The Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University was established at Nanded by bifurcating the MarathwadaUniversity at Aurangabad on 17th September 1994, the day on which in 1948 erstwhile Hyderabad State was liberated from rule of the Nizam. Nanded is a district headquarter as well as a holy city situated on the banks of Godavari river in southeastern part of Maharashtara state. Nanded is directly approachable by train from Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) (650 km), Delhi (1700 km) and Bangalore (800 km). Nearest airport with regular flight services are located at Aurangabad (260 km) and Hyderabad (270 km) the famous tourist places of India.
The University has been named after Swami Ramanand Teerth the Doyen of the Hyderabad Liberation Struggle and also a renowned educationalist and social activist. The University is to cater for southern part of Marathwada Region of Maharashtra State, specifically to the districts of Nanded, Latur, Parbhani and Hingoli.
The University Establishment Committee had visualized a region specific University with non conventional courses with a School system for Campus teaching to initiate and promote interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. The university has redesigned its syllabi and courses in order to generate the human resource for the regional development. The courses are characterized by innovative ways in teaching, learning and evaluation with emphasis on the aspects of research, consultancy and extension services.
In the short time of operation the University has been granted recognition by the University Grants Commission (UGC), the apex educational body of Government of India, under 2(f) in March 1995 and under 12 (B) in May 1998, before completion of five years. It has been accredited by NAAC in 2001 with two stars status. At present University has 172 colleges affiliated to it.
These details are retrieved from www.srtmun.ac.in
Accommodation
Boys’ Hostel
S.R.T.M. University provides good hostel facility mostly for non – localite male students. Hostel has a capacity of 120 single seated rooms, which are well ventilated and furnished with fans, tables, chairs , cupboards and galleries. To make the stay comfortable, the hostel is well equipped with all basic facilities like water coolers / filters, solar heaters and T.V. set etc. The Boys’ hostel hall has a inverter, which has back up of three to four hours for two 40 W tube lights in case of electricity failure. The admission to the hostel is strictly given on merit basis to PG students of all schools of the campus on demand and supply basis. Prominent news papers like Times of India & Lokmat are being provided to the hostel daily. All hostelites are provided with original Godrej Locks for their allotted rooms. Separate full time sweepers are appointed to clean the hostel premises daily. Hostel is guarded by security guards round the clock. For visitors, separate register is being maintained. There is a hostel council to look after the different problems of the hostel. Boys’ hostel has a dining hall and the co-operative mess will be started very soon on no profit no loss basis. Besides campus, there is a Primary Health Centre of the Government. Health Centre of the University is ready and the medical facility would be made available as early as possible. Boys’ hostel is located near the sports ground & gymnasium of the university. Free internet connection to all students is made available in the hostel. Students’ profile is being maintained by the hostel office. Boys’ hostel has an independent warden mostly from the faculty . For poor and deserving students, there is ‘Earn and Learn Scheme’ in the hostel.
Girls\\\' Hostel
Girl’s hostel is equipped with 124 single seated well ventilated rooms. The rooms are allotted to the students on the basis of school wise quota system. Hostel is equipped with distributed solar hot water system beside the basic amenities like fans, water cooler/filters, etc. The catering facility to the student (students mess) is being run on no profit- no loss co-operative basis. Govt. medical facility is available to the students which is situated at the distance of 250 meters from hostel. Health centre of the University is under construction which is situated adjacent to the girls hostel.Security is provided to the girls hostel round the clock, where in there is exchange of duty guards every eight hours.Separate staff is appointed for cleaning and maintenance of girl’s hostel.There is provision for girls in the hostel to opt for the \\\"Earn and Learn\\\" scheme.Internet facility with 100 mbps wireless line is available in the hostel free of cost for all the students.
