Establishment HJU, the new university, was established on March 1, 2019. This was one of the new decisions taken by the
Ashok Gehlot administration in the beginning of his third tenure. It was again named after the journalist and former
Chief Minister of Rajasthan,
Haridev Joshi.
Closure of 2017 Following the
2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election and the rise of the
Vasundhara Raje administration, a cabinet sub-committee recommended the closure HJUJ as well as two other institutes,
Rajiv Gandhi Tribal University (RGTU) and Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University. and stopped the admission process for the following year in HJUJ redirecting students to the journalism department in
Rajasthan University. This was done to "ensure that a new batch of students was not affected" by future decisions. In November 2015 Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University became the first university to ever be closed in India In March 2017 a
repeal bill for the closure of the university was introduced to the
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, putting an end to the possibility of reopening of the bill and HJUJ became the second university to be closed in India. The courses which were taught under HJUJ have been running under Rajasthan University's centre of mass communication since then.
Re-establishment in 2019 Following the
2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election and the rise of the
Third Ashok Gehlot ministry in late 2018, the cabinet decided to open a journalism university afresh under the similar name.
Haridev Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication, Jaipur Bill, 2019 was introduced on 11 February 2019 and passed on 13 February. On 8 March 2019 newspaper editor
Om Thanvi was appointed its first
vice-chancellor (VC). The university opened its gates in the academic year 2019–2020. In August 2022, Prof. Sudhi Rajiv was appointed VC. ==Academics==