Meet our Founder
Dr. Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Founder of DY Patil
University
Dr. Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Founder
The former Governor of Bihar, Tripura & West Bengal, and recipient of the prestigious Padmashree Award, Dr. D. Y. Patil is a well-known educationist and philanthropist. He firmly believed that youth in India needed a greater platform that offered multiple opportunities to educate themselves across geographies. He envisioned spreading education across the length and breadth of India and started the journey with the first engineering college called Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology (RAIT) in Navi Mumbai in the year 1983. There has been no turning back since with the DY Patil Group taking giant leaps in the fields of education, healthcare & sports under his mentorship.
”We started our education journey close to four decades ago in the 1980s with the idea of making good education accessible for our youth. Throughout the course of this long and rewarding journey, our endeavour has been to build a diverse yet welcoming community that can be instrumental in shaping the future of our country. As the world grows smaller and more connected, we’re beginning to live and work with people who don’t look like us, don’t think like us, don’t come from the same place as us, and don’t share the same values and principles as us. In this world’s converging into one large community, lies the biggest opportunity for the current generation. The opportunity to come together, exchange perspectives and collectively solve problems and do good for the entire human race.”