Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University or simply Avadh University is a public university located at Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Named after Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia an epic socio-economic ideologue and freedom fighter par excellence. The university assumed the shape of residential University in the year 1975. In the ab initio the residential segment became functional with the opening of the four departments in the campus viz. History Culture and Archaeology, Rural Economics, Mathematics and Statistics and Physics and Electronics. The university has nurtured other premier institutes also. Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur, an institute offering Graduate & Postgraduate degrees in various Engineering streams, was affiliated to it. Later for batches commencing 2001 & onwards, this institute was brought under Uttar Pradesh Technical University. At campus level the University has been conducting Under Graduate / Post Graduate studies and researches in the disciplines of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics, Bio-Chemistry, Microbiology, Environmental Sciences and M.B.A. Besides, the subjects of Extension Education & Rural Development, Mass Communication & Journalism, M.S.W.