Deemed University is a status of autonomy granted to high performing institutes and departments of various universities in India. It is granted by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. The UGC began in 1956 after Indian parliament passed the University Grants Commission Act "to make provision for the co-ordination and determination of standards in Universities and for that purpose, to establish a University Grants Commission." The deemed university status enables not just full autonomy in setting course work and syllabus of those institutes and research centers, but also allows it to set its own guidelines for the admissions, fees, and instructions to the students.

List of Institutions which have been declared as Deemed to be Universities (As on 23rd June, 2008) under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956 by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, along with their MHRD/UGC approved Off-Campus(s)/ Institution(s) under Ambit/Off-Shore Campus(s)

ANDHRA PRADESH  

1. Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM)

2. International Institute of Information Technology

3. Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth

4. Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

5. ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education

6. Vignan's Foundation of Science, Technology & Research

7. Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

8. North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology

BIHAR

9. Bihar Yoga Bharati

10. Nava Nalanda Mahavihara

CHANDIGARH

11. Punjab Engineering College

DELHI

12. Indian Agricultural Research Institute

13. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

14. Indian Law Institute

15. Jamia Hamdard

16. National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Musicology, National Museum

17. National School of Drama, Bahawalpur House

18. National University of Educational Planning & Administration

19. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthana

20. School of Planning & Architecture

21. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapith

22. TERI School of Advanced Studies

GUJARAT

23. Gujarat Vidyapith

24. Sumandeep Vidyapeeth