Established in 2007, it is one of the seven National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) under India's Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

[2][3] The institution started functioning from November 2007 and was inaugurated by former union Minister Sri Ram Vilas Paswan and the Director Dr. Pradeep Das, RMRIMS-Patna.

Till October, 2018 the institute was under the mentorship of RMRIMS-Patna and Dr. Pradeep Das was the Project Director of NIPER-Hajipur.

Areas of Research Every year in June and July NIPER conducts national level entrance examinations for admissions to its M.S.(Pharm)/M.

Till date 382 PG students have received their degree from NIPER-Hajipur Most of them have been placed in pharma industries, while some are pursuing higher studies in various universities/ institutions across the globe.

NIPER Hajipur has so far published 79 research papers in high impact, peer reviewed journals.

NIPER-Hajipur has academic collaboration with many Institutes like RMRIMS-Patna, IIT-Patna, CDRI-Lucknow, NIT-Patna Mahavir Cancer Sansthan-Patna, IGIMS-Patna, NIPER-Guwahati, NIPER-Kolkata etc.