Renowned man of affairs and presenter Dr Karsanbhai K Patel, the founding father of the Nirma cluster of Industries, established the Nirma Education and analysis Foundation (NERF) within the year 1994 with a vision to market pedagogy and supply glorious academic facilities to the youth in the Asian country. In 1995, Nirma Institute of Technology – related to Gujarat University – was established by the NERF. it had been followed by the institution of Nirma Institute of Management in 1996.

In the year 2003, the govt. of Gujarat approved the proposal of the NERF to found the Nirma University, Ahmedabad. Hence, the Nirma University was established underneath a statute gone along the Gujarat State general assembly. The University Grants Commission (UGC) punctually recognised the University underneath Section a pair of (f) of the UGC Act.

The NERF is equally committed to high school education. It powerfully believes within the proven fact that a powerful foundation could be a necessity for education. With this philosophy, it runs 2 colleges ‘Nirma Vidyavihar’ at Bodakdev and Chharodi in Ahmedabad, wherever the stress is ordered on providing value-based education clubbed up with innovative academic practices.