Maharishi Dayanand University is a state administered university located on the fringes of Rohtak in the northern state of India, Haryana. It is located in at a distance of 70 kilometers in the northwest of Delhi on the NH 10. It was established through an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Haryana in 1976.

The University was named after the great social reformer and founder of Arya Samaj, Maharshi Dayanand. The University is a premier institution of higher education in Rohtak as well as in Haryana. It offers courses in various disciplines at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. The University is a teaching cum affiliating institution. The colleges of eight districts are affiliated to the University. They are Bhiwani, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Mahendergarh, Rewari, Rohtak, and Sonepat.

Today, the university operates with thirteen faculties, twenty-seven postgraduate departments and runs seventy-seven academic programmes on the campus. In the university there are sixty-six Boards of Studies, for the greater intention of designing and developing courses in various fields. Along with the main campus there are two satellite campuses. The Regional Center which conducts post graduate programmes at Rewari and the National Law College at Gurgaon. In the main campus there is a Directorate of Distance Education, which conducts twenty-four professional and regular courses. Being an affiliating University, the University has one hundred and twenty six colleges in its domain, which includes engineering colleges, management institutes, and pharmacy colleges.

Some of the well-known institutes affiliated to the University are Post-Graduate Medical Research Institute and Dental College, Rohtak; Medical College, Agroha; State College of Engineering, Murthal; Technological Institute of Textiles, Bhiwani.

In its glorious years of existence, the University has made remarkable progress in academics, research programmes, infrastructural amenities.