This academic institution in Dadar, Mumbai is the brainchild of Prof. C.S. Deshpande who has had a remarkable educational career. The basic objective of starting an academic institution was to satisfy the inner urge of guiding eager young minds of engineering students with a missionary zeal and imbibing in the receptive minds of the students nobler values of life, thereby enhancing their worthiness.

With the founder's vision and his dedicated efforts Vidyalankar has grown steadily. Vidyalankar consolidated its commitment by establishing 3 colleges, viz Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Vidyalankar Polytechnic and Vidyalankar School of Information Technology.