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Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research

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Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research is a deemed-to-be university in Kolar, Karnataka, India. Specialising in medical and health sciences education, its history dates back to the establishment of the Sri Devaraj Urs Educational Trust for Backward Classes in 1984 by Shri R. L. Jalappa to expand access to medical education and healthcare in Karnataka.

The university is located in rural Tamaka, 5 km from Kolar and 75 km from Bengaluru, on a green campus extending across approximately 100 acres. The campus accommodates the university administration, teaching facilities, student hostels, and the R. L. Jalappa Hospital and Research Centre, which serves as the main teaching hospital for medical and allied health sciences students. The hospital has a well-equipped Trauma Centre, ICU and CT and MRI scanning facilities, serving the rural and urban populations Kolar and neighbouring states, such as Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

Academically, it is divided into several faculties and schools including the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Physiotherapy, and the School of Law, offering a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, super-speciality, doctoral, and fellowship programmes.

Alongside MBBS and MD/MS degrees, the university offers programmes in nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacy, and a range of allied health professions. Postgraduate education has expanded across clinical, pre-clinical, and para-clinical specialities, while doctoral research is available in disciplines including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, ophthalmology, and ENT.

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