The university, with a campus spread over 853 acres (345 ha), is named in honour of Shivaji I.

Yashwantrao Chavan and Balasaheb Desai took the lead in establishing this university.

Madhyamvidya and Media Spectrum[4] are private distribution newspapers published by M.A.

The library has over 3.1 lakhs printed documents and it subscribes to over 298 national and international journals.

It has established contacts with universities, national and international organizations libraries for inter-library loans.