The vision of Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna is to be a vibrant knowledge University, resonating with the mission of all-round development, by providing value-based, creative and innovative quality education.
The mission of Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna is creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge. Established to lead as a knowledge centre, the University aims to: Enhance its position as one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities and to measure performance against the highest international standards.

Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna was established by the Government of Bihar through the Aryabhatta Knowledge University Act, 2008 [Bihar Act 24 of 2008] to incorporate a University and to conduct and facilitate affiliation of institutions set up by the Government and/or the Trust or Society in the conventional as well as new frontiers of professional education, for example, Engineering & Technology including Information Technology, Nanotechnology and Biotechnology, Management, Medicine, Health, Technology, Public Health, Pharmacy, Optometry, Nursing, Education, Law, etc., and also to achieve excellence in teaching, research and extension work in these and related areas.

The mission includes undertaking research studies and result oriented projects, specific to the region, that may contribute to the economic development of the country.
To foster all round development of students by widening their vision, making them technology savvy and lifelong learners and to make the students realise their roles in serving the cause of social justice and to contribute their share in the national development. AKU has been set up in the State capital of Bihar”Patna” under Bihar Act 24, 2008, the Aryabhatta Knowledge University Act 2008, enacted by the legislature of the State of Bihar in the Fifty Ninth year of the republic of India.

Aryabhhata, or, as written by the Arabs, ARJABAHR, a celebrated Hindu mathematician, and the earliest known author on Algebra, is now generally believed to have lived about the beginning of our era. Nothing, however, has yet appeared that can give us the slightest information as to the place of his birth, or the time when he lived; nor is there, as far as we know, any tradition or record extent from which we can collect any of the circumstances of his life; even his period is still a matter of dispute.We must, therefore, content ourselves with whatever notices we find of Aryabhatta and his system in the various writers on astronomy and other mathematical sciences whose authority is established and cannot be called into doubt.