The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is a university in the city of Vadodara, (Baroda) in the state of Gujarat, India. It is a teaching and residential university as well as the only university in Gujarat whose medium of instruction is English for all courses.

The university has its genesis in the Baroda College established in 1881 by Baroda State. The main building which houses the faculty of Arts was planned by Robert Fellowes Chisholm (1840–1915) in Indo-Saracenic architecture style and is a fusion of Indian and Byzantine arches and domes in brick and polychromed stone. The central dome on the convocation hall was modeled after the great dome of the Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur.

Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda (1908–1968) (the last Maharaja of the erstwhile Baroda State) founded the university in the year 1949 on the wishes of his grandfather, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III (1863–1939), and settled the "Sir Sayajirao Diamond Jubilee and Memorial Trust" which exists till date, serving to the education and other needs of the people of the former Baroda State. It has its beginning in the Baroda College of Science established in 1881.

The Vice-Chancellors of the university are appointed for three years period.

Smt. Hansa Mehta: 1949-1958
Dr. Jyotindra Mehta: 1958-1964
Dr. C. S. Patel: 1964-1970
Dr. N. K. Vakil: 1970-1974
Prof. P. J. Madan: 1981-1984
Lord Bhikhu Parekh: 1981-1984
Prof. M. N. Desai: 1985-1987
Prof. R. C. Patel: 1988-1990
Prof. V. C. Shah: 1990-1993
Prof. Suresh Dalal: 1993-1994
Ms. Padma Ramachandran: 1995-1998
Dr. Anil Kane: 1998-2001
Prof. K. C. Upadhyaya: 2002-2005
Dr. Manoj Soni: 2005-2008
Prof. Ramesh Goyal: 2008-2011
Prof. Yogesh Singh: 2011-2014
Prof. Parimal Vyas: (2014) (Currently In-charge Vice-Chancellor)

Departments
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Department of Anthropology
Department of Arabic
Department of Canadian Studies
Department of Economics
Department of English (The oldest in Gujarat)
Department of French
Department of Geography
Department of German
Department of Gujarati
Department of Hindi
Department of History
Department of International Relation
Department of Library & Information Science
Department of Linguistics
Department of Marathi
Department of Persian
Department of Philosophy
Department of Political Science
Department of Pali
Department of Prakrit
Department of Russian
Department of Sanskrit
Department of Sindhi
Department of Sociology
Department of Traditional Sanskrit Studies
Department of Urdu

Address:

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Pratapgunj,
Vadodara,
Gujarat 390002

0265 279 5555