Tripura University is the main public/central government university of the Indian state of Tripura. Tripura University positioned fourth position in Eastern and 43rd position in all India as indicated by India Today – Nielsen University Ranking Survey 2014 distributed in India Today on June 30, 2014. Tripura University was dispatched on October 2, 1987. The state's first foundation of advanced education, MBB College, had initiated working from 1947 with connection from Calcutta University yet on the prompt result of part the number of inhabitants in the state enrolled a lofty development along these lines did the quantity of understudies yearning for advanced education.

Since the late 1960s CE, understudy developments inside Tripura reliably centered around the interest for the extension of chances for advanced education and setting of Tripura's own college. Reacting to climbing requests Calcutta University power consented to have post-graduate classes on history, math, and financial matters held in MBB College and, in 1976, the University Grants Commission (UGC) perceived this as Calcutta University Post Graduate Center (CUPGC). This just further heightened the state's mission for advanced education and interest for a different college . The work on development, advanced quickly and the state gathering passed the Tripura University Act in 1987, expanding authoritative regard to the methodology of dispatching the University.

 Tripura University gives post-graduate courses in sixteen subjects while the different Departments, Directorates and Centers inside it give 38 degree courses. Every one of the twenty four general and specialized schools, inside the state, are subsidiary with Tripura University. The new campus of Tripura University is situated at Suryamaninagar, 10 km away from the city center of Agartala.