Dayananda Sagar University (DSU) is a state private university located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Established under an Act of the Karnataka State Legislature, the university is part of the Dayananda Sagar Institutions, a group of educational establishments operated by the Mahatma Gandhi Vidya Peetha Trust.
| Type | State private university |
|---|---|
| Location | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Parent body | Mahatma Gandhi Vidya Peetha Trust |
| Affiliation | Dayananda Sagar Institutions |
| Country | India |
The university takes its name from Dayananda Sagar, after whom the wider group of educational institutions in Bengaluru is also named. The Dayananda Sagar Institutions, established earlier as a cluster of colleges offering programmes in engineering, medicine, dental sciences, business administration, and allied fields, served as the foundation upon which the university was constituted.
Dayananda Sagar University was created to bring several disciplines under a unified academic framework with the autonomy that the private university structure under Karnataka state law permits. As a state private university, it is empowered to design its own curricula, conduct examinations, and award its own degrees.
The university organises its academic activities through schools dedicated to specific disciplines. Programmes are offered at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels across fields such as:
The university operates from a campus in the Bengaluru Urban district of Karnataka. Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka and a major centre of higher education and information technology in India, hosts a number of universities and research institutions, of which DSU is one.
As one of several private universities established in Karnataka in the years following the state's enabling legislation for private universities, Dayananda Sagar University is part of the broader expansion of higher education capacity in southern India. It contributes to Bengaluru's profile as a hub for technical and professional education.