Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, was established by an Act of Parliament (No. 58 of 1994) and came into existence on 10 January 1996 under a notification of the Ministry of Human Resource Development dated 5 January 1996. It describes itself as a central university.
Its programmes cover humanities and sciences, engineering, agriculture, biotechnology, business, law, education and environmental sciences. The university states that 50 per cent of seats in all courses are reserved for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students. It opened a satellite campus at Amethi in 2016. Its NIRF 2026 data submission reports 3,374 UG and PG students and 878 full-time PhD scholars in 2024-25.