Davangere University is one of the youngest State Universities located in central Karnataka. It comes under Davangere and Chitradurga jurisdiction and is headquartered at Davangere.  Earlier, Davangere was part of Chitradurga District and got declared as district headquarters on 15th August 1997 and is emerging as an important educational centre besides being a well-known commercial and industrial town in Karnataka. Davangere University prior to its establishment functioned as a Post-Graduate (PG) Centre of the University of Mysore from 1979 to 1987 and later, with the establishment of Kuvempu University in 1987, functioned as its P.G. Centre up to 2009.