CURAJ has 12 schools, 36 academic departments and one community college covering technology, science, humanities, commerce, management, public policy and social science programs with a strong emphasis on scientific, technological and social education as well as research.

In 2012-13, the university moved to its present location, on Jaipur-Ajmer Expressway (NH-8) at Bandar Sindri village of Ajmer district.

This land was donated by the Government of Rajasthan in 2010, construction started in 2011 and by July 2012 the university had moved to its current location.

The departments are functioning from temporary buildings and expected to move to their permanent places in 2016.

The university has constructed the state-of-the-art permanent buildings for hostels and implemented the concept of rainwater harvesting successfully by creating seven ponds in the campus at different locations and a sewage treatment plant has also been constructed at the periphery whose outlet is used in watering plants.

The buildings are constructed using a fusion of traditional architectural features of Rajasthan with contemporary design elements.

The chhatri and jaali are used in the buildings to give a unique blend of the traditional and modern architecture.

Math Earth, the Economania, Impresario and Myriad Hues are the annual fests of the respective department and student societies of the university.

[22] In 2016, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Mathematics, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room.

[26] In another incident, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Social Works, who hailed from Ladakh, was found hanging in her hostel room on 26 July 2023.

[27][28] In August 2023, a female student accused the security officer of the university of clicking and circulating her photograph without her permission.

Police reached the campus after students protested, and the university ordered an internal investigation.