Sikkim University is a central university established under an Act of Parliament of India on 2 June 2007. It is located at Gangtok. The college grounds are required to be constructed at Yangang in South Sikkim locale, around 56 kilometers (35 mi) far from Gangtok. The college offers customary courses i humanities, physical and life sciences and ranger service alongside non-conventional courses that would be interesting and identified with the state, including subjects like ethnic history, mountain studies, fringe studies and slope music and society. All the schools in the condition of Sikkim are subsidiary to this college.

The University is at present working from a few procured structures spread in excess of 17 kms along the National Highway – 31A. The principle regulatory office of the University is placed at Samdur, sixth Mile, Tadong, the changeless grounds site of the University. The university’s mission is that it expects to rise as the advanced education center point in the eastern Himalayas in the following few years, concentrating on both access to and nature of advanced education at a moderate expense for the for the most part poor however meriting understudies of the area all in all and Sikkim specifically.