Colleges Under Delhi University (DU)

Updated on: Jun 24, 2015

The University of Delhi or DU is a central university situated in Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. It was established in the year 1922 and it offers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. The university has two campuses, namely north campus and south campus in the northern and southern part of the city respectively. The University at present has 65 colleges that have liberal courses in humanities, commerce, social sciences and science courses. Twenty five of these colleges are affiliated to the South Campus while the others are to the North Campus. All these colleges except two, Lady Irwin College and Institute of Home Economics, are undergraduate colleges.

The total number of colleges under the University goes up to 77 if you include the colleges that run the professional courses. Some colleges also offer evening courses and have been counted as a different college.

The academic session of the University starts on 21st July every year while admissions for the regular courses are held in June-July. Admission in courses that are done through entrance examination follow a different schedule.

Admission to all the undergraduate courses (except the professional ones) is carried out by each college though a centralized common form and the cut off lists are announced by the colleges, each year in the month of June. This year's 1st cut-off list is expected on 25 June, 2015.

Delhi University has begun the admission process for the academic year 2015-2016.

Given below is the list of colleges under Delhi University

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