page_title: Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University / Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial View of the main campus
context_page_description: Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, formerly Purvanchal University, is a public state university based in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 1987 as a residential-cum-affiliating university. It is named after Shri Vir Bahadur Singh, the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
  The university is engaged in research through MoU with foreign and local universities, organizations and institutions. Many of its departments are identified by UGC as Centres of Excellence.
  Started with 69 affiliated colleges, the university has widened its spectrum of activities with 800+ affiliated graduate and post-graduate colleges and students enrollment of nearly 800,000 Plus as on in 12 districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. The infrastructure development, achievement of academic excellence, quality assurance in the higher education and socio-economic development of this highly backward and rural region are the priority areas for the university.
context_section_description: The university is about 11 km from the city of Jaunpur on Jaunpur-Shahganj road which divides its 171.5 acres (0.694 km2) campus into two part, one is campus and another one is hostel, teacher's colony, guest house and vice chancellor residence.
caption: Aerial View of Main Campus
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