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.