Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU, Ahmedabad)

Rashtriya Raksha University is one of the top universities in Siddhpur, Gujarat. Here are the details about Rashtriya Raksha University -Courses, Fees, Placements, cut-off, Ranking, Facilities, and Reviews.

The University aims to become an academic-research-training ecosystem for security and police. Its endeavors focus on highly professional security, police education, research, and training through its qualified civilian and security faculty, committed human resources, motivated participants and students, intellectually stimulating and professional disciplined environment, and worldwide network, sharing, and exchange. It aims at providing security and strategic education in contemporary and futuristic security and strategic studies and interdisciplinary areas. The University contributes to the vision of India of Peace, Prosperous, and Stable World in alliance with grand strategic cooperation between like-minded nations and promoting greater understanding between senior security, police officers, diplomats, civil servants, and civilians to promote the cause of the Nation. It adopts a two-tier approach, at the national and international levels, in its education, research and training, and extension in order to achieve capabilities to respond to the needs, expectations, and aspirations of the security and strategic institutions and forces as well as law-making, governance, judiciary, economy (agriculture-manufacturing-service sectors) and the civil society organizations.

Accreditation and Ranking

Rashtriya Raksha University is Recognised by University Grants Commission (UGC) and accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

Courses offered

Rashtriya Raksha University courses are offered at various levels like Undergraduate Degrees (i.e Bachelor of Defence Studies, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) CSE in Cyber Security, etc) Postgraduate Degrees (i.e Master of Arts (MA) Criminology and Criminal Justice, Master of Arts (MA) International Relations, etc)and many more. You can also find a brief overview of the different courses offered by the university across various disciplines with their specializations on the Course page.

The University

The University is destined to grow as a model security educational University in India. Its endeavors focus on highly professional security, strategic and police education, research, and training through its qualified civilian and security and police faculty, committed human resources, motivated participants and students, intellectually stimulating and professional disciplined environment, and worldwide network, sharing, and exchange. It aims at providing security and strategic education in contemporary and futuristic security strategic and police studies and interdisciplinary areas.

The University contributes to a vision of India of Peace, Prosperous, and Stable World in alliance with grand strategic cooperation between like-minded nations and promoting greater understanding between senior security, police officers, diplomats, civil servants, and civilians to promote the cause of the Nation.  

It adopts a two-tier approach, at the national and international levels, in its education, research and training, and extension in order to achieve capabilities to respond to the needs, expectations, and aspirations of the security strategy and police institutions and forces as well as law-making, governance, security corporate industry and establishments.

People at The University

The University's eminence can be measured by its leadership, faculty, and programs of jointness of academic and research on one hand and strategic, military, and security forces on the other hand. The faculty comprises qualified, result-oriented, and enthusiastic academicians, researchers, and practitioners drawn from civilian and security/police backgrounds. They have acquired qualifications and experience from leading civilian and military, police universities and institutions of India and abroad and have publications and exposure in international conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and books and contributed to magazines and other relevant written media. Students or participants, while mainly come from security/military, police forces, and civilian backgrounds, diversity creates a mosaic of regional, linguistic, cultural, and ethnic diversity, which gives The University a national character, making it an “Indian Omnibus.”

The University aspires to attract and collaborate with institutions and individuals from around the world and will work towards building a network of eminent security strategists and policing planners, executives, scholars, academicians, members of para-military agencies, researchers, institutions, and governmental agencies. On the other hand, it aims at building its own capacities by integrating faculty training and up-gradation activities to transform the University into a self-sufficient center of learning and excellence. People at the University will work for creating the University an amalgam of strategic and security teaching, research, training, and extension.

Academic Partnership with the Strategic and Security Forces and Institutions

The University's engagement with the forces and institutions of strategic, security, police, and interdisciplinary fields and institutional reforms are evolving and gradually making a mark. It aspires to become a leading and most sought-after resource center to aid and advise these institutions at all levels. It envisages strategic engagements and collaborations between strategic and security and police forces, institutions, faculties, researchers, research centers, and students and these institutions to contribute to the strategic security and police culture and development within and outside India. Officers from Forces availing study leave for higher studies, including Ph.D., post-Doctoral and specialized research at the University.

Achieving Self-Reliance on Strategic Security and Police Resources – Material and Manpower alike

The University aims to contribute to achieving the time-bound completion of the goal of self-reliance on strategic security and police resources – defense manufacturing, acquisition, deployment, and exports through national and international collaboration. The University contributes to promoting the institutions, industry, and small-medium enterprises as well as innovation and incubation of enterprises towards this goal. The University aims to identify, promote and sustain areas of inclusion of women forces and achieve the necessary balance in terms of career opportunities, and executive and leadership roles. The University gives affirmative priorities in all its policies and programs to achieve the goal of gender balance in this regard.

Engagements with Foreign Institutions and Individuals

The University seeks to engage and collaborate with foreign institutions and agencies, including international organizations, such as UN Peace-Keeping Forces, UN Police, INTERPOL, International Maritime Organisation, International Telecommunication Union, UNCOPOUS, International Civil Aviation Organisation, etc., working for promoting and maintaining peace, security and global order based on respect for international law and comity of nations.

Engagements with Institutions of Law-Making, Governance, and Judiciary

Institutions of Law-Making, Governance, and Judiciary are the constituent organs of the nation’s overall growth and development. Systematic and timely interactions between the strategic and security educators and participants with them are essential. The University seeks to build and maintain close relations with these institutions to learn from their expectations and concerns and on its side, to contribute to their thinking, execution, and monitoring of laws, policies, and instruments of governance.

Engagements with Security Related Industrial, Economic, and Financial Sectors

Corporate and financial companies, Chambers of Commerce, and other commercial establishments are the drivers of the nation’s economy and are the leaders of national growth and prosperity in the present globalized and liberalized economy. With the expansion and diversification of the private and commercial sectors, the necessity for strategic thinking and security concerns has crossed all conventional boundaries and spread its expanse to various non-conventional areas.  The curriculum and pedagogy at the University are designed to train and equip and give exposure to the participants and students by way of teaching, specialized certificate courses, and non-teaching activities such as internships, exposure visits, interactions with forces, and experts, in order to make them most suited to the strategic and security institutions, national and international alike.

The University envisages engaging with people from manufacturing, and services in curricular and co-curricular activities of the University so as to provide an active platform for participants and students to learn and experience the nuanced understanding of these sectors and their interface with strategic and security laws, policies, and governance. It also aspires to create a network between the institutions, students, faculty, researchers, and these three sectors to promote sharing and collaboration, and learning.  

Commitment towards Sustainable Self-Security Nation

The University commits to significantly contribute to a sustainable self-security nation model whereby the Nation enjoys self-sustainable security for the homeland, energy, food, environment, water, knowledge, air and space, and maritime and land security as a whole. While welcoming the knowledge towards enhancing the sense of self-security from other nations and foreign institutions, the University gives priority to indigenous means, methods, and resources towards this wholesome concept of security.

The University – a Self-Sustaining Centre of Excellence

The University will keep ensuring that it remains a self-sustaining center of learning, research, training, and extension.  The University will strive towards mobilizing material resources and create a base of high net-worth and high networked individuals and institutions to achieve this end especially to carry out new activities and programs. A collective pursuit of core objectives will lead us to the path of success.

Vision

Ensuring the emergence of Rashtriya Raksha University as the Global Address for Security Education by setting the highest quality standards in consultation with security stakeholders; through experiential learning; addressing problem statements of security organizations; and overall strengthening the National Security Architecture.

Mission

To identify, prepare and sustain statecraft of national strategic and security culture through continuous enhancement and development of educational, research, and training cadres from the security, police, and civilian society.