Maharshi Dayanand University is located at Rohtak and is a public university. It was founded in 1976 and earned the named after the noted saint Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati.
This university is one of the pioneer institutions offering higher education in this region. It offers courses in diverse fields of study in the levels of undergraduate, post graduate and doctorate.
Besides offering courses within the campus, it is also a well known affiliating university that bestows several programs linking various colleges, centers and institutes throughout the region.
However, the colleges in various other districts such as Gurgaon, Rewari, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Mahendergarh, Jhajjar, Rohtak, and Sonepat are in affiliation to this university.
Maharshi Dayanand University was founded through a legislative assembly Act of Haryana with a specific aim of establishing as well as incorporating a teaching as well a supporting affiliating university to be sited at Rohtak.
This was thought and established to encourage the interdisciplinary higher education as well as research offering emphasis on the various life sciences study, besides ecological and environmental sciences.
This university has accomplished a remarkable degree of achievements in its existence of 31 years in its expansion programs, infrastructural development and academic pursuits.
Expansion
Today it functions with 77 academic programs, 13 faculties and 27 post graduate departments. There are various designing and developing courses in diverse disciplines under 66 boards.
The main campus has 2 satellite campuses located at Rewari is offering post graduate programs and the Gurgaon campus is the National Law college.
The affiliating university comprises of 126 colleges and institutions in various disciplines. There are professional institutions at Rohtak comprising of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences featuring a 1000 bed hospital, and the post graduate College of Medicine specializes in 21 disciplines. This University also has a Medical College at Agroha, and at Rohtak a Dental College.
The distance education is offered in this campus and there are professional and regular courses as well.
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