Vardhman Mahaveer Open University is an open university in Kota, Rajasthan, India, established on 23 July 1987, and was initially known as Kota Open University focussing particularly on the humanities, commerce, library science and informatics. It is geographically distributed throughout Rajasthan, with regional centres in Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur and Bharatpur, and several tens of "study centres" in cities, in addition to a special centre at New Delhi. The university has almost 50,000 new admissions in 2015 with a learner base of more than 100,000 students every year.