In the QS World University Rankings 2020, JGU is placed among the top 800 universities in the world. According to the Rankings, JGU is one of the world's top 50 universities under 50 years old. In 2019, the QS World University Rankings placed JGU in the top 450 universities in Asia. Mr. Naveen Jindal, JGU's Founding Chancellor, established the university as a charitable project in remembrance of his father, Mr O.P. Jindal. JGU has made tremendous progress toward attaining its goal of serving as a role model for institutional excellence in higher education, thanks to its nine schools. Multiple research projects and centres, as well as three research, capacity-building, and training institutes.

JGU is one of the few universities in Asia to maintain a 1:9 professor-to-student ratio and hire faculty members with superior academic qualifications and expertise from India and other world areas.JGU is a research-intensive university that values interdisciplinarity and innovative pedagogy, pluralism and rigorous scholarship, and globalism and international engagement as basic institutional values. JGU is dedicated to offering high-quality education, conducting research, and promoting scholarship through its outstanding researchers, contemporary facilities, and innovative learning culture.