U. P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University

Motto in English	Reaching to unreached
Type	State
Established	1999 (25 years ago) (1999)
Accreditation	NAAC B+
Chancellor	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Vice-Chancellor	Seema Singh
Location	Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
Campus	urban
Affiliations	UGC
Website	www.uprtou.ac.in

Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University is a public university in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is named after Rajarshi Purushottam Das Tandon.

Academics

Academic programmes

List of courses offered by university are as under:^[1]

• First Degree Programmes
• Post Graduate Programmes
• General Diploma Programme
• Certificate Programme
• Computer Programmes
• Vocational Programmes
• Professional Programmes
• Awareness Programmes
• Adult & Continuing Education Programmes
• Research Programme

Library

The university library was established in 2000 with a meagre collection of 279 books. At present, the library holds the collection on different streams of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and developing sciences. Its collection has reached up to 41,387 volumes of books and 92 learned journals besides 5 daily newspapers and 12 other periodicals. The library serves faculty members, supporting staff, research scholars and more than 50,000 students spread all over Uttar Pradesh. It is the apex body to provide library and information services to its students and others. A regional library at Allahabad Regional Centre has opened as its branch library. It is also in planning to establish regional libraries at other region, Sector – F, Phaphamau, Allahabad. The librarian is Dr. T.N. Dubey.