Facilities

All campuses of the University are well equipped with sports facilities – from cricket grounds to indoor stadiums, from playing fields to basketball courts. Each campus has a Physical Instructor who oversees the sports activities for students at that campus.

Two of the main sports facilities available for students are:

Sri Sathya Sai International Centre for Sports
A state of the art Olympic-standard multi-discipline indoor stadium was inaugurated on 22 November 2006, by the President of India, Honourable Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

With facilities for Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Squash, Table-tennis, Badminton, Gymnastics and Yoga/Aerobics, this stadium – measuring 100 metres by 60 metres on a 4.8 acre site, is amongst the largest open-frame space domes in the country. It has a spectator capacity of 4,000.

Sri Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium
A multi-purpose outdoor stadium, the Sri Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium was constructed for the purpose of conducting the Annual Sports and Cultural meet of all Sri Sathya Sai Educational institutions (an annual event on 11 January).

The stadium overlooks an array of imposing structures and statues symbolizing different religious faiths. On occasions, the stadium hosts International sports events. It boasts a viewers gallery that can accommodate over 25,000 people.

Each campus has a Physical Instructor who oversees the sports activities for students at that campus. The current Sports staff at the University are:

Each of the campuses of the Institute has got a well-established library. The Central Library located at the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, with an initial collection 15,000 volumes, has now swelled to 160,000 across all four campuses. The libraries house latest books and journals in diverse academic fields and spacious facilities for reading.

The Libraries receive about 250 periodicals, both National and International, that include an extensive collection of the back volumes of Journals. Audio, Video and CD-ROM collections, as well as Theses, Dissertations, Quick Reference Books, and other materials (including maps) are also available.

The University has access to around 2100 eJournals and 55,100 eBooks under the UGC INFONET Digital Library Consortium that include journals from reputed publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley-Blackwell, among many others. Subscriptions to business and corporate databases like Capitaline and EBSCO’s Business Source Premier (a business research database with around 2300 Journals) adds to the diversity of journal access for students.

Other services offered at the university libraries include referencing, photocopying, inter-libraryloans, etc.

The libraries are managed by the following staff members across the Campuses:

Three out of four campuses of SSSIHL have auditoriums that can accommodate about 900 people each. The auditoriums are used for daily prayers, Moral Class sessions on Thursdays, speeches and cultural events.

The University has well-equipped laboratories in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Biosciences, Nanosciences, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. The University has 1Gbps Internet connectivity under the aegis of the National Knowledge Network (NKN), for academic and research pursuits of staff and students. SSSIHL is also one of the few Universities in the country to have English Language Labs.

The modern Computer Centres at the campuses are equipped with hundreds of computers for use by the students. As a result, the student to computer ratio of the University now stands at 2:1, with 1:1 usage for each student (no students share use of computers when using one).

Multimedia Facilities
The air-conditioned Multimedia Learning Centres, with a seating capacity of over 100 participants at each campus, typically host national and international seminars, conferences and workshops. They are equipped with the latest Audio / Video conferencing facilities which enable active and real-time collaborations among staff and students of the three campuses of the University.

The Computer Centres and the Multimedia Learning Centres, the UMS (University Management System) and the Labs are being managed by the following members of staff: