Acharya Nagarjuna University is a university in the region of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the major universities in the country covering many colleges and institutes of districts in the region. It is located in Nagarjuna Nagar, on the Northern part of Guntur City, a major centre for learning in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The university is an outgrowth of a post-graduate centre of Andhra University, which was established in 1967 at Nallapadu area of Guntur and then relocated to Nambur/Kaza area on the east of the city. The centre gained affiliating university status in 1976 and opened with ten post-graduate courses. The university is named after Acharya Nagarjuna, the pro-founder of the Madhyamaka path of Mahayana Buddhism.
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