Saurashtra University

Key Highlights

• Public state and affiliating university headquartered in Rajkot
• Established on 23 May 1967 under Gujarat state legislation
• Actively publishing admissions and academic notices for 2026–27
• Campus departments coexist with a wider network of affiliated colleges

Student Life & Environment

Campus life is supported by separate residential arrangements and a range of shared facilities. The university describes four principal men’s hostel options with different room formats, from single rooms to double and triple occupancy. Its women’s accommodation page lists Ganga, Saraswati, Narmada, Yamuna, and Kaveri hostels, with Wi-Fi, drinking-water systems, security, indoor recreation, reading space, and hostel-organized celebrations. International students have a separate hostel facility offering furnished twin-sharing rooms, common space, kitchen access, laundry, Wi-Fi, CCTV, and security. Accommodation remains subject to application, allocation, availability, and the applicable hostel rules. The broader campus facilities directory includes a central library, health center, computer center, day care, international student cell, skill-development provision, placement services, women’s studies facilities, and sports infrastructure. The Sardar Patel Sports Complex lists athletics, football, cricket, gymnastics, basketball, tennis, hockey, swimming, shooting, volleyball, kabaddi, kho-kho, handball, fitness, and indoor-sports facilities. Students can also use the Career Counselling and Development Centre for academic and career guidance and preparation for competitive examinations. Anti-ragging, grievance-redressal, and internal complaints structures are linked from the university website. Prospective residents should obtain the current 2026–27 hostel notice and fee schedule before making plans, as descriptive facility pages do not guarantee a room or confirm that every listed amenity is continuously available.

Location & Surroundings

Saurashtra University’s main campus is on University Road in Rajkot, Gujarat, with the official address Rajkot 360005. Its own accreditation filing confirms that the university functions from its campus in the city. This is the location prospective students should use when evaluating university-department programs, central facilities, and campus housing. Because Saurashtra University is also an affiliating institution, the Rajkot campus address does not describe every student’s study location. A program delivered by an affiliated college may be based elsewhere and may have different transport, housing, library, and recreational arrangements. Applicants should verify the institution name and teaching site shown on their admission offer before arranging accommodation or commuting. The campus brings academic departments together with hostels, the central library, sports facilities, health services, banking and ATM access, and administrative offices. International applicants can contact the International Student Cell on the Rajkot campus. The official sources reviewed do not provide a sufficiently current, comprehensive guide to local rents, commute times, public transport, or off-campus living costs, so those practical details should be checked independently against the exact teaching location.

Costs & Career Outcomes

No complete, institution-wide 2026–27 tuition schedule was verified. Fees vary by program, department, funding category, and whether study takes place in a university department, a self-financed unit, or an affiliated college. The university’s GCAS page confirms that a fee-clarification circular was issued for 2026–27, and individual departments also publish course-specific fee notices. Students should obtain the exact current fee statement for their course and include examination, laboratory, registration, refundable deposit, and other compulsory charges when budgeting. The International Student Cell publishes academic and hostel fee pages, but the academic schedule is old and expressly subject to revision. It should not be used as a current tuition quotation. Its hostel page displays INR 20,000 per academic year for a twin-sharing block and says that the amount may be revised; prospective international residents should request written confirmation for 2026–27. Current domestic hostel charges were not verified. Career support is available through both the Training and Placement Cell and the Career Counselling and Development Centre. The placement cell describes campus interviews, job fairs, résumé-review sessions, interview preparation, and links with employers across several sectors. The counseling center focuses on career guidance, higher-study decisions, and preparation for competitive and public-sector examinations. These services are useful resources but do not guarantee placement. No sufficiently current, independently verifiable graduate salary, placement-rate, or employer-outcome dataset was found, so applicants should request recent program-level outcomes directly from their department.