It achieved a Deemed University status in June 2000, which meant that the degree certificates show that they are awarded from DDIT.

The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company and Rand Corporation, an American think tank.

Shah-Schulman Centre for Surface Science and Nanotechnology (SSCSSN) was established in April 2008 under as a partnership between Dharmsinh Desai University, government and industry.

SSCSSN-DDU is one of the first such partners from Gujarat to enter into this NSF sponsored International program.

The Centre also has collaborative projects with nearby Universities in these areas as well as overseas Institutions in Sweden, Taiwan and United States.

Centre also offers a Master of Technology course in Surface Science and Nanotechnology.

The R&D Center undertakes real life IT based projects from Industry and Research organizations including Government and provides technical solutions to their problems.

The R&D centre of the university has developed a Portrait Building System which is successfully used at every District Police Headquarters in the Country to arrest criminals.

The ANUVADAKSH An Expert English to Indian Languages Machine Translation System [EILMT] allows translating the text from English to eight Indian languages namely Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Oriya, Gujarati and Bodo.

The title of the project is Development of Indradhanush: an Integrated WordNet for Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Odia, Punjabi and Urdu.

The scope of environmental audit covers i) industrial data collection related to raw material, process, product, by-product and other inputs like water and power, ii) monitoring of environmental management system (air, water and waste water, noise, solid waste and bioassay test) and iii) preparation of audit report as per Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) format.

The additional services extended by the Cell include Environmental Impact Assessment, Total Pollution Load Assessment, Designing and Monitoring of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Evaluation of Environmental Management System etc.

Some of the major clients are Reliance, IPCL, GNFC, GEB, L&T, UltraTech Cement, BASF, Bayer, Rallis India Ltd, Sun Pharma, Cadila Healthcare, Birla, Cellulosic, Cadila Pharma, GAIL, Kanoria chemicals, Wockhardt, Tata Chemicals etc.