The University of Delhi is a central university founded in 1922, running its own faculties and academic departments directly while also serving as the umbrella body for roughly 90 separately-admitting constituent colleges. This page covers the university itself, its own direct faculties, departments, and administration, not its constituent colleges, each of which runs its own admissions and has its own page.
The President of India serves as Visitor, the Vice President as Chancellor, and the Chief Justice of India as Pro-Chancellor. The university operates across North Campus, its original site, South Campus, established in 1973, and East and West campuses.
Undergraduate admission to DU and its constituent colleges runs entirely through CUET-UG, the Common University Entrance Test conducted by the National Testing Agency, feeding into the Common Seat Allocation System, CSAS-UG, which allocates roughly 70,000 to 72,000 seats across more than 69 admitting colleges. The School of Open Learning and the Non-Collegiate Women's Education Board follow separate, non-CUET routes. Postgraduate admission runs through CUET-PG, feeding CSAS-PG, with DU's own departments offering admission across 82 postgraduate programmes.
Confirmed directly on NIRF's own ranking page for 2025, with a score of 67.38, one of the highest-ranked central universities in the country.
Per the university's own 2026-27 undergraduate admission bulletin, DU runs 16 faculties, 86 academic departments, and 91 colleges, offering 540 approved programmes to over 7 lakh students university-wide.
Undergraduate admission moved entirely to CUET-UG scores through the Common Seat Allocation System in 2022, replacing the older cutoff-list process. Postgraduate admission runs through CUET-PG.
Beyond its constituent colleges, DU itself directly admits into departments spanning the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Management Studies, and others, each running its own postgraduate and, in some departments, undergraduate programmes.
Founded by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly in 1922, giving it one of the longest continuous institutional histories among Indian universities.
Honest caveat: DU's own published pages disagree on its exact structural numbers depending on which page and how recently it was updated. The static About page states 16 faculties, "over 80" departments, and around 80 colleges, a rounder and staler figure than the 2026-27 admission bulletin's 91 colleges and 86 departments. This page uses the most recent official source, but the numbers genuinely shift year to year and are worth re-checking directly before quoting them elsewhere. Separately, University of Delhi is frequently confused with its constituent colleges in search results and aggregator listings; if you are looking for a specific college such as Hindu College or St. Stephen's, that college has its own admissions process distinct from this page.
| Framework | Category | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRF | University | 2025 | #5 |
| NIRF | Research | 2025 | #12 |
| NIRF | Overall | 2025 | #15 |
10 courses offered. Fees in INR lakhs.
| Course | Specialization | Duration | Total seats | Total fee | Avg package |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B.Com (Bachelor of Commerce) | — | 36 months | — | ₹0.9L | — |
| B.Com (Bachelor of Commerce) | Hons | 36 months | — | ₹0.9L | — |
| B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) | — | — | — | — | — |
| BA (Bachelor of Arts) | Honours (General) | 36 months | — | ₹0.9L | — |
| BA (Bachelor of Arts) | — | 36 months | — | ₹0.9L | — |
| BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications) | — | 36 months | — | ₹0.9L | — |
| M.Com (Master of Commerce) | — | 24 months | — | ₹1.6L | — |
| M.Tech (Master of Technology) | Computer Science | — | 30 | — | — |
| MA (Master of Arts) | — | 36 months | — | ₹0.9L | — |
| MCA (Master of Computer Applications) | — | 24 months | — | ₹1.6L | — |
Campus size, faculty strength, hostel facilities, and academic infrastructure.
No. University of Delhi is the central university, its own faculties, departments, and administration. Hindu College, SRCC, St. Stephen's, Miranda House, and roughly 90 other colleges are separately-admitting constituent institutions under the university's umbrella, each with its own admissions process and its own page.
Undergraduate admission runs through CUET-UG, conducted by the National Testing Agency, feeding into the Common Seat Allocation System. This replaced the older cutoff-list process starting in 2022. Postgraduate admission runs through CUET-PG.
Per the university's own 2026-27 undergraduate admission bulletin, its most recent official structural count, DU runs 16 faculties, 86 academic departments, and 91 colleges. Older pages on the university's own site cite slightly different, staler figures, so this number shifts year to year.
Rank 5 in the University category for 2025, with a score of 67.38, confirmed directly on NIRF's own ranking page.
1922, by an Act of the then Central Legislative Assembly, making it a century-old institution.
Last reviewed: 2026-07-31.
