The ICFAI University, Dehradun

The ICFAI University, Dehradun, officially the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University, Dehradun, is a private state university in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, established in 2003 under the ICFAI University Act, 2003. It operates as a non-affiliating, multi-disciplinary institution sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India educational society. The university comprises five constituent schools: ICFAI Business School, ICFAI Law School, ICFAI Tech School, ICFAI Education School, and ICFAI School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across management, law, engineering, education, and pharmacy. Its campus spans 37 acres in the Selaqui industrial corridor, Central Hope Town, with 256,500 square feet of built-up space accommodating up to 3,000 students, including laboratories, a moot courtroom, and a central library. The university has been ranked 44th globally by WURI (2020), 478th in Southern Asia by QS (2026), within the 1501+ band by THE Impact Rankings (2025), and 17th among India's top private universities by IIRF (2026). It also hosts the Centre for AI and Machine Learning (CAIML), a research hub focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science applications across sectors like healthcare, agriculture, defense, and sustainability.