Magadh University

The university was initially established under Magadh University Act 1961 (Later Bihar State University Act,1976) by Satyendra Narayan Sinha, an educationist and the then Education Minister of Bihar in 1962. K. K. Dutta, a renowned historian, was the founder vice-chancellor. It started functioning on 2 March 1962 with two constituent colleges, 32 affiliated colleges and seven postgraduate departments.