BIDAR UNIVERSITY, KARNATAKA was established by an Act of UGC & State Legislature 2(f) in 2000 , to promote general education, regular education, technical education, management education and pharmaceutical education in the state and all over India at degree level and above in regular mode , distance mode and correspondence mode. It was established as Bidar University by State Government.. The University has the mandate to set up centres of excellence in emerging technologies and for promoting training, research and development in these areas. The University has undertaken the task of training students to help in the development of skilled manpower in this sector in the country in general and in the state in particular. With this goal in mind, the university is promoting a number of courses in different streams in regular as well as distance education programmes. At present University have 106 AICTE and 47 UGC institutes affiliated with it.