K. D. University Summary
K.D. University is a private university on the Mathura-Delhi Road in Uttar Pradesh with a strong focus on medical, dental, nursing, paramedical and allied health education. It operates under the Uttar Pradesh Private Universities Act, 2019 as amended and officially began its university academic journey in the 2025–26 session. The sponsoring body is Rajiv Memorial Academic Welfare Society, whose education and healthcare institutions provided the foundation on which the university was created. The university integrates academic programmes with a large clinical environment. Its institutional network includes K.D. Medical College, Hospital and Research Center and K.D. Dental College and Hospital, allowing health-sciences students to study within a setting that combines classrooms, laboratories and patient-care facilities. The university describes a multi-specialty teaching hospital with more than one thousand beds, diagnostic infrastructure and clinical services used for education and training. This integration is central to its identity as a health-focused university rather than a broad general institution. K.D. University's development represents the consolidation of existing medical and dental education under a new statutory university framework. The older dental institution traces its teaching activity to the early 2000s, while the medical college and hospital were already functioning before the university began. After establishment, the university brought medical, dental, nursing and paramedical education into a unified governance system and added university-level research and student services. Its Mathura campus therefore combines an established healthcare-education base with a newer private-university structure intended to support clinical training, professional education and biomedical research. The university's clinical environment gives students direct exposure to a functioning multi-specialty teaching hospital. Its institutional model unifies several health-professions disciplines within one statutory university system. K.D. Dental College and Hospital predates the university and has a long-standing BDS and postgraduate dental-education presence in Mathura.









