Welcome to Acharya Nagarjuna Open University

          The University, initially known as Acharya Nagarjuna Open University, was set up on 25th October 1996 through an Act of the A.P. State Legislature. The establishment of this University, the first of its kind in India, heralded an era of affirmative action on the part of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) awarded grade to Acharya Nagarjuna Open University.
          It is named after Acharya Nagarjuna one of the most brilliant preceptors and philosophers, whose depth of thought, clarity of perception and spiritual insight were such that even after centuries, he is a source of inspiration to a vast number of people in many countries. The University is fortunate to be situated on the very soil where he was born and lived, a soil made more sacred by the aspiration for light and a state of whole someness by generations of students.

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY TO :

• Provide educational opportunities to those students who could not take advantage of conventional institutions of higher learning.
• Provide equal educational opportunities for higher education through distance mode for a large segment of the population, including those in employment, women (including housewives) and adults who wish to upgrade their education or acquire knowledge and studies in various fields.
• Provide equal educational opportunities for higher education through distance mode for a large segment of the population, including those in employment, women (including housewives) and adults who wish to upgrade their education or acquire knowledge and studies in various fields.
• Provide flexibility with regard to eligibility for enrolment, age of entry, choice of courses, methods of learning, conduct of examinations and operation of the programmes.
• Provide complement the programmes of the existing Universities in the State in the field of higher learning so as to maintain the high standards on par with the best universities in the country.
• Provide promote integration within the State through its policies and programmes.
• Provide offer degree courses and non-degree certificate courses for the benefit of the working population in various fields and for those who wish to enrich their lives by studying subjects of cultural and aesthetic values.
• Provide make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge.
• Provide serve as a source of continuing education, consultancy and to provide equal access to knowledge and higher education.