Graduate Departments offer flexibility for enrolment with multi- Disciplinary Intake in business and industrial Management.  Rural studies, Public Administration, HRD and M.Sc.(I.T. & ICT) Programmes, and to innovative programmes of UGC.  

 

The University believes in harnessing all its resources evolving standards and adopts the best practice to promote excellence in teaching and research on the lines of the UNESCO declaration on the Higher Education and benchmark against the best University of the country.