The University of Kota was established in the year 2003 by the Government of Rajasthan through &lsquoThe University of Kota Act, 2003&rsquo and notified vide State Government Gazzette No. F.2(12)/Vidhi-2/2003 dated7th June 2003. The University came into existence through enactment of Government of Rajasthan vide order No. F.21(2)Edu-4/2003 dated September 9,2003 under the provision of section -4(1) of &lsquoThe University of Kota Act,2003.
University of KotaThe University has been included in the list of Universities maintained by the UGC Act, 1956 under the vide notification No. F.9-23/2003(CPP-I) dated 23rd February 2004 and finally received Central Assistance in terms of rules framed under section 12(B) of the UGC Act, 1956 as per Decision of Commission (item No.5.17) dated 22nd October 2012.
Presently, around 173 colleges with approximately 2,25,000 students of six districts of the State, namely, Kota, Bundi, Jhalawar, Baran, Karauli, and sawai madhopur are under the territorial jurisdiction of the University. The University has six faculties, namely, Arts, Commerce and Management, Education, LAW, Science and Social Science. Various Academic Programmes are being at run the campus and in the affiliated colleges of the University. The courses namely, MBA,MIB,MCA,MSW,LLM,MPed,MCom (Accounting & Finance), Integrated BSc-MSc (Physics), MSc (Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Physics-energy, Wildlife Life, and Life Science), MSc Tech(Physics-energy Studies), MA/MSc (Geography), MA (Sociology,Heritage, Tourism, Museuology, & Archaeology), MLIS(Library& Information Science), MPhil (Chemistry, Physiscs, Commerce, Geography,History, Political Science, Sociology and Library & Information Science),PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS, and PhD (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Zoology, Botany, Home Science, Accountancy & Business Statistics, Business Administration/Management, Economic Administration & Financial Management, LAW, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, History, Music, Urdu, Drawing & Painting, Public Administration, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Geography, Education, Library &Information Science, etc.) are being run in the University campus.