Motto | To expand the knowledge. |
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Type | Public |
Established | 2007 |
Affiliation | UGC |
Chancellor | O. P. Kohli |
Vice-Chancellor | Prof. (Dr.) Navin Sheth, Vice-Chancellor, GTU |
Undergraduates | Yes |
Postgraduates | Yes |
Yes | |
Location | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
Campus | Urban |
Nickname | GTU |
Website | www.gtu.ac.in |
Gujarat Technological University(International Innovative University), commonly referred as GTU, is a statewide institution affiliating many engineering, pharmacy, and management colleges and varsities across the western Indian Districts of Gujarat.
The university is headed by the state government and came into existence on 16 May 2007 .
Earlier, Gujarat University was the prime university of Gujarat state heading all colleges including technical colleges. To ensure more efficient, and systematic imparting of technical education, the state government formulated GTU. GTU declares results all around from February to April for winter exams and all around from June to August of summer exams.
The complete list of academic programmes can be found http://www.gtu.ac.in/Academic.asp
GTU affiliates the colleges for the Diploma, Degree and Master of engineering courses comprising to Ph.D [Doctoral Programs] and Pharmacy courses for Bachelors and Masters, Management courses and MCA. along with good GTU Results.
List of Engineering Colleges of (BE) affiliated to GTU.
Some of the Engineering colleges are:
GTU established 'GTU Innovation Council' at ACPC Building, LD Campus in the year 2013. GTU Innovation Council, also known as GIC, is headed by Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta. The aim of GTU Innovation council is to facilitate student startups by providing necessary facilities, organizing workshops, helping student to find relevant mentors and other activities weekly. GIC also conducts workshops on Training the professors, Flash Ventures, Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Design Thinking and Ideation workshops. GIC established a separate wing of IP Clinic, which helps students to easily patent their innovative ideas and projects. GIC also looks after GTU's UDP program, which authenticates Final year student projects, on quality and genuineness perspectives.
GTU Innovation Council took the momentum when they launched Crowdfunding Initiator program in association with Start51, an indigenous crowd-funding platform in India. Crowdfunding Initiator (CFI) is aimed to help student startups with necessary guidance and funding. About 70 student startups from around Gujarat enrolled, out of which only few projects where selected for the one-month-long bootcamp. This bootcamp which was organized from 16 June 2014 to 12 July 2014, was divided into four part: Ideation, Incentive Model, Pitch Presentation and Funding. By the end of bootcamp, Crowdfunding Initiator successfully took 8 projects live on a dedicated crowdfunding portal for funding.