Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University (MDSU) Ajmer was established in 1 August 1987, it  is affiliating university in the state of Rajasthan and accredited by NAAC in the year 2017 with B++ grade. 

The university supports teaching and research in its affiliated colleges.  In March 1990 university built a campus  and started  teaching in 1991-1992 with Post Graduate courses. In the year 2000, specializations of postgraduate programs was introduced on the campus of Ajmer.

Programmes

Currently, university offers 147 programs of learning including 1 Certificate, 7 Diploma, 1  Advanced Diploma, 23 graduate degree, 2 PG Certificate, 15 PG Diploma, 3 Advanced PG  Diploma, 51 PG degree, 14 M. Phil. and 30 Ph.D. programs. At the teaching departments of the University campus 63 academic programs viz. 11 Ph.D., 7 M. Phil., 30 postgraduate degrees, 3 Advanced PG Diploma, 6 PG Diploma, 2 PG Certificate, 2 graduate degrees, 1 diploma and 1 certificate are being offered at currently. 

The university provides academic leadership to 281+ colleges of the region covering 4 Districts. On the campus there are 20 teaching departments and 6 centers. The University has conducted examination of 3, 05,600 students for various courses during the session 2016-17. It is committed to provide quality education in all dimensions of Higher Education to all sections of the society through teaching, learning, research and extension as per the need at regional and global level.  For an urge to boost quality in education, the University was accredited by NAAC in the year 2017 with B++ grade. 

Accreditation

The National Accreditation and Assessment Council has accredited Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University a B++ rating.

Departments

There are 24 teaching departments: history, political science and public administration, economics, botany, zoology, pure and applied chemistry, environmental studies, remote sensing and geoInformatics, foods and nutrition, microbiology, computer applications, population studies, commerce and management studies, law, education, physical education, yoga and human consciousness, entrepreneurship & small business management, strategic studies and information sciences.

Department Name

Department of Commerce

Department of Education

Department of Library and Information Sciences

Department of Law

Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Department of Management Studies

Captain Durga Prasad Choudhary Department of Journalism & Mass Communication

Department of Botany

Department of Computer Science

Department of Environmental Sciences
Department of Food Science and Nutrition

Department of Microbiology

Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Department of Geoinformatics and remote sensing

Department of Zoology

Department of Economics

Department of Hindi

Department of History

Department of Political Science

Department of Population Studies

Department of Vedic Vangmaya

Department of Yogic Sciences & Human Consciousness