Sharnbasva University is the first private university in the entire North Karnataka and uniqueness of the university was the adoption of multi disciplinary approach providing avenues for the students to pursue the courses of their choice professed in the New Education Policy (NEP). The university had adopted this multi disciplinary approach well before the NEP came into force. Another feature of the university was its stress on research activities and extending quality education at affordable cost, which was the benchmark of the university. The university has set itself on the path of emerging one of the centres of excellence and a world class university, which is the dream of our esteemed Chancellor and Visionary Educationist Vidya Bhandari Poojya Dr. Sharnbaswappa Appaji. The Sharnbasva University functions under the Sharnbasveshwar Vidya Vardhak Sangha, which has the proud legacy of providing quality education to the deprived sections of the people in the educationally backward Kalyana Karnataka region for the past more than 100 years. The Sharbasaveshwar Vidya Vardak Sangha, under whose aegis the Sharnbasva University is functioning, has the honor of starting the first school exclusively for the girls way back in 1934 opening the doors of learning to the girls. The legacy of providing optimum importance to the girl education has continued to this day and the Sangha was the first to start engineering college for women ​in entire ​North Karnataka