UNIVERSITY OF DELHI ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय )

 University of Delhi was established in 1922 as a unitary, teaching and residential university by an Act of the then Central Legislative Assembly of British Indian Government.^[3] University was earlier decided to be named as Prince Charles University. But then, Rai Kedarnath, the counsellor of then Chief Commissioner of Delhi and founder of Ramjas College, explained to the Education Minister that naming the university so might have catastrophic effects, as there was no guarantee of the university succeeding in the future, and failure would certainly antagonise the Prince and he suggested the name by which it is known today.^[4]

In the beginning, only three colleges existed in Delhi at the time: St. Stephen's College founded in 1881, Hindu College founded in 1899 and Ramjas College founded in 1917, which were subsequently affiliated to it. The university thus had modest beginnings with only three colleges, two faculties i.e. Arts and Science and about 750 students.

Soon after, the seat of power was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in British India in 1911; the Viceregal Lodge Estate became the residence of the Viceroy of India until 1933 when it was passed over to University of Delhi in October, 1933. Since then, office of vice-chancellor and other offices are housed in this building.^[5]

 The University of Delhi has 16 faculties and 86 academic departments which offer courses in a wide variety of subjects and concentrations.The depth and breadth of the syllabus are very vast, extending well beyond course offerings to many other special programmes and research opportunities.The honours programmes offered by the varsity for a wide spectrum of subjects are highly sought after by students from all over the country.^[17]

• Faculty of Applied Social Sciences & Humanities: The faculty has two departments namely - Business Economics and Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies.^[18]
• Faculty of Arts: It has 14 departments including Arabic, Buddhist Studies, English, Germanic & Romance Studies, Hindi, Library & Information Science, Linguistics, Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Persian, Philosophy, Psychology, Punjabi, Sanskrit, and Urdu.
• Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies: It has two departments:- (i) Commerce (ii) Financial Studies.^[19]
• Faculty of Education: There is only one department of Faculty of Education i.e. Department of Education.
• Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Applied Sciences: There are seven-departments which are of Bio-Physics, Biochemistry, Electronics Science, Genetics, Microbiology, Physical Education & Sports Sciences, and Plant Molecular Biology.
• Faculty of Law: The only department is of Department of Law.^[20]
• Faculty of Management Studies: It also has only one Department of Business Management & Industrial Administration.^[21]
• Faculty of Mathematical Sciences: It has four departments Computer Science, Mathematics, Operational Research and Statistics.

• Faculty of Medical Sciences: Faculty of Medical Sciences provides education to medical education to students of the University of Delhi. It has 22 departments - Anaesthesiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Community Medicine, Dentistry, Dermatology, ENT, Forensic Medicine, Medicine, Microbiology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology,Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Otorhinolaryngology, Paediatrics, Paediatrics Surgery, Pathology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychiatry, Radio Diagnosis, Radio Therapy, and Surgery.^[22]
• Faculty of Music and Fine Arts: The faculty has two departments - Fine Ats and Music.
• Faculty of Open Learning: The faculty is concerned with distance education. It has one department - Distance & Continuing Education.
• Faculty of Science: It has 10 departments - Anthropology, Botany, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, Geology, Home Science, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physics & Astrophysics, and Zoology.
• Faculty of Social Sciences: It has 9 departments - Adult Continuing Education & Extension, African Studies, East Asian Studies, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Social Work and Sociology.^[23]
• Faculty of Technology: The faculty offers courses in Engineering and Technology . The faculty earlier included the Delhi College of Engineering, before it was transformed into the Delhi Technological Universitycurrently it includes only Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology. It has 8 departments - Applied Sciences & Humanities, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Instrumentation & Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Production & Industrial Engineering^[24]