Anant National University is a private university in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, focused on design, architecture, the built environment, climate action, and sustainability. The institution traces its academic roots to architecture and planning programs that operated under Gujarat University and Gujarat Technological University before the university was established in 2016. Anant describes itself as India's first design university, with a mission centered on preparing solution-oriented professionals who can address social, environmental, and economic challenges through design thinking and responsible innovation. The university offers undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, and fellowship-based learning across design, architecture, built environment, technology, and climate-related fields. Its academic approach combines studio practice, field immersion, research, making, systems thinking, and interdisciplinary problem solving. Anant has also developed specialist initiatives around sustainability, climate action, urbanism, public policy, entrepreneurship, and design research. The Anant Fellowship model extends learning beyond conventional degree structures by bringing practitioners and emerging professionals into intensive, challenge-focused programs. The campus extends across approximately 78 acres and includes studios, workshops, laboratories, learning spaces, and facilities intended to support experimentation and collaborative project work. Sustainability is embedded in both curriculum and institutional activity, including work on climate-responsive design and practical responses to community needs. The university's centers and incubation activity connect students and faculty with external partners, entrepreneurs, governments, and professional networks. Since its establishment, Anant National University has expanded from architecture and planning roots into a broader design-led university while retaining a strong emphasis on the built environment and sustainability. Its Ahmedabad location places it within a city known for architecture, design education, entrepreneurship, heritage, and manufacturing, giving students additional context for applied projects, internships, research, and professional engagement. The institution's long-term identity is therefore defined less by a conventional discipline mix and more by using design as a method for solving complex real-world problems.