Central University of Rajasthan

Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ), Ajmer, is a central university established by the Central Universities Act, 2009, in March 2009, fully funded by the Government of India with jurisdiction across the whole state of Rajasthan. It began functioning from Jaipur in 2009, operated from a temporary campus at Shri R.K. Patni Government P.G. College, Kishangarh from May 2010, and moved to its own permanent campus at Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, partially from August 2011 and fully from January 2012.

The university holds NAAC A++ accreditation with a CGPA of 3.54, awarded in its Second Cycle. It ranked 89th in NIRF 2025 University category (score 48.47); it does not appear in the published Overall top 100 for that year.

CURAJ Snapshot

Programmes

CURAJ organises its academic offerings across 12 schools: Architecture; Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy; Commerce and Management; Engineering and Technology; Earth Sciences; Life Sciences; Humanities and Languages; Mathematics, Statistics and Computational Sciences; Social Sciences; Sports Sciences, Yoga and Education; Physical Sciences; and the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, together running undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes across these disciplines.

Admission mechanisms vary by programme type rather than following a single route. Undergraduate and postgraduate admission run through CUET-UG and CUET-PG. The four-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP, B.Sc/B.Ed) uses NCET. M.Tech and M.Plan admission use CCMT. The DBT-funded M.Sc Biotechnology programme uses GAT-B. Ph.D admission runs through the university's own process.

Admissions

For the 2026-27 cycle, CURAJ's own admissions page carries a live notification for CUET-UG-2026 registration, routed through the university's admission portal. Its PG admission cycle for 2026-27 has run through four provisional-merit-list rounds into August 2026, per the university's own General Admission Policy for PG Admission 2026-27. ODL programme admissions and Ph.D registration for 2026-27 are also open. Exact registration fee amounts were not available as extractable text from an official CURAJ page at the time of writing and are not stated here.

Rankings

Central University of Rajasthan ranked 89th in NIRF 2025 University category (score 48.47), confirmed directly against nirfindia.org; it does not appear in the published Overall top 100 for that year. It holds NAAC A++ accreditation, CGPA 3.54, Second Cycle.

Campus

CURAJ's permanent campus spans more than 518 acres at Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, in Ajmer district, Rajasthan. The university moved there in phases, partially from August 2011 and with full functioning from January 2012, after an initial period operating from Jaipur and then from a temporary campus at Shri R.K. Patni Government P.G. College, Kishangarh, from May 2010.

Notable alumni

No independently verifiable, individually sourced notable alumni could be confirmed for this institution at the time of writing. This section is left out rather than populated with unconfirmed names.

Sources

• http://www.curaj.ac.in/sites/default/files/Information%20Handbook%202019.pdf (official, founding, campus history, phased relocation)
• https://curaj.ac.in/group/naac (official, NAAC A++, CGPA 3.54, Second Cycle)
• https://www.curaj.ac.in/schools (official, 12 schools listing)
• https://www.curaj.ac.in/acts/admission-2026-27 (official, 2026-27 admission routes by programme type)
• https://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2025/UniversityRanking.html (NIRF 2025 University rank, checked directly)
• https://prsindia.org/files/bills_acts/acts_parliament/2009/the-central-universities-act,-2009.pdf (Central Universities Act, 2009, official text)