Type | Private research university |
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Established | 2014 |
Chancellor | Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
Vice-Chancellor | Somak Raychaudhury |
Academic staff | 200 |
Students | 4,500 |
Location | , , India |
Campus | 50 acres (20 ha) |
Colours | Red & Blue |
Affiliations | UGC, ACU[1] |
Ashoka University is a private research university located in National Capital Region (India), providing a liberal education in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Ashoka University houses the Trivedi School of Biosciences, Isaac Centre for Public Policy, the Science Policy Initiative, the Koita Centre for Digital Health at Ashoka (KCDH-A) and other centres for interdisciplinary education. It was founded in 2014 and is based on the model of collective philanthropy, with 200+ founders across various industries. [2][3]