Maharishi Dayanand University
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| Motto | Vidya Vindate Amritam (Sanskrit) |
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Motto in English
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"Knowledge is Immortal" |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1976 |
| Chancellor | Governor of Haryana |
| Provost | Dr. Jitender Kumar, Registrar |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Bijender Kumar Punia |
| Students | More than 170,000 |
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Rohtak, Haryana, India 28°54′00″N 76°34′12″E / 28.90000°N 76.57000°E |
| Campus | Urban, 665.4 acres (2.7 km2) |
| Accreditation | AICTE, NAAC |
| Colours | Fire Brick, White and Lime Green |
| Athletics | Wrestling, Gymnastics, Squash, Swimming and Boxing |
| Affiliations | UGC, BCI, AICTE |
| Website | www |
Maharshi Dayanand University is a university in Rohtak, Haryana, India. It is accredited with an 'A' grade by NAAC. Established in 1976 and named after the saint Dayananda Saraswati, the university offers courses in a number of fields of study at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. Besides offering courses on campus, it is a collegiate university which provides programs through colleges, institutes and centers throughout the region. The university shares a campus with IIM Rohtak.
The university was established as Rohtak University in 1976 following the passing of Act No. 25 of 1975 of the Haryana Legislative Assembly (voted on in 1976), with the objective of promoting interdisciplinary higher education and research in the fields of environmental, ecological and life sciences. It was renamed Maharshi Dayanand University in 1977 after the visionary and social reformer, Maharshi Dayanand. It had a unitary and residential character in its nascent stage but became an affiliating university in November 1978. The university secured the recognition of the University Grants Commission in February 1983.
From its original objective of studies in the life sciences, the university has grown to 13 faculties, with 27 postgraduate departments and 77 academic programs on campus. There are 66 boards of studies for developing and designing courses. In addition to the main campus, the university has a satellite campus at the University Institute of Law & Management Studies at Gurgaon.
A former satellite campus, the Indira Gandhi Post Graduate Regional Center in Rewari, was awarded university status on its own (as Indira Gandhi University) in April 2013. The university was given an "A" rating by NAAC in August 2013 and ranked 44 by the national government's Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2016.
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