Nitish Kumar is its first Chancellor.[2][3] The proposal to establish the University was finalized in 2021.[4] In 2022, the government announced that the BEU would start operating from the campus of Aryabhatta Knowledge University in Mithapur, Patna.[2] In March 2023, the government made it mandatory for all the engineering colleges in Bihar to be affiliated to the BEU.[5][6][7]