Cluster University of Srinagar is a state public university in Jammu and Kashmir established in 2016 under the Srinagar and Jammu Cluster Universities Act. It was created by pooling the academic and physical resources of five longstanding colleges in Srinagar: Amar Singh College, Sri Pratap College, Government College for Women at M.A. Road, Government Degree College at Bemina, and Government College of Education. The cluster-university concept was introduced to strengthen established colleges and reduce pressure on large affiliating universities by creating a shared university system from institutions located in close proximity. Infrastructure development for the model was supported through the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan framework. Cluster University of Srinagar functions as the degree-awarding university for programmes under its constituent colleges and coordinates academic regulations, curricula, admissions, examinations and research development. Its structure creates schools covering sciences, humanities and liberal arts, social sciences, commerce and management, engineering and technology, and teacher education, drawing on the specialized traditions of the five campuses. The university’s integrated-programme model was an important feature of its early academic design, allowing students to enter longer pathways that connect undergraduate and postgraduate study. Existing students who had entered the constituent colleges before the transition remained under their previous University of Kashmir arrangements, while new cohorts came under the cluster system. This phased change preserved academic continuity during institutional restructuring. The university’s mission emphasizes teaching, research, skill development and employability while making more efficient use of existing public-college infrastructure. Its identity is therefore distinctly multi-campus: rather than concentrating all departments on one site, it organizes complementary colleges across Srinagar as a single university. The result is a public higher-education model that combines the heritage of older colleges with shared university governance and interdisciplinary academic development. Each constituent college contributes disciplinary strengths, allowing shared academic schools while preserving the identities of the participating institutions.