Ujjain university receives emerging university award in Bengaluru

Samrat Vikramaditya Vishwavidyalaya, based in Ujjain, said it received the Best Emerging University of the Year 2026 award at the Century Club in Bengaluru on October 16.

Vice-Chancellor Dr Arpan Bhardwaj accepted the World Global Education Excellence Award on the university's behalf, the university said. It said the ceremony was jointly organised by the World Global Human Rights Council, the National Press Council of India and the Newspapers Association of Karnataka.

Registrar Anil Kumar Sharma said the recognition reflected the university's academic, research and innovation work. He cited 19 research projects worth Rs 100 crore under the PM-MERU scheme, a Rs 26 crore museum-renovation project under Gyan Bharatam, and a Rs 13.58 crore Saksham programme project with the Indian Institute of Technology.

The university also runs an MSME Incubation Centre to support youth entrepreneurship, Sharma said. It said educationists and diplomats attended the Bengaluru event.