45-572: Janki Devi Memorial College (JDMC) is one of the women's colleges of University of Delhi . The college is located at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, New Delhi . The college is near the Karol Bagh Metro Station . The college was established in the year 1959 by Shri Brij Krishna Chandiwala in the memory of his mother Smt. Janki Devi. Under the aegis of University of Delhi the college offers various undergraduate, postgraduate and short-term courses. Theses are : Anushka - Graced
90-695: A key architect of the Five-Year Plans of India Sukhamoy Chakravarty ; senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of economics at Columbia University Jagdish Bhagwati ; and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan , a leading woman figure in the Pakistan Movement and wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan . University Grants Commission (India) University Grants Commission ( UGC; ISO : Viśvavidyālaya Anudāna Āyōga )
135-644: A large number of major actors and actresses of Indian cinema and theatre including Amitabh Bachchan , Shah Rukh Khan , Manoj Bajpayee , Konkona Sen Sharma , Anurag Kashyap , Arjun Rampal , Imran Zahid , Neha Dhupia , Sakshi Tanwar , Mallika Sherawat , Imtiaz Ali , Huma Qureshi , Siddharth , Sushant Singh Rajput , Shriya Saran , Vishal Bhardwaj , Sandhya Mridul , Aditi Rao Hydari , Shekhar Kapur , Deepa Mehta , Nimrat Kaur , Kabir Khan , Aditi Arya , Sidharth Malhotra and Triptii Dimri . The CWE wrestler Shanky Singh had also pursued B.Com. from Maharaja Agrasen College of Delhi University. Singer Papon
180-664: A new body, the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI). This form of the bill was ultimately dropped in the face of strong political opposition, and was reworked in 2019 in order to gain political consensus. As of mid-2020 the UGC continues to remain in existence. Ministry of Human Resource Development, MHRD, was renamed as 'Ministry of Education'. On 13 April 2022 the University Grants Commission of India (UGC India) announced to allow
225-826: Is a statutory body under Department of Higher Education , Ministry of Education , Government of India . It was set up in accordance to the UGC Act 1956 and is charged with coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of higher education in India. It provides recognition to universities in India, and disbursements of funds to such recognized universities and colleges . The UGC headquarters are in New Delhi , and it has six regional centres in Pune , Bhopal , Kolkata , Hyderabad , Guwahati and Bangalore . A proposal to replace it with another new regulatory body called HECI
270-937: Is also done on a merit basis. Only 20 colleges of Delhi University provide hostel facilities to students. The President of India is the Visitor, the Vice President of India is the Chancellor and the Chief Justice of India is the Pro-Chancellor of the university. The Court, the Executive Council, the Academic Council and the Finance Committee are the administrative authorities of the university. The University Court
315-694: Is ranked as the best B-school in the country at this level, by India Today. The University of Delhi's 86 academic departments are divided into 16 faculties. In the past, the Faculty of Technology offered courses in Engineering and Technology. The faculty earlier included the Delhi College of Engineering, before it was transformed into the Delhi Technological University and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology before it
360-414: Is the supreme authority of the university and has the power to review the acts of the Executive Council and the Academic Council. The Executive Council is the highest executive body of the university. The Academic Council is the highest academic body of the university and is responsible for the maintenance of standards of instruction, education, and examination within the university. It has the right to advise
405-565: Is under consideration by the Government of India . The UGC provides doctoral scholarships to all those who clear JRF in the National Eligibility Test . On an average, each year ₹ 725 crore (US$ 87 million) is spent on doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships by the commission. The UGC was first formed in 1945 to oversee the work of the three Central Universities of Aligarh , Banaras and Delhi . Its responsibility
450-745: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, 201–250 in Asia in 2022 and at the same band among emerging economies. It was ranked 601–700 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2023. In India, it was ranked 15 overall by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2024 and 6 among universities. The Delhi University Stadium is a rugby sevens stadium , situated within
495-872: The Cluster Innovation Centre , Delhi School of Economics , Delhi School of Journalism and the Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR). The South Campus was opened in 1973 as part of the university's expansion plan. It moved to its present location on Benito Juarez Marg, near Dhaula Kuan , in 1984, and covers 69 acres. Its constituent colleges include, Aryabhatta College , Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College , Gargi College , Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College , PGDAV College , Jesus and Mary College , Ramanujan College , Maitreyi College , Motilal Nehru College , Motilal Nehru College Evening, Ram Lal Anand College , Sri Venkateswara College , Lady Shri Ram College , Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College ,
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#1732801170573540-626: The Delhi College of Arts and Commerce , the Institute of Home Economics , the College of Vocational Studies , Sri Aurobindo College , Kamala Nehru College , Dyal Singh College , Shaheed Bhagat Singh College and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing . Acharya Narendra Dev College . Some colleges of Delhi University offer hostel facilities to students, but this facility is limited to a specific number of colleges. The allotment of hostels
585-1132: The Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia ; former Minister of State for Corporate and Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid ; former Former Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal ; former Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni ; former Union Minister for Disinvestment Arun Shourie ; former Chief Minister of Delhi and Governor of Rajasthan Madan Lal Khurana ; former MLA of Lakhipur Rajdeep Goala ; president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union Aishe Ghosh and Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha , Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo . DU has educated numerous foreign politicians and heads of state and government including State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi , third President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika , former Prime Minister of Nepal Girija Prasad Koirala , sixth President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , sixteenth Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Harini Amarasuriya and two former Prime Ministers of Bhutan , Sangay Ngedup , and Khandu Wangchuk . DU has also produced
630-614: The "maker of the university". He served as Vice-Chancellor until 1950. The silver jubilee year of the university in 1947 coincided with India's independence, and the national flag was hoisted in the main building for the first time by Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao . In that year there was no convocation ceremony due to the partition of India . Instead, a special ceremony was held in 1948, attended by then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru , as well as by Lord Mountbatten , Lady Mountbatten , Abul Kalam Azad , Zakir Husain and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar . Twenty-five years later
675-536: The 12th class percentage marks will act as a tie-breaker for students securing the same CUET scores. DU is one of the most sought-after institutions of higher education in India. It also has one of the highest publication counts among Indian universities. The annual honorary degree ceremony of the university has been conferred upon several people, which includes film actor Amitabh Bachchan , former Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit , cartoonist R. K. Laxman , chemist C. N. R. Rao and former Prime Minister of
720-482: The Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi and former VC of JNU , was appointed as the chairman of the UGC. The types of universities regulated by the UGC include: As of 25 August 2022 , The University Grants Commission (UGC) has also released the list of 21 fake universities operating in India. UGC has said that these 21 self-styled, unrecognized institutions functioning in contravention of
765-467: The Executive Council on all academic matters. The Finance Committee is responsible for recommending financial policies, goals, and budgets. Though the colleges are all constituent to the University of Delhi, as it is a collegiate university , depending upon the funding Delhi Colleges broadly fall into three categories: The colleges maintained by universities get 100% deficit maintenance grants while
810-643: The Higher Education and Research (HE&R) Bill, 2011, intends to replace the UGC with a National Commission for Higher Education & Research (NCHER) "for determination, coordination, maintenance and continued enhancement of standards of higher education and research". The bill proposes absorbing the UGC and other academic agencies into this new organisation. Those agencies involved in medicine and law would be exempt from this merger "to set minimum standards for medical and legal education leading to professional practice". The bill has received opposition from
855-524: The North Campus. Spread over 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft), the stadium has a seating capacity of 2,500 permanent and 7,500 temporary seats. Construction began in 2008 and the stadium was inaugurated in July 2010, ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games . It also includes a training area for netball, boxing, women's wrestling and athletics. After the games the stadium was handed over to
900-635: The UGC Act have been declared as fake and are not entitled to confer any degree. The UGC has also issued warning to Deemed to be Universities to not use the word Deemed University as per their recent changes and guidelines. UGC, along with CSIR currently conducts NET for appointments of teachers in colleges and universities. It has made NET qualification mandatory for teaching at graduation level and at post-graduation level since July 2009. However, those with PhD are given five percent relaxation. Accreditation for higher learning over universities under
945-520: The UGC is located at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in New Delhi, with two additional bureaus operating from 35, Feroze Shah Road and the South Campus of University of Delhi as well. In December 2015, the government of India set a National Institutional of Ranking Framework under UGC which will rank all educational institutes by April 2016. In February 2022, M. Jagadesh Kumar , a professor in
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#1732801170573990-535: The United Kingdom Gordon Brown . There are 91 colleges affiliated to the University of Delhi, spread across Delhi . North Campus and South Campus serve as the two main campuses of the university. Zakir Husain Delhi College , which is situated in the central part of New Delhi, is the oldest college in Delhi carrying 327 years of legacy. The North Campus hosts the three founding colleges of
1035-536: The above colleges were subsequently affiliated to the university. The university initially had two faculties (Arts and Science) and approximately 750 students. The seat of power in British India had been transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911. The Viceregal Lodge Estate became the residence of the Viceroy of India until October 1933, when it was given to the University of Delhi. Since then, it has housed
1080-496: The aegis of University Grants Commission is overseen by following fifteen autonomous statutory institutions: In 2009, the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal made known the government of India's plans to consider the closing down of the UGC and the related body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), in favour of a higher regulatory body with more sweeping powers. This goal, proposed by
1125-680: The campus with her exquisite beauty University of Delhi The University of Delhi , informally known as Delhi University ( DU , ISO : Dillī Viśvavidyālaya ), is a collegiate research central university located in Delhi , India . It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognised as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The Vice President of India serves as
1170-535: The colleges run by trusts get 95% deficit grants. The university has 65 colleges that have liberal courses in humanities, social sciences, and science. Twenty-five of these colleges are affiliated with the South Campus while the others are to the North Campus. The total number of colleges under the university is 77 if the colleges that run professional courses are included. Some colleges also offer evening courses. The university includes an undergraduate management college 'Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, which
1215-523: The coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in university education. In November 1956, the UGC became a statutory body upon the passing of the " University Grants Commission Act, 1956 " by the Indian Parliament . In 1994 and 1995, the UGC decentralized its operations by setting up six regional centres at Pune , Hyderabad , Kolkata , Bhopal , Guwahati and Bangalore . The head office of
1260-486: The faculty of medical sciences. Due to lack of surety in quality of legal education, The Bar Council of India has issued a notification asking Delhi University (DU) to shut down law courses offered in evening shift at its colleges. Internationally, the University of Delhi was ranked 521–530 in the QS World University Rankings of 2023 and 85 in Asia. It was ranked 1001–1200 in the world by
1305-644: The field of business include Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja , President of the World Bank - Ajay Banga and managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network Arnab Goswami . Notable faculty members of DU include eminent historians like RS Sharma and Ramachandra Guha ; recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Amartya Sen ; former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh ; economist and
1350-618: The fifth President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed ; sixth Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit ; fourth Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's first woman Chief Minister Sucheta Kriplani ; economist and former leader of the Janata Party Subramanian Swamy ; fourteenth Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik ; industrialist and former Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal ; diplomat and Foreign Secretary Jyotindra Nath Dixit ; former Deputy Chairman of
1395-605: The golden jubilee celebrations of 1973 were attended by the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi , Satyajit Ray , Amrita Pritam , and M. S. Subbulakshmi . The university has grown into one of the largest universities in India. There are 16 faculties, 86 academic departments, 91 colleges spread across the city, with 132,435 regular students (114,494 undergraduates and 17,941 postgraduates). There are 261,169 students in non-formal education programmes (258,831 undergraduates and 2,338 postgraduates). DU's chemistry, geology, zoology, sociology, and history departments have been awarded
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1440-570: The government decided that all grants to universities and higher learning institutions should be handled by the UGC. Subsequently, an inauguration was held on 28 December 1953 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad , the Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research. The University Grants Commission (UGC) came into existence on 28 December 1953 and became a statutory Organization of the Government of India by an Act of Parliament in 1956, for
1485-609: The humanities and social sciences include First Deputy Managing Director of economics at IMF Gita Gopinath ; economist and Senior Vice-president and Chief Economist of the World Bank Kaushik Basu ; historians Arundhati Virmani , Ramnarayan Rawat , Upinder Singh and Usha Sanyal ; professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University Veena Das ; Kathak dancer Uma Sharma ; Bharatnatyam dancer Geeta Chandran ; gender rights activist Meera Khanna and IPS officer and politician Kiran Bedi Notable alumni in
1530-609: The local governments of the Indian states of Bihar , Kerala , Punjab , Tamil Nadu and West Bengal , but has received general support. On 27 June 2018, the Ministry of Human Resource Development announced its plans to repeal the UGC Act, 1956. A bill was expected to be introduced in the 2018 monsoon session of the Parliament, which if passed would have led to the dissolution of the UGC. The bill also stipulated formation of
1575-620: The office of the vice-chancellor and other offices. When Sir Maurice Gwyer came to India in 1937 to serve as Chief Justice of British India, he became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi. During his time, postgraduate teaching courses were introduced and laboratories were established at the university. Members of the faculty included Daulat Singh Kothari in Physics and Panchanan Maheshwari in Botany. Gwyer has been called
1620-583: The sciences include physicist Archana Bhattacharyya , theoretical physicist Pran Nath , SLAC physicist Jogesh Pati particle physicist Amitava Raychaudhuri , astrophysicist Vinod Krishan , chemists Charusita Chakravarty and Anil Kumar Tyagi , engineer and "father of the pentium processor " Vinod Dham , mathematician Eknath Prabhakar Ghate , astrophysicist Sangeeta Malhotra , engineer Yogi Goswami , neurosurgeon B. K. Misra (1st Vice-President of World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies) , and biomaterials researcher Sanjukta Deb . Notable alumni in
1665-517: The status of Centres of Advanced Studies. In addition, a number of the university's departments receive grants under the Special Assistance Programme of the University Grants Commission in recognition of their outstanding academic work. From the year 2022, DU changed its admission pattern from the 12th percentage mark based to CUET (Common University Entrance Test). Now it will admit students based on their CUET scores. And
1710-656: The students to complete two academic programmes simultaneously keeping in view the proposals outlined in the National Education Policy - NEP 2020 which emphasizes the need to enable multiple pathways to learning involving both formal and non-formal education modes. In a joint notification with All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ), University Grants Commission advised Indian nationals & overseas citizens of India against pursuing higher education in Pakistan stating that any such student with
1755-528: The three faculties of the central university, including arts, commerce and science. The university offers 70 post-graduate degrees. DU also offers MPhil in about 28 subjects. In addition to these, it offers 90+ Certificate courses and 28 Diplomas. There are 15 Advanced Diplomas offered in various languages. The university offers PhD courses, which may be awarded by any faculty of the university under ordinance VI-B. But, speciality and super speciality medical degrees like DM , DCh etc., could only be awarded by
1800-529: The university by Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, there after in 2011, the university initiated an upgrade plan, to create a multi-purpose arena with both outdoor and indoor facilities. The university opened access to these facilities in late 2011. Notable alumni in Indian politics include: lawyer and former Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley ; Foreign Secretary of India Vijay Keshav Gokhale ; Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar ; former diplomat, writer and Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor ;
1845-475: The university chancellor. The university is ranked 6th by National Institutional Ranking Framework 2024. The University of Delhi was established in 1922 was created by act of Central Legislative assembly. Hari Singh Gour served as the university's first Vice-Chancellor from 1922 to 1926. Only four colleges existed in Delhi at the time, which were affiliated to University of the Punjab at that time: All of
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1890-796: The university. It now has the School of Open Learning , the Faculty of Arts , the Faculty of Law , the Faculty of Management Studies and 16 colleges including Kirori Mal College , Lady Irwin College , Daulat Ram College , Hansraj College , Hindu College , Indraprastha College for Women , Mata Sundri College for Women , Lakshmibai College , Miranda House , Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College , Ramjas College , St. Stephen's College , Swami Shraddhanand College, Shri Ram College of Commerce , Satyawati College , Shyam Lal College . The campus also houses centres for graduate study and research, which include
1935-789: Was also enrolled in Motilal Nehru College Notable DU alumni in poetry and literature include the Sahitya Akademi Award winning dramatist and playwright Harcharan Singh , the Urdu poet Akhtar ul Iman , and the writers Vikram Seth , Anita Desai (Shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times), Amitav Ghosh , Kunzang Choden , Upamanyu Chatterjee , Ali Sardar Jafri , and the Padma Vibhushan recipient Khushwant Singh . Notable alumni in
1980-670: Was extended in 1947 to cover all Indian universities. In August 1949 a recommendation was made to reconstitute the UGC along similar lines to the University Grants Committee of the United Kingdom. This recommendation was made by the University Education Commission of 1948–1949 which was set up under the chairmanship of S. Radhakrishnan "to report on Indian university education and suggest improvements and extensions". In 1952
2025-550: Was transformed into the Netaji Subhas University of Technology . It was again established in 2023. The University of Delhi has two affiliated faculties: There are about 28 centres and institutes at DU. These are divided into four categories: There are 240 courses available at the university for undergraduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG). There are a total 201 courses offered by Delhi University like MBBS , B.Tech. etc. Courses are mainly classified under
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