Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University

Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University Ajmer is a prominent affiliating university in the state of Rajasthan. Established on August 1, 1987, after the bifurcation of the University of Rajasthan, the University was positioned as a University for Colleges.

Apart from being an affiliating university, the University was supposed to support teaching and research in its affiliated colleges. Later, as per the requirement of UGC, teaching departments were created at the campus in March 1990, and teaching was introduced during academic session 1991-92 with some nonconventional and professional postgraduate courses. Later in the year 2000, the teaching of conventional postgraduate programs was introduced on the campus, with specializations that were not available in colleges of the city of Ajmer.