The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is a university in the city of Vadodara, (Baroda) in Gujarat state, India. Originally known as the Baroda College of Science (established 1881), it became a university in 1949 after the independence of the country. It was later renamed after its benefactor Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the former ruler of Baroda State belongs the royal Gaekwad dynasty of the Marathas.

It is a teaching and residential university and the only university in Gujarat whose medium of instruction is English for all courses. The college has its sources in the Baroda College made in 1881 by Baroda State. The principle vault on the conference corridor was designed according to the incredible arch of the Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur. The motto of the university is “Love of beauty, Goodness and Intellectual Curiosity”. The all out lotus developing out of the lake symbolizes the development of the psyche and its triumph over matter. The fire climbing from the middle of the lotus is the fire of human learning, spreading light and learning for the nearing eras. The maxim recorded beneath characterizes the reason and the presence of life, which is affection for magnificence, goodness and knowledgeable interest.