Vedanta University

About Vedanta University

Vedanta University is a proposed, private, multi-disciplinary, co-educational university to be started by Anil Agarwal of Vedanta Resources corporation near Puri-Konark highway, Orissa, India. According to the news reports and as of September 2010, the plan to start the the university, was a closed chapter. However, in late April 2015 a revival of the project was initiated; The ex-Chief Secretary of Odisha, Mr. Bijay Patnaik, was hired as the President of the Vedanta University Project to revive this project

The proposed Vedanta University will be a world class, multi-disciplinary university with students from across India and around the world. Vedanta University will span more than 6,000 acres on the Puri-Konark marine drive in Orissa and will be home to more than 100,000 talented students from around the world. With an estimated investment of more than 15,000 crores, supported by a thriving ecosystem of knowledge in a breathtaking physical environment, the University will transform Orissa into a primary centre for knowledge in India; the institution will join the ranks of the world’s greatest Universities such as Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford.