The Congress govt returned to power in December 2018 and a new university for journalism and mass communication — HJU — was constituted through the State Legislature's Act No.

[4] Following the 2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election and the rise of the Vasundhara Raje administration, a cabinet sub-committee recommended the closure HJUJ as well as two other institutes, Rajiv Gandhi Tribal University (RGTU) and Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University.

[3] In July 2015 the new administration renamed and moved RGTU[5] and stopped the admission process for the following year in HJUJ[6] redirecting students to the journalism department in Rajasthan University.

[1] Following the 2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election and the rise of the Third Ashok Gehlot ministry in late 2018, the cabinet decided to open a journalism university afresh under the similar name.

[17] The university offers three-year undergraduate (UG) programme granting a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication degree (BA-JMC), Master of Arts degrees (MA-JMC) in Media Studies, Electronic Media, Development Communication, Advertising & Public Relations and New Media, PG Diploma programmes in Desktop Publishing, Photography, Broadcast Journalism, Public Health and Mass Communication and PhD programme.