Bharati Vidyapeeth, the parent body of Bharati Vidyapeeth University is one of the largest leading educational organizations in India having under its one of the largest leading educational organizations in India having under its umbrella more than 140 educational units of various kinds. Bharati Vidyapeeth has been admitted by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) as its permanent member. It is also a member of The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), UK. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in appreciation of the high level of academic performance of the institutions and their excellent infrastructure has awarded the most prestigious ‘A’ grade to all its constituent units under the University.

Bharati Vidyapeeth was established in1964 by Dr. Patangrao Kadam, with an objective to providing education which can offer to bring about the social transformation, so very aptly coined “Social Transformation through Dynamic Education” as the official motto of Bharati Vidyapeeth. The Vidyapeeth is one of the leading national level educational organizations.

Among the educational institutions which Bharati Vidyapeeth runs, 55 institutions are of higher education including professional education. Bharati Vidyapeeth conducts courses almost in all disciplines of knowledge including Medicines, Dentistry, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Nursing, Engineering, Pharmacy, Management, Law, Arts, Social Sciences, Sciences, Computer Sciences, Information Technology, Commerce, Hotel Management, & Catering Technology, Architecture, Fine Arts and the like.

Since Bharati Vidyapeeth is committed not only to the dissemination of knowledge but to generate new knowledge, it has established quite a few research institutes in the areas of Medicine and Related Sciences, Information Technology and Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Science and Applied Chemistry, Environment Science and Social Sciences.
Bharati Vidyapeeth has its campuses in New Delhi, the capital of India and at Pune, Navi Mumbai, Karad, Sangli, Kolhapur, Solapur, Jawahar and at a few other places in Maharastra.