Dr. Francis C. Peter, President of Dr. K.N Modi University, Rajasthan is having more than 2 decades of wide ranging experience in academics, financial sector and industry. Prior to his current assignment as the President, he was serving as Vice- Chancellor of Bhagwant University in Ajmer
He has also served in various senior level capacities such as the Chairman of the Board of Studies (Engineering) of Kannur Govt. University, Kerala, Principal of Lal Bahadur Sastri College of Engineering (L.B.S), Kasaragode, (A Kerala Govt. Institution ), Principal of Hindustan College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Dean (Engineering) in Lovely Professional University ,Jalandhar, Punjab.His first stint in academics was as Associate Professor (Technology Management) with Manipal Institute of Management (a constituent college of Manipal University), Karnataka State. His first employment was as Senior Engineer for 9 years with K.C.P.L, Kerala, a joint venture of Mitsubhishi Corporation, Japan, Nitta Gelatin Incorporated, Japan and K.S.I.D.C He was recruited by IDBI, Mumbai as Assistant General Manager (Venture Capital Department & Economic Research) in which position he worked for 3 years.
He took his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Trichur and M. Tech from Coimbatore Institute of Technology. He was awarded Doctorate by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala for his research studies on “Problems and Prospects of Technology Management with Special Reference to Appropriate Technology”.
President's Message
Dear Students,
First of all I whole heartedly welcome all of you to this prestigious University in Rajasthan.
The First school of thought regarding University Education is the cultivation of the mind, skills, habits, ideas, capabilities and potentials for a better life.
Again the scope of University Education is to open the mind, correct it, to refine it, to enable it, to know and digest, master, rule and use its knowledge to give the power to faculties, application, flexibility method, critical exactness, sagacity, resource, address, eloquent expression, an object as intelligible-as the cultivation of virtue, while, at the same time, It is absolutely distinct from it.
We the Dr. K.N.Modi University, Rajasthan are really committed in attaining the above.
I believe all of you will really get enriched and benefitted during your stay in this well- equipped campus.
We extend our best wishes and look forward to your success.