About ICFAI University

Can you tell me in detail about the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) University? Provide me the contact detail of Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) University?

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The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) was established in 1984 as a not-for-profit educational society in Telangana, India offering education through its various programs in the field of higher education in India.

It was founded by N.J. Yasaswy, Besant C. Raj and Dr. Prasanna Chandra, the Director of Centre for Financial Management.

It has a national presence with the sponsoring and establishment of eleven universities across India.

Ten of these eleven universities have been established in the states of Uttarakhand, Tripura, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh through acts passed by the legislative assemblies of the respective states.

The eleventh university, namely the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), has been declared as a deemed-to-be University.

Its vision is to establish a Pan-Indian network of Research and Teaching Universities in different states to ensure high quality academic delivery and to promote a strong research culture among the faculty members; to deliver career-oriented educational programs of quality and develop an expanding pool of faculty members through rigorous Ph.D Program. To collaborate with leading Universities/Institutions for student-exchange and faculty-exchange programs and to become a socially-responsible University network to improve access, to promote equity and to encourage excellence.

Its primary mission is to create a cadre of professional people who have been imparted specialized skills, who have learnt to consider problems from a broad perspective and who have acquired a heightened sense of moral and social responsibility that their future positions of leadership demand of them.

ICFAI has contributed in several ways to the society

Creating employment for teaching and non-teaching staff

Faculty development programs

Merit-based admissions, no management quota, no capitation fee/donation

Its significant investments in campus development (without seeking any external assistance from State Government/Central Government/North East Council)

It brings quality higher education to the door-step in different States in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, courseware and evaluation processes developed over 25 years.

It is present in 5 (Tripura, Sikkim, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland) out of 8 land locked North East States.

Placement opportunities throughout India through balanced development of right knowledge, soft skills and positive attitudes

Preference to local students and teachers

Universities are set-up in other educationally under-developed States also; Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Raipur (Chattisgarh).