Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi or Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), is a state university established by the Government of Delhi through legislation enacted by the Delhi Legislature. The university began functioning in August 2008. It is a unitary non-affiliating university with a focus on undergraduate and postgraduate studies and research in humanities and social sciences.

It is fully funded by the state government of Delhi. The university has now been declared eligible to receive central government aid. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council has given the university an 'A' grade. It is named in honour of the scholar B.R. Ambedkar, who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and a key founding figure of India.

AUD is a multi-campus university with facilities planned across the city. AUD currently has three campuses - at Kashmiri Gate, Karampura and Lodhi Road, where 40 undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes are currently being offered. The Kashmere Gate campus is located on the erstwhile Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University campus, as well as the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical Women's University.

Originally built for the Delhi College of Engineering, the historic campus also houses the 300-year-old Dara Shikoh Library. It is located close to the Delhi Assembly, Old Delhi Railway Station, St. James' Church, Delhi and the Red Fort, and of course Kashmere Gate (this is the northern gate to the historic walled city of Delhi. Built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, the gate was so named because it marked the start of the road leading to Kashmir).

The School of Education Studies moved to a new campus at Lodhi Road in September 2017 The Delhi government's Directorate of Higher Education has handed over the old campus of Delhi University's Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, located in Karampura area of ​​West Delhi, to AUD. Deendayal Upadhyaya College is all set to move to its new campus in Dwarka, Delhi near Netaji Subhas University of Technology.