The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda () is a university in the city of Vadodara, in Gujarat state, India. Originally known as the Baroda College of Science established 1881.

History of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda:
The university has its origins in the Baroda College established in 1881 by Baroda State.
The main building which houses the faculty of Arts was designed by Robert Fellowes Chisholm (1840–1915)

Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda (1908–1968) (the last Maharaja of the erstwhile Baroda State) founded the university in 1949 on the wishes of his grandfather, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III (1863–1939),


About the university :

Aluminis :
Vinoba Bhave, Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights; "National Teacher of India", spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, biologist and winner of 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dadasaheb Phalke, the Father of Indian cinema
Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of Universal Serial Bus for Intel
I. G. Patel, the fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Sam Pitroda, inventor, entrepreneur and policy-maker
Vishal Sikka, CTO and Executive Board member of SAP AG
Vijay P. Bhatkar, Indian scientist
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British businessman
Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia, former Director of IIM Ahmedabad


University song :

अमे वडोदराना विद्यापीठनां सपना सारवनारा

अमे ज्योत जलावी सृष्टि नवली सहसा सर्जनहारा

अमे गगनकुसुम कर धरनारा

अमे मगन मगन थई फरनारा

अगनबाथ अमे भरनारा

अमे दैन्यतिमिर ने हरनारा

श्री सयाजी विद्यापीठना ज्ञानदीपने धरनारा

सत्यं शिवं सुन्दरम् नो मंत्र अनंतर भणनारा

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

Contact details :
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Address: Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu 627012
Phone: 0462 232 2970