FLAME University is a state private university in Pune, Maharashtra, built around the philosophy of liberal education. The university was established through the FLAME University Act 2014, enacted as Maharashtra Act No. II of 2015, and is sponsored by the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education Society. It is also recognized as a Jain minority institution. FLAME's academic identity differs from conventional single-stream professional universities because it intentionally connects multiple fields of knowledge. The curriculum brings together liberal arts, social sciences, business, communication, design, computing, data science, natural sciences, physical sciences and fine and performing arts. Students are encouraged to combine disciplines, build major-minor pathways and develop communication, quantitative, analytical, creative and problem-solving skills. Experiential learning, research, self-reflection and the freedom to explore different academic perspectives are central to the institution's stated educational philosophy. FLAME's residential campus at Lavale near Pune provides classrooms, studios, laboratories, libraries, performance and sports spaces within a green campus environment. The university has also developed Centres of Excellence and research initiatives that extend academic work beyond formal degree programmes. Its Pune location gives students access to one of India's most active higher-education, cultural, technology and business ecosystems. The university's development has been closely associated with the growth of liberal education in India. Rather than organizing students into rigidly separated academic silos, FLAME emphasizes connections among disciplines and treats undergraduate education as a platform for broad intellectual development before specialization. This interdisciplinary structure is reinforced by postgraduate and doctoral programmes in selected areas, creating continuity from broad foundational learning into advanced study and research. FLAME therefore combines a specialized educational philosophy with the institutional breadth of a modern private university. Its residential Pune campus reinforces that model through interdisciplinary majors, experiential learning, research centres and sustained faculty-student interaction. Lavale anchors that experience.