Who Owns Amity University?

The Amity Education Group traces its origins to 1986, when Ashok K. Chauhan established the Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, named for his parents. Chauhan, who had worked abroad in Germany before returning to India, began with management and technical institutes in Delhi.

Through the 1990s and early 2000s, the group expanded into law, engineering, and other disciplines under affiliated-college and institution models, building the Amity brand around large, modern campuses and aggressive marketing. When India's private university legislation allowed groups to charter full universities, Amity was among the first movers.

Amity University Noida was established in 2005 through an act of the Uttar Pradesh legislature, creating the group's flagship university on a large campus in Sector 125, Noida. State private universities followed in rapid sequence: Jaipur in Rajasthan, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Gurgaon (Gurugram) in Haryana, Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai in Maharashtra, Pune, Kolkata, and others.

International expansion began in parallel. Amity opened operations in Dubai in the mid-2000s and extended to Singapore, London, New York, Tashkent, Mauritius, and Abu Dhabi, making it one of the most internationally distributed Indian education groups. Several international campuses serve primarily Indian and South Asian expatriate students.

By the mid-2020s, the group claimed roughly 175,000 students across its universities, schools, and affiliated institutions, positioning itself as India's largest private education network by total enrollment.