Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK) is a Pontifical Athenaeum established by the Dicastery for Culture and Education, Vatican, as an ecclesiastical institute for higher learning and research. It is empowered to grant degrees, including Licentiate and Doctorate in Philosophy, Theology, and Formative Spirituality and Counselling. The Institute of Oriental Canon Law, aggregated to the Faculty of Eastern Canon Law-Pontifical Oriental Institute of the Gregorian University, grants a licentiate in Oriental Canon Law.

Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram is a Registered Society under the Karnataka Societies of Registration Act 1960 (Karnataka Act No.17 of 1960) as Sl. No. 13/84-85 of Bengaluru City Corporation.