Innovations in Private Universities : A Case of Srinivas University

Private universities have acknowledged importance in improving the quality of higher
education due to their autonomy, motive and capacity to introduce innovations. Since they
are self-financing entities, introducing innovations is vital to their sustainability. Srinivas
University, as a private self-financing university, established in the year 2015 aims to become
the most innovative higher education institution in India to bridge the gap between
conventional education and next generation education through initiating radical reforms and
thereby fulfill the goal of its founder to become most innovative higher education University.
Srinivas University believes that scholastic backwardness is an inevitable product of
marginalization and hence comprehensive development and inclusion agenda for minority,
marginalized and scholastically backward students could create the necessary change. All
major streams like medicine, engineering - technology and humanities finds place among the
plethora of courses offered by the University. Being not-for-profit university, it aims to bring
in innovations through curriculum design and implementation, teaching-learning process,
examination and evaluation so that the students standout differently to become star
performers. The vision of Srinivas University is to create star performers who would be
intellectually robust, technically competent economically productive, socially inclined,
ethically and emotionally sound to be best suited to face emerging challenges in all walks of
life. In this paper, we have studied STAR framework as an overall beacon for development of
Srinivas University.