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| Type | Open university |
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| Established | 2 October 2020 |
| Chancellor | Governor of Kerala |
| Vice-Chancellor | Jagathy Raj V. P. |
| Pro-vice-chancellor | S. V. Sudheer |
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| Campus | Rural |
| Registrar | Dimpi V. Divakaran |
| Affiliations | University Grants Commission |
| Website | sgou |
Sreenarayanaguru Open University (SGOU) is a public state open university located in Kollam, Kerala, established in 2020 by The Sreenarayanaguru Open University Act, 2021 (Kerala Act No 1 of 2021). The first open university in Kerala, it was approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2021.
With its establishment, all the distance education courses offered by state-run universities (Kannur University, Mahatma Gandhi University, University of Calicut, and University of Kerala) until then came under the administrative control and purview of SGOU, making it currently the only public university in Kerala to offer distance education.
The university was established by the promulgation of an 45th Ordinance of 2020 to that effect by Governor of Kerala on 25 September 2020[1] and was inaugurated by Pinarayi Vijayan, chief minister of Kerala, on 2 October 2020 in a function held at Kollam. The university has been named after Narayana Guru and has its headquarters at KureepuzhainKollam.[2][3] P M Mubarak Pasha was appointed as the first vice-chancellor and S V Sudheer as the first pro-vice-chancellor of the university.[4] The university was approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2021.[5]
The university shall have the following schools of study:
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