GITAM Institute of Management (GIM) started in 1988 as College of Management Studies offering Under Graduate and Post Graduate Programmes in Management of Andhra University. Soon after AICTE approval in 1994, a Post Graduate Programe in Human Resource Management was started in 1996. The erstwhile GITAM Institute of Foreign Trade was started in 1997 in academic collaboration with IIFT New Delhi offering Post Graduate Programme in International Business. NAAC accreditation with Grade A was.......

Karunya University was founded with the noble vision to raise professionals and leaders of high academic calibre and unblemished character, nurtured with a strong motivation and commitment to serve humanity. The Karunya Institute of Technology was started as a private self-financing engineering college on 4 October 1986. In 2004, the institute was awarded the Deemed to be University status in recognition of its academic excellence by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government.......

The University of Mumbai (known earlier as University of Bombay) is one of the oldest and premier Universities in India. It was established in 1857 consequent upon "Woods Education Dispatch", and it is one amongst the first three Universities in India.