The university was established on 23 May 1964 and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the President of India, laid the foundation stone of the campus on 11 December 1964.

The university started its post-graduate teaching and research from the session 1966–67 with the establishment of Schools of Studies (SOS) in Botany and Zoology.

The School of Studies in Computer Science, Engineering & Applications started from the session 1995–96 and running MCA and BCA courses.

It was started by the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi and has many projects in collaboration with CSIR, ICMR, DBT, DST, DRDO and UGC labs and R&D.

The university established a centre of foreign language in 1986, which offers diploma and certificate courses in English, French, German and Russian.