Spicer Adventist University is a state private university in Pune, Maharashtra, with a history that reaches back almost a century before it received university status in 2014. Its institutional lineage began in 1915 with the South India Training School in Coimbatore, created to prepare students for education, ministry and service within the Seventh-day Adventist tradition. The school moved to Bangalore in the late 1910s and later to Krishnarajapuram, where its academic work expanded. In 1937 the institution was reorganized as a coeducational junior college, and the college section moved to Pune in 1942. It became Spicer Missionary College in 1943 and was renamed Spicer Memorial College in 1955, honoring Adventist missionary William A. Spicer. Academic development continued through senior-college curricula, graduate-level links and relationships with external universities. The modern university was created under Maharashtra legislation in 2014 and was inaugurated on 28 August that year. Spicer Adventist University now offers education across arts and social sciences, commerce and business, sciences, education, performing arts and related disciplines while retaining a faith-based institutional character. Its Pune campus combines classrooms, laboratories, library resources, residential facilities, worship spaces, sports and cultural activities. The university emphasizes holistic education that links academic study with ethics, service, community life and personal development. The institution celebrated its centenary in 2015, connecting the new university era with an educational lineage that began in 1915. Its long history of movement from southern India to Pune distinguishes it from most newer private universities in Maharashtra. SPICER ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY operates within Maharashtra's private higher-education system and serves learners from the Pune region as well as other parts of India. The Pune setting also shapes the professional, cultural and community networks available around the university. Within its state, the institution adds a distinct private higher-education option with its own academic and regional emphasis.