The state government of the state of Himachal Pradesh of the republic of India passed the Chitkara University Act under which the Chitkara University was established. The recognition from UGC came under the UGC Act of 1956. Since then, the Chitkara University has been on its mission of imparting quality education. Under its vision and mission that the university so holds, the university aims to impart quality undergraduate and post graduate knowledge to as to contribute an important share towards the development of society and individuals.

This university is located on a huge campus of about the land of 13 acres in the city of Barotiwala; district Solan in the state of Himachal Pradesh. This campus of the university is situated at a distance of about 32kms from the union territory of Chandigarh. The place can be easily reached via air, road or rail.

Under this university in Himachal Pradesh it has various institutions that help to foster the knowledge spreading aim, these are:

• School of Engineering and technology: this venture imparts the engineering degrees both under graduate and posts graduate domains in trades like computer science, electronics and telecommunication and civil.

• Chitkara Business School: started at the university in the year 2008 with the first pass out batch of May 2010. The eligible ones have been made a part of the corporate world while the next batch is ready for their training periods.

• School of Health Sciences: another area of knowledge that Chitkara University boasts in her cap. It has collaboration with names like Fortis Healthcare Services.

• School of Mass Communication: serving out to the industry of journalism and media may it be electronic or paper, this school aims to in the list of top 10 by 2013.

• Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture: this offers courses for the architecture domain. Being a part of university it surely carries the legacy forward.

• School of Pharmaceutical Sciences: this venture is basically meant for the post graduate studies in the field of Pharmacy.

The candidates willing to join in are required to fill in the application form of the university. The courses too have their time for starting the batches. Usually the merit rankings of central exams are taken into account while short listing e.g. the ranks obtained in the exam of AIEEE are referred for the admissions to engineering programs.