Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education

Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education(SSAHE) is a Collegiate Private Deemed to be University in Karnataka State, India. It was established on 30-5-2008 as per Section 3 of UGC Act 1956, to improve the Quality of Technical Education in the Southern Karnataka. The university is named after Sri Siddhartha ( Gouthama Buddha), the university has located in Agalakote, Tumkur. SSAHE has 3 colleges affiliated to it with an intake capacity of over 800 undergraduate students and 200 postgraduate students. The university encompasses technical fields which offers a total of 11 undergraduate and 10 postgraduate courses. The university has around more than 100 PhD candidates. Presently, SSAHE has a TEQIP center and affiliated Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology offering post graduate courses. It has so many departments recognized as research centers which are spread across its affiliated institutions in Tumkur, Karnataka. It is the universities to have 1 of its affiliated college, Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology recognised by the World Bank for getting assistance in setting up state of art laboratories, campus facilities and research centers under the TEQIP (Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (Phase I & II), A Government of India initiative) program. The SSIT Campus, Tumkur campus of SSAHE, offer BE, M.Tech, MCA and PhD programs. The University has signed MoUs with various Multinational corporation to improve the industry interactions for both students and the teachers. SSAHE is one of the member universities of the Association of Indian Universities.