Kuvempu University is affiliating university in Karnataka established in 1987. It is a University with a distint academic profile, blending in itself commitment to rural ethos and modern spirit. It has 57 post-graduate departments of studies in the faculties of arts, commerce, science, education and law. The university has 97 affiliated colleges, four consitutent colleges and three autonomous colleges, three B.Ped Colleges, six law colleges and 30 B.Ed Collegews under its jurisdiction spread over 4 districts of Shimoga, Chitradurga, Chikmanglur and Davangere. It also has a Post-Graduate Centre at Davangere, which itself having completed 27 years of fruitful service.The academic life in the university is vibrant and exciting with seminars, symposia,special lectures and workshops throughout the year. Both the conventional and Non-conventional courses of study have updated syllabi responsive to needs of the contemporary society. The research orientation is innovative, original and directed to societal needs.
Kuvempu University is the pioneer to introduce Choice Based Credit System(CBCS) in Karnataka, where the choice refers to the flexibility offered to the students for selecting a suitable course or paper and the credit refers to time spent for the study. Thus the CBCS is an advanced mode of higher learning that facilitates a good deal of freedom in designing ones’s own curriculum in masters’ degree. Further, this is a learner and teacher orientd by eliciting active participation of teachers in planning and management of academic programmes, establishing close interaction between teacher and students that contribute towards quality of education.
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