Andhra University is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926. It is graded as an A++ institution by NAAC receiving a score of 3.74 on a scale of 4.

Maharajah Vikram Dev IV or Vikram Deo Varma was the 25th king of the Suryavansh dynasty that ruled over Kalinga and later Jeypore Samasthanam under the British. A patron of the arts and literature, he was also a writer and a proficient playwright. He was also an administrator, a magistrate for Visakhapatnam by the Madras government in 1914 and involved in the delineation of the state of Odisha.