Gujarat Technological University


Gujarat Technological University , commonly referred as GTU, is a state university affiliating many engineering, pharmacy, and management colleges in Gujarat state, India. The university is headed by the state government and came into existence on 16 May 2007. Engineering institutes such as Lalbhai Dalpatbhai College of Engineering, Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College and many Government Engineering Colleges are a part of GTU.
Earlier, Gujarat University was the prime university of Gujarat state heading all colleges including technical colleges. To ensure more efficient, and systematic imparting of technical education, the state government formulated GTU. GTU declares results all around from February to April for winter exams and all around from June to August of summer exams. Currently 486 Colleges are affiliated to this GTU from across Gujarat with over 400,000 students.

Affiliated colleges

GTU affiliates the colleges for the Diploma, Degree and Master of engineering courses comprising to Ph.D. Doctoral Programs and Pharmacy courses for Bachelors and Masters, Management courses and MCA.
Notable affiliated Engineering colleges include:
GTU established 'GTU Innovation Council' at ACPC Building, LD Campus in the year 2013. GTU Innovation Council, also known as GIC, is headed by Hiranmay Mahanta. The aim of GTU Innovation council is to facilitate student startups by providing necessary facilities, organizing workshops, helping student to find relevant mentors and other activities weekly. GIC also conducts workshops on Training the professors, Flash Ventures, Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Design Thinking and Ideation workshops. GIC established a separate wing of IP Clinic, which helps students to easily patent their innovative ideas and projects. GIC also looks after GTU's UDP program, which authenticates Final year student projects, on quality and genuineness perspectives.Thus it will give them relevant idea.
GTU Innovation Council took the momentum when they launched Crowdfunding Initiator program in association with Start51, an indigenous crowd-funding platform in India. Crowdfunding Initiator is aimed to help student startups with necessary guidance and funding. About 70 student startups from around Gujarat enrolled, out of which only few projects where selected for the one-month-long bootcamp. This bootcamp which was organized from 16 June 2014 to 12 July 2014, was divided into four part: Ideation, Incentive Model, Pitch Presentation and Funding. By the end of bootcamp, Crowdfunding Initiator successfully took 8 projects live on a dedicated crowdfunding portal for funding.