The University has two campuses, the main campus at Visakhapatnam is spread over 97.33 acres and the Off-Campus at Hyderabad spread over 75 acres. The main campus is situated in the picturesque city of Visakhapatnam with well laid-out roads and gardens providing a serene atmosphere and ambience for peaceful pursuit of knowledge.
The University has state-of-the-art infrastructure to meet the requirements of organizing the academic programmes, comprising well laid-out and elegantly planned / engineered buildings for administration, academic departments, central facilities such as central library, hostels, play grounds, indoor stadium, etc.
There are 17 academic blocks, 10 hostels, 01 spacious library building and 02 administrative blocks. All the academic departments possess fairly adequate space to accommodate the classrooms, laboratories, departmental library and other facilities. The laboratories are provided with the sophisticated equipment, furniture, fixtures in accordance with good laboratory practices. The campus has good supply of potable water and 2012 KVA power supply generators.
The University has six auditoria with seating capacity of about 3000. These auditoria are used for organizing National & International Seminars / Conferences/ workshops, guest lectures of national & international repute, Campus placements, Student Tech–Festivals, Students’ meets, alumni meets, Parents Meets, Cultural programmes, etc.
The University library known as Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC) is located in Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Bhawan, an architectural marvel of GITAM. The Library has more than 12 lakh books (including e-books), periodicals, national and international journals. The Library is provided with Infonet Service that facilitates online access to more than 4,500 electronic journals published by different publishers. Further, 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) high speed bandwidth is provided in the University campus under the scheme of National Mission for Education through Information & Communication Technologies (NEMICT) sponsored by the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, providing connectivity to all the systems over the campus. Both the campuses at Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad have Wi-Fi facility.
The University provides adequate and up-to-date computing facilities to all the Departments including the University Library. The IT infrastructure in the campus includes over 3200 computers and these systems are connected in a very large campus-wide network through fiber optic backbone connectivity.
The University has good indoor and outdoor sports facilities viz., indoor stadium, gymnasia, running tracks, cricket ground, volley ball and basket ball courts, etc. The tennis courts are of international standard and many tournaments are organized in the University. Students are encouraged to participate in sports and cultural programmes. The University encourages girl students to participate in games & sports and extra curricular activities. There is a separate gym for girl students. Many boy and girl students participated in state level and national level sports competitions and won medals and prizes.
The University has hostel facilities separately for boys and girls in both the campuses. All the rooms of the hostels are well equipped and provided with internet facility. Most modern and mechanized kitchens in hostels provide hygienic food and potable water. The hostels are also provided with recreation and indoor game facilities.
For a comfortable living and learning, the campuses of the University are provided with facilities like post office, full fledged banking facility, food courts & canteens, books & stationery stores, medical shop, ATM centres, telephone exchange, hobby centre, students’ professional chapters, etc.
Details of the buildings both at Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad Campuses are given below:
Existing Buildings at Main campus, Visakhapatnam:
|
S.No.
|
Name of the Building
|
No.of Floors
|
Plinth area in Square Meters
|
|
Institute of Technology
|
| 1. |
Chandrahas Bhavan(ICT Bhavan)
|
8
|
34947
|
| 2. |
Sir Arthur Cotton Bhavan
|
4
|
8412
|
| 3. |
Sir Visweswarayya Bhavan
|
4
|
5801
|
| 4. |
Biotech Bhavan
|
4
|
2737
|
| 5. |
Civil Bhavan
|
4
|
2737
|
| 6. |
Mechanical Bhavan
|
4
|
3618
|
| 7. |
Industrial Engineering Bhavan
|
5
|
1794
|
|
Total :
|
60046
|
|
Institute of Science
|
| 7. |
Sir C.V. Raman Bhavan
|
5
|
7525
|
| 8. |
Science Laboratories Block
|
5
|
4537
|
|
Total :
|
12062
|
|
Institute of Management Studies
|
|
| 9. |
Madan Mohan Malaviya Bhavan
|
4
|
4957
|
| 10. |
GIFT Bhavan
|
4
|
4647
|
|
Total:
|
9604
|
|
Institute of Pharmacy
|
| 11. |
Yallapragada Subba Rao Bhavan
|
8
|
12185
|
|
Central Library
|
| 12. |
Sir Sarwepalli Radhakrishnan Bhavan (Knowledge Resource Centre)
|
5
|
4842
|
|
Central Administration
|
| 13. |
GITAM Bhavan
|
10
|
11093
|
| 14. |
GITAM Centre
|
4
|
1628
|
|
Total :
|
12721
|
|
Off-Campus at Hyderabad
|
| 15. |
Academic & Administrative Building
|
10
|
15973
|
| 16. |
Laboratories Block
|
1
|
770
|
| 17. |
Workshop
|
1
|
403
|
|
Total:
|
17146
|
|
Name of the Institute
|
Class Rooms
|
Waiting Halls
|
Students Rest rooms
|
Staff Rest rooms
|
|
Men
|
Women
|
Men
|
Women
|
|
Institute of Technology
|
118
|
5
|
23
|
19
|
4
|
3
|
|
Institute of Science
|
19
|
1
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
|
Institute of Management
|
32
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
|
Institute of Pharmacy
|
8
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
|
Hyderabad Campus
|
33
|
3
|
5
|
5
|
2
|
2
|
|
Total
|
210
|
3
|
35
|
31
|
11
|
10
|
Proposed Buildings to be constructed at Main campus, Visakhapatnam:
|
S.No.
|
Name of the Building
|
No. of Floors
|
Plinth area in Square Meters
|
| 1. |
School of Architecture and Civil Engineering Block
|
10
|
15490
|
| 2. |
Hostel for Men
|
12
|
19729
|
| 3. |
Hostel for Women
|
14
|
31807
|
| 4. |
Canteens
|
3 Nos.
|
3390
|
| 5. |
Staff Quarters (24 Units)
|
4
|
1828
|
Sports Infrastructure:
|
Particulars
|
Number
|
|
Play ground (Area: 7 acres)
|
01
|
|
Play ground (earmarked : 10 acres) to be developed
|
01
|
|
Cricket Field
|
01
|
|
Indoor Stadium (Plinth Area: 2345 Sq. Mt.)
|
01
|
|
Gym Halls – Separate for Boys and Girls
|
02
|
|
Courts*
|
24
|
*Tennis-4, Volleyball-4, Football-1, Handball-1, Throwball-2, Tennicoit-1,
Basketball-3, Badminton-4, Ball Badminton-1, Kabaddi-2, Kho-Kho-1.
Hostel facilities and other services
|
S.No.
|
Name of the Building
|
No.of Floors
|
Plinth area in Square Meters
|
|
Main Campus - Visakhapatnam
|
| 1. |
Sadarma Sadan (Boys Hostel)
|
3
|
7140
|
| 2. |
Shanthi Sadan (Boys Hostel)
|
4
|
4287
|
| 3. |
Vinay Sadan (Boys Hostel)
|
7
|
12116
|
| 4. |
Kokila Sadan (Girls Hostel)
|
6
|
13630
|
| 5. |
Staff Quarters (12 Nos.)
|
1
|
760
|
| 6. |
Support Services (11 Nos.)
|
1
|
3540
|
|
Total:
|
41473
|
|
Off Campus – Hyderabad
|
| 7. |
Boys Hostel (Block A)
|
4
|
7728
|
| 8. |
Boys Hostel (Block B)
|
4
|
7728
|
| 9. |
Boys Hostels Mess
|
1
|
1013
|
| 10. |
Girls Hostel (Block A)
|
4
|
6363
|
| 11. |
Girls Hostel (Block B)
|
4
|
5818
|
| 12. |
Support Services (07 Nos.)
|
1
|
1803
|
|
Total:
|
30453
|