The University has sixty years of heritage and is the first Ayurveda University throughout the world. It is established with well set vision and objectives and is trying to enhance the positive impact on lives and community by providing needful services.
The admirable rate of applications receive for admissions in different courses itself speaks out the popularity and demand that the university has in the current scenario.
A huge flow of patients (around 1500/day) also reveal attraction and reputation of the services being provided in the field of healthcare.
More than 35 different types of programs including Yoga and Naturopathy are being offered by the university and all are running in the campus successfully.
The university is the first to provide full time BAMS course for eligible foreign students.
International Centre for Ayurveda Studies exclusively coordinates issues related with the foreign students.
The University is engaged in various activities related with the education, research and attained unique achievements. These achievements have been recognized recently by Medscape India National Award for the category of Excellence in Ayurveda.
The affiliated institutes have an honour of designations like WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine (Ayurveda) National Pharmacovigilance Resource Centre for Ayurveda, Siddha & Unani drugs
The University has started University School of Continuing Education with a goal of disseminating knowledge in the domains of practitioners, common population and students.
University has a well established and RFID managed Library with a collection of more than 30,000 books on various subjects. The library also has a huge collection of manuscripts in different languages that are being preserved through digitization.
Indian Institute of Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Sciences (IIAPS) of the University is the only ISO 9001-2008 certified Ayurved Pharmacy College in India. This institute is a role model and bench-marking for other Pharmacy Institutes in this country.
IPGT & RA publishes AYU journal that is PubMed included peer reviewed research journal of Ayurveda.
Computer based learning program Ayurveda e-learning has been designed under the sponsorship of Ministry of AYUSH to sensitize the modern medical scholars who wish to study Ayurveda.University Conducts Satellite OPDs at peripheral areas of Jamnagar. This is the only Ayurveda organization that runs specialized OPDs at all the three defense organizations.
Independent and well established research laboratories and animal houses are the strength of the university. All the researches pass through the institutional ethical bodies for experimental and clinical studies.
Independent Pharmacy that manufactures drugs following classical guidelines is the big strength of the university.
Supportive and encouraging atmosphere for submitting research proposals and conducting industry sponsored and intra-mural researches. Dept. of Projects and TRC coordinates and supervises the researches.