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Dr. Parul Patel, The Vice President of Parul University, Vadodara!

Dr. Parul Patel

The Vice President of Parul University, Vadodara!
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The Vice President of Parul University, Vadodara!


Dr. Parul Patel is the Vice President and Chairperson of the Admissions Committee at Parul University, one of India's fastest-growing universities based in Vadodara.

The university and the trust both carry her name. Dr. Parul Patel did her MD in Organon from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University in Patan. Before turning to institution building she spent eight years teaching as a Professor at Rajkot Homoeopathic Medical College. The first institution the trust set up was Ahmedabad Homeopathic College, back in 1993. Engineering and management institutes came six years after that, university status took another two decades on top of that.

She personally sits with over 8,000 students every year and guides them through the admission process. Every regulatory body's rules and requirements are kept in check through this. Her awareness campaigns have reached more than 15,000 students across Gujarat, covering admissions in Engineering, Paramedical, Management, and other professional and non-professional programs.

She is also a Managing Trustee of Parul Arogya Seva Mandal Trust. She sits as an executive member on the Board of Governance of Parul University. And she is a Member of the Central Council of Homoeopathy, the body that governs homoeopathic education and practice across India. On the education front, she is Managing Trustee of Anand Vidya Vihar School and New Era Senior Secondary School in Vadodara. Moreover, she is also a Director at Parul Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.


CAREER & LEADERSHIP JOURNEY


Her roots in teaching naturally expanded her vision of serving ahead. Dr. Parul Patel's roots are in homoeopathic medicine. She spent eight years teaching at Rajkot Homoeopathic Medical College as a Professor before her path shifted toward university administration. Since that shift was deeply personal, the Parul Arogya Seva Mandal Trust and the university that grew from it both carry her name, and that says everything about how central she has been to what this institution is.

As Vice President of Student Affairs and General Administration she became the main point of contact for student welfare across the entire 250 plus acre campus. When admissions season comes around she does not manage it from a distance, she puts in 12 plus hours every single day for over five months straight, sitting with students and guiding them through the process without a break.

Her work also goes into homoeopathic education at the national level, as a Member of the Central Council of Homoeopathy which governs homoeopathic education and practice across India.


VISION & STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARUL UNIVERSITY


As Chairperson of Admissions, she has built a comprehensive admissions system that personally guides 8,000+ students annually through the process across all faculties and disciplines, from Engineering and Management to Medical, Paramedical, Law, Design, and more.

Her awareness campaigns across Gujarat have reached over 15,000 students, providing clarity on admissions processes for professional and non-professional courses. Her student-centered approach has been a key driver of Parul University's enrollment growth from 4,033 students in 2015–16 to 70,000+ today, including 6000+ international students from 75+ countries.

On the student affairs front, Dr. Parul Patel leads the general administration that supports 27,000+ students in on-campus residences, ensuring quality of campus life including dining, hostel management, and student well-being.

Her membership in the Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) strengthens Parul University's standing in homoeopathic education nationally. She also received the "Leading University in Gujarat" award at the Pride of Gujarat ceremony organized by News 18, alongside the outgoing Vice Chancellor, from Hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Bhupendra Patel.


BOARD MEMBERSHIPS, ADVISORY ROLES & AFFILIATIONS

Vice President (Student Affairs & General Administration)

Parul University, Vadodara

Chairperson, Admissions Committee

Parul University

Managing Trustee - Parul Arogya Seva Mandal (PASM) Trust

Governing trust of Parul University, founded 1989

Executive Member, Board of Governance

Parul University

Member - Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH), Government of India

National governing body of homoeopathic education and practice

Managing Trustee

Bal Shikshan Samiti (Anand Vidya Vihar School), Vadodara

Managing Trustee

The Gujarat New Era Education Trust (New Era Senior Secondary School), Vadodara

Director

Parul Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.

Trustee

Parul Sevashram Hospital


RECOGNITIONS & MILESTONES

"Leading University in Gujarat" - Pride of Gujarat Awards, News 18

Received from Hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Bhupendra Patel (alongside Dr. M N Patel, outgoing Vice Chancellor)


SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES

NAAC A++ Accreditation

India's youngest university to achieve this grade - 2023

UGC Category 1 University with Graded Autonomy

NIRF Innovation Ranking #11 - 2025

175+ National and International Awards across academics, innovation, sustainability, placements, and social impact

Best Private University in Gujarat

Awarded by Hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat

"Crusader of the Youth" Award

Decade of IIMUN, Mumbai

Best Campus Award

ASSOCHAM Education Summit


EVER-EVOLVING ROOTS IN HOMEOPATHY


Dr. Parul Patel's medical background is in homoeopathy, with an MD in Organon – the foundational philosophy and principles of homoeopathic practice. She served as Professor at Rajkot Homoeopathic Medical College for 8 years before joining Parul University's administration.

Her membership in the Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH), the Government of India body governing homoeopathic education and practice, gives her a national perspective on AYUSH education policy and practice standards. This role also strengthens Parul University's six AYUSH colleges – which are the first in India from a single private university to have all six accredited by NABH.


HER CONTRIBUTION IN STUDENT WELFARE


  • COVID-19 Relief: Coordinated distribution of 185 ration kits and 605
    hygiene kits to 938 beneficiaries across old age homes and
    orphanages in Vadodara during the pandemic
  • Student Welfare: Ensures quality of campus life for 27,000+
    residential students by personally supervising mess quality, hostel
    standards, and student well-being programs

FAQs

Look, Dr. Parul Patel runs a lot of things at Parul University simultaneously and that's just the reality of it. Vice President, Chairperson of Student Affairs, General Administration, and the Admissions Committee, all hers. Her actual academic background is homoeopathy, she did her MD in Organon from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University up in Patan. Organon is the philosophy and foundational principles side of homoeopathy, not clinical, more theoretical, just so that's clear. She's also Managing Trustee of PASM, the Parul Arogya Seva Mandal Trust, which is the 1989 charitable trust that the whole university is legally built on top of.

Student Affairs and General Administration, that's her area. 250-acre campus, 27,000-plus kids living on it full time. The residential scale alone is something most people don't quite register until they've actually walked around the place. Admissions is where her work gets genuinely punishing though. Over 8,000 students are guided personally through the process every year, she's not delegating that, she's actually in it.

MD in Organon, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan. Organon is the philosophical end of homoeopathy principles, foundations, the thinking behind the practice rather than the hands-on clinical side. Eight years before Parul she was teaching as a Professor at Rajkot Homoeopathic Medical College, so she came up through classrooms not boardrooms, which probably explains some things about how she deals with students now. CCH membership, Central Council of Homoeopathy, Government of India, means she's genuinely part of national-level conversations about how homoeopathy gets taught and regulated across India. That's not a rubber stamp role, it actually matters.

4,033 students in 2015-16. 70,000-plus today. 6,000 of those came from over 75 different countries. That gap between then and now didn't close by itself; someone had to build the pipelines that bring students in, process them, and keep the whole intake machine running year after year without it breaking down. Her outreach campaigns across Gujarat have personally reached over 15,000 students covering Engineering, Paramedical, Management, Medical, Law, Design, the full range of what's on offer. News 18 ran the Pride of Gujarat event, and "Leading University in Gujarat" award there, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel acknowledged her contributions.

The thing that probably deserves more attention than it gets, Parul University's six AYUSH colleges are the first from any single private university in India where all six have been NABH accredited at the same time. NABH is the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals. Getting one institution through NABH is a serious process.