The Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner has come into existence in a terrain exhibiting several ecological constants not found, on any comparable scale, in the rest of India or, even, in the rest of the world which contains several large deserts but not the type of life-vibrant arid lands as the Thar desert on whose northern-east periphery the Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner is locat
ed. After the assent of the Honourable Governor of Rajasthan University of Bikaner has been established under the Bikaner University Act, 2003 which was notified in the Rajasthan Gazzette on June 7, 2003. University, Ajmer and the affiliation of 69 colleges located in the districts of Churu, Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh and Bikaner was shifted to this University. As a result, 92,444 students were enrolled and examined in various Faculties by the University in 2004 for Bachelor and Master Degrees and some diploma courses. Bikaner University, Bikaner has been renamed as Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner vide Gazette notification No. the Government of Rajasthan on 2nd day of October, 2008.
