University of Delhi

Located in Delhi, India, the University of Delhi is a renowned collegiate research central university. It was established in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institution of Excellence (IoE) by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The University of Delhi is the country's premier university and is known for its high standards in teaching and research and attracts eminent scholars into its faculty.

The university has 16 faculties and 86 departments across its northern and southern campuses, and the remaining colleges across the region. It has 91 constituent colleges. The University of Delhi is one of the largest university systems in the world, with over 400,000 students across its campuses and affiliated colleges. The Vice President of India also holds the office of Chancellor of the university. The university has been ranked 11th by the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2023.

The East Campus is being developed as the hub of the University College of Medical Sciences, while the West Campus will focus on engineering and technology. When the University Grants Commission started setting up Centers of Advanced Study in the country, out of a total of 18 such centers in the early sixties, 6 were given to Delhi University. The subjects included Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Economics, and Sociology.

These centers of advanced study are now centers of excellence in teaching and research in their respective fields. In addition, many of these and other university departments received grants under the Special Assistance Program of the UGC in recognition of their excellent academic work. There are 15 libraries in the university.

These are in addition to libraries in colleges. The University Science Instrumentation Center (USIC) has a number of sophisticated research instruments that are used by many departments of the university and other institutions in and around Delhi. The university has just completed the implementation of fiber-optic networks to the North and South campuses.