JUST five minutes away from the University of Guyana (UG) campus at Turkeyen, the D.Y. Patil Group is constructing a new tertiary education institution, named Ajeenkya D. Y. Patil University, and it is expected to be completed soon.
The D.Y Patil Group is highly regarded as one of the largest educational groups in India. Dr. Padmashree D.Y. Patil founded it in 1983. The group’s activities encompass the fields of Education, Healthcare‚ Agriculture and Sports.

It has over 160 institutions of learning encompassed in its three universities‚ based at Navi, Mumbai‚ Pune and Kolhapur. The group manages three hospitals in India and provides affordable healthcare and medical attention to scores of needy people.
The D.Y. Patil International Cricket Stadium at Mumbai is rated one of the six best stadiums in the world and among the best sporting facilities in India.

A frontrunner in the education field‚ the D.Y Patil Group is a name synonymous with quality education. The group strongly believes that world class education is the stepping stone to progress, according to a release.
With a longstanding commitment to quality teaching and learning, the group has nurtured values that go into the making of successful careers. Equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure‚ the group encourages its students to think, question‚ explore and apply their well-honed minds to scale newer heights of success.
Dr. Ajeenkya D.Y Patil is the chairman of the D.Y Patil Group. He possesses a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Richmond College, UK, and specialised in Marketing at London School of Economics. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University Of Central Lancashire, UK in recognition of his work as an entrepreneur and an educationalist.
He has a natural curiosity for technology and innovation and a penchant for world class quality. His persona reflects dynamism with compassion. It is his exemplary vision that led to the initiation of DYPDC – a truly unique institution and several other institutions of repute under the aegis of D.Y Patil Group, the release concluded.