Adikavi Nannaya University Rajahmundry

Founded in 2006, Adikavi Nannaya University is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the the rural setting of the medium-sized city of Rajahmundry (population range of 500,000-1,000,000 inhabitants), Andhra Pradesh. Officially accredited/recognized by the University Grants Commission, India, Adikavi Nannaya University (ANU) is a coeducational higher education institution. Adikavi Nannaya University (ANU) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees in several areas of study. ANU also provides several academic and non-academic facilities and services to students including a library, as well as administrative services

Adikavi Nannaya University (Telugu: ఆదికవి నన్నయ విశ్వవిద్యాలయము; IAST: Ādikavi Nannaya Viśvavidyālayamu) is a state university located in Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh, India.^[1][2]Adikavi Nannaya University was established in March 2006 through the Government of Andhra Pradesh Act No. 28 of 2006. It is named after Nannayya, the first attested author of a text composed in the Telugu language. The university attends to the educational needs of both Godavari districts. Currently, all seventy-four post-graduate institutes as well as the 350 degree colleges located within the aforementioned districts maintain their government-mandated university affiliation with Adikavi Nannaya University. These colleges were previously affiliated with Andhra University.

The university initiated a program in Geo-Informatics and Petroleum Exploration, the first of its kind in Andhra Pradesh and one of the few in the country. In the second phase, keeping in view of the government policy of encouraging five-year integrated courses, the university designed and offered a new course in Mathematics and Computing, with the objective of providing trained programmes to the I.T. industry.