Amity University was founded by Dr. Ashok Chauhan and it is a private multi-campus university having campuses at four different cities in India at Gugoan, Lucknow, Jaipur and Noida. Of these four campuses, Noida Campus is the main campus. The university was formed by an act of State Legislature and the University Grants Commission has recognized the university. The institutions coming under Amity University has acquired several credentials and some of them are as follows:

 The business school run under Amity University is given the seventh place among all other business schools in India.

 The education times has ranked Amity University as the No.1 private university.

 Among the private institutions for biotechnology, Amity’s biotechnology institution is ranked the first position continuously for three years.

The list of institutions coming under the jurisdiction of this university is given below:

• Amity College of Commerce & Finance

• Amity Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

• Amity Institute of Anthropology

• Amity Institute of Behavioral Health & Allied Science

• Amity Institute of Biotechnology

• Amity Institute of Competitive Intelligence

• Amity Institute of Education

• Amity Institute of English & Business Commn.

• Amity Institute of Global Legal Education and Research

• Amity Institute of Information Technology

• Amity Institute of Microbial Technology

• Amity Institute of Nano Technology

• Amity Institute of NGO Management

• Amity Institute of Organic Agriculture

• Amity Institute of Physiotherapy

• Amity Institute of Psychology & Allied Sciences

• Amity Institute of Space Science & Technology

• Amity Institute of Telecom Technology & Mgmt

• Amity Institute of Training & Development

• Amity Institute of Travel & Tourism

• Amity Centre For eLearning

• Amity Institute for Competitive Examinations (AICE)

The campus of Amity University is provided with world-class infrastructural facilities like air-conditions amphitheatre classrooms, library equipped with over 1 lakh books, CD-ROMs, international & national journals, periodicals covering all areas of research & educational materials and high tech laboratories that permits students to experiment and gain practical knowledge. One of the biggest strengths of Amity University is the 100% placement offered to the students. The alumni of the university are placed in top rated organizations all over the world like Reliance, HLL, Ernst & Young, McKinsey, etc…Students studying technical courses in the university are getting offer letters from top rated organizations even before the completion of their course.