“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that an individual receives a quality education in the community. We are here to accomplish the aspiration of youth with imparting high quality education to our future generation.
VIDYAPEETH UNIVERSITY is the first private university in Sikkim It is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, research and developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. It is engaged in teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. Studying with us is a challenging yet rewarding experience .Our flexible approach offers you a range of study options, from studying full-time with local support to studying by distance learning, external courses and many more, so you can combine work with your studies. VU has mapped out an exciting future for its students with its Strategic Plan 1980 -2024
Our study method gives you an in-depth knowledge of your chosen subject. It also supports you in becoming an independent thinker, developing analytical skills, and helping to improve your organizational skills. Through our colleges, VU offers more than 22 degree programs initially and plan to offer more in the future. Learn more about each of our colleges’ outstanding programs and faculty.
The University offers Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) giving freedom to the students to choose his/her optional courses. CBCS is a cafeteria approach envisaged by University Grants Commission (UGC) to provide students and teachers horizontal and vertical mobility and to design his / her own programme of study with courses of his / her choice. CBCS provides students to enjoy academic mobility and transfer of credits across Schools / Faculties.CBCS provides students to enjoy academic mobility and transfer of credits across Schools / Faculties. Quality, Flexibility and Student’s success are the underlying, imperatives of the CBCS initiative.
VIDYAPEETH UNIVERSITY has been established by an Act of Central under self finance mode, which received the assent of His Excellency the Governor of Sikkim and published in the Sikkim gazette with vide. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has accorded the university as a state private university, in accordance with the provisions contained in the University Grant Commission Act, 1904 and empowered to award degrees in terms of section 2(f) of UGC Act, 1904 The Board of Governors is the Governing Body of the University and members of “Board of Governors” includes industrialists, academicians and representative of the State Government as per the VIDYAPEETH UNIVERSITY Act, 1904
VIDYAPEETH UNIVERSITY is committed to equal opportunities and seeks to maintain an environment which encourages all its members to contribute fully and on an equal basis to both the work and the life of the university.
"Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends."
- Amartya Sen
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi
