Parul University Foundation – Founders, History, Placements, Courses and Rankings Explained!

The story of Parul University begins not in 2015 but in 1989, when Dr. Parul Patel’s father founded the Parul Arogya Seva Mandal Trust (PASM) with the objective of advancing education, social welfare, and healthcare.

The university and the trust are named after her. Dr. Parul Patel holds an MD in Organon from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, and served as Professor at Rajkot Homoeopathic Medical College for eight years before dedicating herself to institution-building.

The first academic institution under the trust, Ahmedabad Homeopathic College, was established in 1993. This was six years before the first engineering or management institute was added and over two decades before university status was granted.

From 2008 onwards, Dr. Devanshu Patel, building on the foundation that Dr. Parul Patel had established, began creating additional institutions: Parul Institute of Management and Research (2008), Parul Institute of Physiotherapy (2009), Parul Institute of Business Administration (2010), Parul Institute of Technology (2010), Parul Institute of Architecture and Research (2012), and Parul Institute of Computer Application (2012).

The trust also established Parul Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, approved by the National Medical Commission with 150 MBBS seats, supported by the 750+ bed Parul Sevashram Hospital (NABH accredited, 1,100+ outpatients daily).

• Campus: 250+ acre modern, well-equipped campus in Vadodara, Gujarat
• Students: 70,500+ enrolled across diverse disciplines
• International students: 6,000+ from 75+ countries
• International collaborations: 120+ global academic and industry tie-ups
• Recruiters: 2,200+ companies actively hiring. Highest package: 60 LPA
• Programmes: 200+ diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes
• Awards: 175+ national and international awards and accolades
• Startups: PIERC has incubated 254 startups, Rs 40 Cr+ revenue generated and 20 Cr + funding provided to startups, 1,100+ jobs. Shark Tank India deals. Rs 15 Cr+ startup funding.
• Research funding: Rs 58.31 Cr total Government Funded research, 4.37 Cr Private Funded research, 315 funded projects from DHR (GOI), GSBTM, ISRO, CSIR, Royal Academy of Engineering (UK). Springer Nature License Agreement.
• Faculty: 3,500+ including 200+ from IITs, NITs, IISc, NIDs, NIFTs. 100+ international visiting professors (IVPP).
• Residential: 27,000+ in-campus accommodation
• Accreditation: NAAC A++ with 3.55 CGPA (youngest in India), UGC Entitled, Diamond Rating QS I-GAUGE, NIRF Innovation Top 50, THE Top 100 globally for Interdisciplinary Science.

Dr. Parul Patel is the founding figure of Parul University. The institution and the PASM Trust are named after her, not as an honour but as a reflection of the foundational contribution she made before anyone else joined.

She established the trust in 1989 and the first academic institution (Ahmedabad Homeopathic College) in 1993. She is currently Vice President (Student Affairs and General Administration) and Chair of the Admissions Committee. Her close relationship with students, maintained across three decades and tens of thousands of graduates, has defined the institutional culture from the very beginning.

Dr. Devanshu Patel is the President of Parul University. He holds an MBBS and an MD in Pharmacology from the Medical College, Baroda (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda). Building on the foundation that Dr. Parul Patel established the engineering, management, technology, and architecture institutes from 2008 onwards that expanded the trust into a multi-disciplinary ecosystem.

His conviction that the world needs job creators led to PIERC (254+ startups, Shark Tank deals). His belief in research as the driver of academic progression built the Research and Development Cell, the MNRDC, and partnerships with IIT Palakkad and IIT Ropar.

Dr. Geetika Madan Patel is the Vice President and Medical Director for the Parul Group of Hospitals and has successfully established the Social Responsive Cell for health, education, and women’s development. She has received the Icons Award in Healthcare and the Top Women Edupreneur Award.

Under her guidance, Parul University has contributed enormously to the research domain and have successfully published Alzheimer’s research in Pharmaceuticals, expanded its research portfolio under a Springer Nature License Agreement, and was represented as a panellist at the Universities Australia Solutions Summit in Canberra, speaking alongside Vice Chancellors of all Australian universities.

Dr. Komal Patel is the Vice President of Medical and Paramedical Health Sciences at Parul University, Vadodara. She also serves as Medical Director. She is Managing Trustee of the Parul Arogya Seva Mandal Trust and a core member of the Governing Body of Parul University. She studied at Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad. She’s a Gold Medalist in her MBBS, then did her post-graduation in Gynecology and Obstetrics. She has been practicing as a gynaecologist and laparoscopic surgeon ever since.

She runs Parul Ayurveda Hospital and also manages the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department at Parul Sevashram Hospital. She personally got involved in building surgical departments across the hospital system. Under her leadership four hospitals got NABH accreditation. Subsequently, she is also Trustee of Parul Sevashram Hospital, and a Director of Parul Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.

The mission was not just to secure placements but to build a business-ready mindset that empowers students to carve their own path. Every event at Parul University is organised by students for students, functioning as a compressed, execution-based curriculum in marketing, finance, leadership, technology, and entrepreneurship.

• Suraj Jagtap: 60 LPA (highest package). Pranshu Kumar: 45 LPA. Suhani Shah: Goldman Sachs. Tanishkumar: Microsoft. Kondapalli: BP. HashedIn by Deloitte placed 6 students. LTI Mindtree hired 84, Hexaware 33, Bank of America 12.
• Jaydeep Findoria: BA LLB from Parul University (2024) is now Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of India. UGC NET. GSET. PhD Scholar at Delhi University. LLM from GNLU. Felicitated as Distinguished Alumni by Justice Pankaj Mithal.
• Animesh Narayan: Indian Navy. Shivum Javiya: FIRST from PU to clear AFCAT for IAF Flying Branch. SUO Dheeraj Singh: PM’s Baton. Samarth Kulkarni: AIR 11 in NCC shooting.

• 230+ startups Rs 30 Cr+ cumulative revenue. 1,100+ direct jobs. 37 women-founded ventures.
• Shark Tank India: Rehabveda deal on Season 5 (Namita Thapar). Season 2 finalist. Rs 1 Cr investment secured.
• Crunchy Wavez: Devanshi Bhatt and Parth (3rd year B.Tech Food Tech), launched by Gopal Snacks CEO, 16-person team.
• Anjali Khichar: SSIP grant in first 10 days on campus, now runs three ventures. Priyanshi Rathod: Rs 1.2 lakh, paid pilots with 3 universities.

• VFF: 40 student-run restaurants from scratch. Celebrity chefs including MasterChef winner Nayanjyoti Saikia judged. 10,000+ visitors.
• PIMC: law students organised, Mahi Singh anchored valedictory, Riya Kumari coordinated logistics, Muskan Singh attended as first-year. Judged by Justice Pankaj Mithal (SC), Justice Kathpalia (Delhi HC), Fox Mandal partner Saurabh Bindal.
• VVF: fine arts students alongside 15 master artisans. Dr Devanshu Patel walked every stall, recognised Molela terracotta, compared student glass blowing to Venice.

• Anand Joshi: Development of State-of-art Micro-Nano Research & Development Center:
• Unnati Joshi: Establishment of Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Research & Technology
• Malvi Surti: Alzheimer’s in Pharmaceuticals (IF 4.8). NEU1 extracellular vesicle glycosylation.
• Asha Patel: Rs 32.10L GSBTM. Nanotheranostics. Cancer detection + therapy in one step.
• Mukul Jain: Rs 34.23L GOI. 3D bio-printer for blood vessels.
• Pratik Vora: Indian patent for Bortezomib. Affordable cancer treatment.
• Debarati Halder: Q1 on deepfakes with Leeds University UK.
• Smitha Nair MK: Ayurveda mushroom + Amalaki for Vitamin D (70% of India).
• Nitesh Patel: Solar desalination with nanotechnology. Patent granted.
• MNRDC: SEM, XRD, AFM, DSC, tribometers, sputtering. IIT Palakkad MoU + IIT Ropar Centre of Excellence (Rs 1.17 Cr). ISRO, CSIR, Royal Academy of Engineering UK funded projects.

• INSPIRE NZ: India’s first NZ Centre of Excellence at a private university (7 NZ universities)
• Humber 2+2: India’s first dual degree with Canada (PGWP eligible)
• Australia: students at WSU (Agriculture 2+2) and CSU (Computer Science). Dr Geetika panellist at UA Summit.
• Erasmus+ UMH Spain. BFH Switzerland COIL. IVPP: 20 professors from 12+ countries.
• Campus visitors: Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, CJI Chandrachud, General Naravane, MS Dhoni, Spanish PM’s wife Begona Gomez (visited PIERC).

• Sharmishtha Patil (Bombay HC): PIMC is well-structured and impactful, contributing to advancement of mediation and ADR in India
• Vediccaa Ramdanee (Delhi HC, ex-Shardul Amarchand, ex-L&L Partners): seamlessly conducted with exceptional talent
• Priyanka Sethia (OP Jindal, LSE): participants balanced legal positions with commercial practicality
• Fox Mandal (87,000+ LinkedIn followers): Partner Saurabh Bindal adjudicated PIMC final alongside Justice Kathpalia (Delhi HC)
• Jaydeep Findoria (SC Law Clerk, PU alumnus): It was an immense pleasure to meet my wonderful professors. Thank you my beloved juniors for tagging me as Distinguished Alumni.
• Austrade selected Parul University as one of only 7 Indian institutions. Australia hosts such a delegation only with India.

Ten years ago, on 7 April 2015, a trust built around Dr. Parul Patel’s vision got the formal acknowledgement. A decade later, from its home in Vadodara, Parul University stands as an institution that challenges and reshapes the way people perceive private universities in Gujarat and across India. The Supreme Court clerkship pipeline in India runs through a handful of institutions, almost by convention.

The startup incubator with Shark Tank deals and Rs 30 crore-plus in revenue from incubated ventures is the part that maps most directly onto what Viksit Bharat 2047 is actually trying to build. India doesn’t need more graduates standing in placement queues. It needs people who create the queues. An incubator that produces ventures generating real revenue, not projected revenue, not seed rounds, actual revenue, is contributing to that in a measurable way.