Educational excellence

Advancing educational excellence.

Dr. Madhukar G Angur is the Founder and Chancellor of Alliance University. An educator, researcher and institution-builder, he has spent five decades turning ideas about learning into places where people learn.

Dr. Madhukar G Angur
2005Founded Alliance University
Ph.D.University of Texas at Arlington
1973Founded the Social Systems Research Institute
18+Years as Professor at the University of Michigan-Flint
2005Founded Alliance University, Bangalore
2×Nominated for Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year
Dr. Madhukar G Angur speaking
Education should change lives, be accessible, and match the world students are walking into.

Dr. Angur

An engineer's rigour, applied to education.

Dr. Madhukar G Angur is an academic and entrepreneur whose career spans continents. Trained in electrical engineering and marketing, with a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Texas at Arlington and a postgraduate diploma from IIM Ahmedabad, he brings an engineer's rigour to questions of strategy.

For nearly two decades he was Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he held the David M. French Distinguished Professorship and was named a Distinguished Michigan Professor. He went on to found Alliance University, and his work with the Social Systems Research Institute and the Alliance Business School Research Institute applies research and technology to hard societal problems.

The full story

Milestones

Four milestones across five decades.

  1. 1973

    Founding of the Social Systems Research Institute

    Founded SSRI, a consortium that provides customised social research and planning services to a range of sectors.

  2. 1997

    Distinguished Michigan Professor Award

    Awarded by the Michigan Association of University Governing Boards for Dr. Angur's contributions to marketing education and research.

  3. 2005

    Establishment of Alliance University

    Founded Alliance University and became its first Chancellor. The university set a benchmark for private higher education in India.

  4. 2010

    Launch of the Alliance Business School Research Institute

    Started the ABS Research Institute, which focuses on Technological Readiness Audits (TRA) and links academic work to what industry needs.

Research published in

Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Marketing Management, and others.

Planning something ambitious for your institution?

Keynotes, strategic planning, policy advice or a new programme: tell Dr. Angur's office what you have in mind.