page_title: Amaravati
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Amaravati / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Acharya Nagarjuna University
context_page_description: Amaravati is the capital and the de facto seat of government of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The city is located on the banks of river Krishna in Guntur District and the primary city of the state's Capital Region. Built on allotted space on the southern banks of Krishna River in Guntur district selected close to the geographical center of the state.
  Amaravati was founded by former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in 2014 as the Greenfield administrative capital city of the Andhra Pradesh state, and its foundation stone was laid at Uddandarayunipalem by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on 22 October 2015.
  The office of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has operated from Velagapudi since April 2016. The Andhra Pradesh Legislature remained in Hyderabad until March 2017, when it relocated to newly constructed interim legislative buildings in Velagapudi.
context_section_description: Colleges and universities
  There are public funded universities within the city limits:
  Acharya Nagarjuna University
  Guntur Medical College
  Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University
  Krishna University
  Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences
  National Institute of Design
  Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Nuzvid
  All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalagiri
  Private and autonomous colleges in the city include:
  KL University
  Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology & Research
  Andhra Loyola College
  SRM University, Andhra Pradesh
  Vellore Institute of Technology
  Siddhartha Medical College
  Gudlavalleru Engineering College
  NRI Academy of Medical Sciences
  Andhra Christian College
  Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology
  Katuri Medical College
  Private institutes like Amrita University, Amity University and the Indo-UK Institute of Health (IUIH) in collaboration with the King's College London, are among others to set up campus in Amaravati. In 2018 the city's first management institute, Xavier School of Management (XLRI), was under construction near Ainavolu.
caption: Acharya Nagarjuna University
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