[2] The university offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in wide range of disciplines.

Its campus is called Jnana Sahyadri, which means 'The Western Ghat section of knowledge'.

It has university jurisdiction over malnad districts of Shivamogga and Chikmagaluru, through which the Sahyadri mountain ranges pass.

True to its form and nature the university had adopted Kannada as the administrative and official language.

The academic wedge on the main campus houses the post-graduate departments of studies in English, Political Science, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, MSW, Economics, Sociology, English Language Teaching, Journalism and Mass Communication.

The department of Sanskrit was moved out of Janasahyadri campus in Shankaraghatta village into the Sahyadri College in Shivamogga City due to lack of student strength.

[9] The library offers facilities for reading, borrowing, and reference to the students, teachers and research scholars of all departments.

The library has kept pace with technology by introducing a CD-ROM database and Internet and e-mail facilities.

[11] There is a programme coordinator whose office is presently housed in front of the Sahyadri College, Shivamogga.