Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, Vadodara

Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya is a central university in Vadodara, Gujarat, devoted to education and research in transport and logistics. It started in 2018 as the National Rail and Transportation Institute, a deemed-to-be university, and the Central Universities (Amendment) Act, 2022 re-established it as a central university under its present name. The Ministry of Railways sponsors and funds the university, whose jurisdiction extends to the whole of India. Its address is at Lalbaug in Vadodara, and its teaching also draws on the Centralised Training Institutes of Indian Railways.

Undergraduates choose from seven four-year B.Tech programmes: civil, electrical, mechanical, and electronics and communication engineering, each with a rail engineering specialisation; artificial intelligence and data science for transportation and logistics; aviation engineering, developed with Airbus and Safran; and maritime engineering. B.Tech places are allotted on JEE Main scores through JoSAA and CSAB counselling. The university also runs regular MBA programmes in logistics and supply chain management and in ports and shipping logistics, which accept IMU-CET, CUET-PG, CAT, XAT or MAT scores, along with M.Tech and MBA courses for working professionals and PhD research.