Patna University is a state university in Patna, Bihar, established in 1917 and the seventh oldest university in India.
Patna University is a state university in Patna, Bihar, established in 1917 and the seventh oldest university in India. For its first three decades it was an affiliating and examining body; on 2 January 1952 it became a teaching and residential university covering metropolitan Patna. Its buildings stand on the bank of the Ganges on Ashok Rajpath, with a second campus at Saidpur.