Sumandeep Vidyapeeth

Sumandeep Vidyapeeth is a private, unaided deemed to be university at Piparia, Waghodia, near Vadodara in Gujarat. It was declared a deemed to be university in 2007 under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 (de novo category), and the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions recognised it as a Jain minority institution in 2014. NAAC re-accredited it in 2022 at A++ grade (CGPA 3.61 on a four-point scale), valid up to 10 January 2027, and UGC placed it in Category I in 2018. In NIRF 2025 it is in the 151-200 band of the University category. The campus covers more than 65 acres and has a teaching hospital of more than 1,300 beds.

The university has thirteen constituent institutes and departments: medical, dental, Ayurved, homoeopathic, physiotherapy, nursing, pharmacy, optometry, audiology and speech-language pathology, paramedical sciences, management, prosthetics and orthotics, and Jain philosophy and research. Programmes include MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BHMS, BPT, B.Pharm, Pharm.D, B.Sc. Nursing, MD, MS, DM, M.Ch., MDS, M.Pharm., M.Sc. in several health disciplines, MBA in Health Care and Ph.D. Its NIRF 2025 data submission records 3,022 undergraduate and 838 postgraduate students. MBBS, BDS and postgraduate medical and dental seats are allotted through MCC counselling, BAMS and BHMS through AACCC counselling, and the other programmes through the university's SVCET entrance test and merit.