Education in Delhi has seen a great progress over the past few years with the establishment of new research institutions and colleges. Delhi has always been acting as an educational hub of India by producing great talents to the nation.

The colleges, schools and universities in India has the capacity to compete with world class institutions. The quality of education offered in Delhi has resulted in efficient and better workforce with great dedication towards the development of the economy.

Directorate of higher education of Delhi came into existence in the year 1997 and it is also acting as the administrative department of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, which came into existence due to the efforts of Government of Delhi. With the focus of Directorate of Higher Education towards offering quality education, a number of government colleges are functioning in Delhi and list of colleges is given below:

Government colleges coming under GGSIPU:

• Ambedkar Institute of Technology

• Bhai Parmananad Institute of Business Studies

• Mahila Institute of Technology (for Women)

• National Power Training Institute

• Vardhman Mahavir Medical College

• Dr. B.R. Sur Homeopathic Medical College Hospital and Research Centre

• Institute of Applied Manpower Research

• Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management

Colleges fully funded by Government of Delhi:

• Indira Gandhi Institute of Phy. Education & sports Science

• Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies

• Shaheed Raj Guru College

• Dean Dayal Upadhyaya College

• Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College

• Acharya Narendra Dev College

• Bhagini Nivedita College

• Keshav Maha Vidyalaya

• Maharaja Agrasen College

• Aditi Mahavidyalaya

• Mahirshi Balmiki College of Education

• Bhaskara Charya College of Applied Science

Colleges partially funded by Government of Delhi:

• Shivaji College

• Rajdhani College

• Motilal Nehru College

• Kamla Nehru College

• Laxmi Bai College

• Gargi College

• Shaheed Bhagat Singh College

• Swami Shardhanand College

• Maitreyi College

• Kalindi College

• S.P.M. College (For Women)

• Bharti College

• Satyawati College

• Sri Aurbindo College

• Vivekanand College

• Delhi College of Arts & College

Some of the details regarding the previously mentioned colleges is given below:

Government colleges coming under GGSIPU:

Government Colleges coming under the affiliation of GGSIPU are offering education under different faculties like computer applications, business administration, archeology, Homeopathy medicine, allopathic medicine and engineering & technology. Some of courses offered by these institutions combined together are given below:

• Bachelor of Technology in

o Electronics & communication Engineering

o Computer Science Engineering

o Mechanical & automation engineering

o Power engineering

• Bachelor of Computer Applications

• Bachelor of Business Administration

• Master of Computer Applications

• MBBS

• BHMS

• Master’s in Human Resource Planning and development

• Master’s of Archeology & Heritage Management

• Master’s in conversion, preservation & heritage management

Colleges fully funded by Government of Delhi:

Most of the wholly-funded colleges of Government of Delhi are constituent units of University of Delhi and they are offering education in the faculties of arts, science, education, physical education, business studies, etc… Some of the courses offered by the fully funded college of Government of Delhi are given below:

• Bachelor of Science (Honors) in

o Microbiology

o Physics

o Instrumentation

o Food technology

o Electronics

o Polymer science

o Computer science

o Biomedical science

o Mathematical sciences

o Botany

o chemistry

• Bachelor of Commerce (General & Honors)

• Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in

o Social work

o Hindi journalism

o Geography

• Bachelor of Elementary Education

These colleges are offering several short-term and diploma courses as well in addition to the aforesaid courses.

Colleges partially funded by Government of Delhi:

The partially funded college of Government of Delhi are offered with 5% of fund by the Government and these colleges are mostly arts and science colleges. In addition to UG and PG courses on different subjects in the faculties arts, science and commerce, these colleges also offer different job-oriented and add-on courses to improve the future employment prospects of the students.

Thus, India’s Capital city Delhi has a number of colleges that are wholly or partially funded by the government to meet the educational requirements of people in and around Delhi. Further the Directorate of Education of the Delhi Government believes that education holds the key towards modernizational integration, social transformation and economic growth. Therefore, government take every step to develop the education sector by all means.