An idea of 'Symbiosis' was conceived by Dr. S.B. Mujumdar and Established the university in 1971. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India conferred the ‘Deemed to be University’ status in 2002.
Mission is to empower the poor and marginalized in Bangladesh through group formation, education and training, collective savings and peer lending to deliver sustainable development outcomes within community organization's.
The vision of Symbiosis is to promote international understanding through quality education. ... Today, Symbiosis has over 40,000 students from all States of India and over 85 countries across the globe studying in 70 institutions offering programmes in different faculties.