[6] It was established as Raksha Shakti University in 2009 by the Government of Gujarat, lead by the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

The main campus of RRU is located northeast of Ahmedabad, in a village named Lavad, near Dahegam in Gandhinagar district.

Our primary objective is to facilitate a three-way engagement between academia, industry, and the government for innovation, incubation, and technology acceleration in the security space.

Effectively, we are an aggregator of solution providers who work within the problem space with an emphasis on youth engagement and "Atmanirbhar Bharat".

The university conducts researches within its academic programmes under all the schools to study & explore semi-structured & unstructured problems.

The university works towards skilling aspirants for security forces,[24] upskilling the in-service personnel, and re-skilling the ex-servicemen and women.

The union government introduced a bill to upgrade the Gujarat-based Raksha Shakti University as an institution of national importance.

G Kishan Reddy, Union Minister of State for Home, introduced the Rashtriya Raksha University Bill, 2020.

[30][31][32] Raksha Shakti University had signed an MoU with Israel based ‘HackerU’ for its course of PG Diploma in Cyber Forensics since 2017–18.

[33] Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation awarded the Merit trophy to Raksha Shakti University at the 14th National Youth Parliament Competition, 2017–18.

[34] Forensic psychologist Reena Sharma while pursuing her Ph.D. from RRU opted for the positive criminology route and assessed violent behaviour of 110 prison inmates convicted under heinous offenses like murder, rape, etc.

[citation needed] Rashtriya Raksha University is set to define a training module for commandos of Special Protection Group.