Vikram Simhapuri University, Nellore

Vikrama Simhapuri University (VSU) is a public state university located in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The university was established in 2008 with six courses. Now, the university is offering 17 Post Graduate courses in University College

Formaiton:
On April 12, 2010, the government of Andhra Pradesh passed a G.O. that all the colleges in Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore district which at present affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University are affiliated to VSU. With these orders SVU PG Centre in Kavali, NBKR Engineering College in Vidyanagar, 52 degree and PG colleges, 12 MBA/MCA colleges, V.R. Law college, 12 B.Ed colleges, two oriental colleges in SPSR Nellore District came under VSU. Later on, NBKR Engineering college shifted its affiliation to JNTU Anantapur.
Campus:

VSU doesn't have its own buildings. It is started with an administrative building at Dargamitta, Nellore. Regular classes are at V.R. High School Campus (Old Law College Campus), Nellore.

Campus construction is in process at Kakutur, Nellore in 87 acres (350,000 m2) provided by the government of Andhra Pradesh

Academics:
The University is primarily an under graduate and post-graduate university. VSU conducts its own entrance examinations VSURESET & VSUPGCET for all courses each year. The University offers variety of courses which include B.A, B.Com, B.Sc, B.B.A, B.B.O.L, L.L.B, B.Tech and M.Sc, M.A, M.F.A, M.Tech, M.B.A, M.C.A, M.Phil and Ph.D degrees.

Criticism:

From the inception of the university, there is a lot of criticism on the recruitment process of this university. Former Vice-Chancellor G.Rajarami Reddy mainly focused on recruitment than developing infrastructure results in not attaining University Grants Commission (India) 12 B Status till now. He recruited 19 Teaching Faculty members in the month of December 2013 where there are no tourism studies qualified fraternity in the department of tourism management and no biotechnology qualified fraternity in the department of biotechnology.He even malpracticed the roster points by showing integrated biotechnology as biotechnology in the recruitment notification. The 45 members Non-Teaching recruitment was criticized widely that the posts of Deputy Registrar, Assistant Registrar and Senior Assistants were given to those who didn't have essential qualifications as per UGC Norms.
 Also the recruitment was happened in the period of June 2014 where there is ban on recruitments and appointments in the state of Andhra Pradesh based on a government order. Without any parallel government order to the above government order, this fraudulent recruitment happened. The issue is under the view of honorable Lokayukta Andhra Pradesh for necessary inquiries and action.Also while inaugurating the new official web domain simhapuriuniv.ac.in of the university, the key people here grossly neglected safe guarding and renewing the old official web domain simhapuriuniv.org results in misuse of the old domain by some fake degree racketeers. This issue came to light on August 14, 2014.Fake degrees of this university were widely available in North India. The government of Chattisgarh state black listed the degrees of this university upon the orders of Chattisgarh Log Aayog and further the government permitted acceptance of this university degrees upon prior verification only