Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (Women’s University)was founded in the year 1983 by Sri N.T.Rama Rao, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, with
the fervent desire to train women students as better builders of the Nation and to inculcate skills of leadership in all aspects of life.This is the first
Women’s University in the State of Andhra Pradesh and Second in the Nation which was established under the SPMVV Act of 1983,which has come into force on
the 14 of April 1983. It is comprised of four schools viz., The School of Sciences, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Management, School of Engineering
and Technology and College of Nursing offering 58 Post graduates and many under graduate programmes,International Twining prorammes and ODL programmes to 6400 plus girl students and women.
As Constituent department of University, The department of law was established in the year 1988. The department has been offering 3 years and 5 years L.L.B courses
and L.L.M programmee and Ph.D programmes. The department is acclaimed as the leader in the field of legal education to women in the state for over 30 years. Legal
education offered by the department is designed to give Professional Orientation besides promoting skills of advocacy and drafting of legal documents.
This University is endowed with many multidisciplinary and multi Institutional research grants , programmes and major research projects.There are 200+ National and
International research scholars take part in the PhD and Post Doctoral programmes and in major Research projects running in the campus.
International Twining programmes are being offered in the campus viz., Indo-Sweden BTech degree and different graduations of Classical Music and Dance programmes in
collaboration with TANA, Suswara and Raghavahini music academies, USA are being offered from this university.
The Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem is well nurtured. The SPMVV has established three Incubation centers in the campus viz.,The Technology
Business Incubator from DST, Women Biotech Incubator( The Bionest from DBT) and the Livelihood Incubator (from MSMe)towards incubating the culture of Innovation and
entrepreneurship among the students. Further, Many Student centric activities run in the campus like A. P. Skill development center, Dassault labs ( German collb),
centralized DST-CURIE labs and DST-CURIE- AI (Artificial Intelligence) labs and students clubs are active in involving the students in various skilling and technological
aspects.
The campus of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam is spread out in a serene and lush green area of 138.43 acres. The University is situated at a distance of 3 km
from the railway and bus stations of Tirupati and is well connected for Airways.
It is a great pride and honor to place on record that the students from SPMVV are always much preferred in the society when competed in their fields of profession.
The SPMVV alumni are highly placed in the respective professions of the society accomplishing the very Vision and Mission of this University.