Garden City University was established under the Karnataka State Act of 2013 and was approved by the Government of India. Its mission is to become an institution that offers affordable world-class education to students of all backgrounds.
The university is located in Bangalore, the most populous city in South India and the capital of Karnataka state. Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India due to its thriving IT industry.
The university places a strong emphasis on skills-based learning. It is a learner-centric university, which means courses are designed in a way that gives students the flexibility and responsibility to choose what they want to study. The university has six different study routes: scholarly, managerial, skill-based, research, entrepreneurial, and academic.
Once students choose their requisite study programme, courses are organised into nine academic schools: commerce and management, science, media studies, social sciences, computational sciences and IT, health sciences, Indian and foreign languages, professional studies, and the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam School of Engineering.
