Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya is a central university in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Formerly known as Guru Ghasidas University (GGU), established by an Act of the State Legislative Assembly, it was formally inaugurated on 16 June 1983.

Guru Ghasidas University campus spread over an area of 700 acres (2.8 km2), five kilometres from the main Bilaspur town.

The Central Library of Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya comprises more than 105,000 books, 3,950 back volumes of journals and 1,100 Ph.D.

[10] The university has a sports complex with facilities for various indoor and outdoor games such as Badminton, Kabaddi, Volleyball, Basketball, Football, Cricket, and Athletics etc.

The university also organizes inter-college and inter-University sports competitions and encourages students to participate in national and international events.

[11] The university has a cafeteria near the Administrative Building that provides snacks, tea, coffee, cold drinks, etc.

[16][17][18] This is accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Board of Research in Nuclear Science, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and the university, which is for setting a Special Scientific Centre in the campus with the name "National Centre for Accelerator-based Research"(in short NCAR).

[19] This inter-disciplinary research facility is related to atomic energy, it would help to create skilled manpower required for nuclear plants.