Delhi School Of Economics

Delhi School of Economics (DSE) was established in the year 1949 at the initiative of Prof. V.K.R.V. Rao as an all India institution for carrying out advanced level education and research in the fields of Economics, Commerce, Business and related Social Sciences.
DSE has distinction of being affiliated with scholars of such repute as Prof. Manmohan Singh (current prime minister of India), Prof. Amartya Sen (noble laureate), and G. N. Bajpai (chairman- SEBI), Prof B.N. Ganguly, Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, Prof. Sukhamoy Chakraborty, Prof. K.N. Raj, Prof. P.K.Ghosh, Dr. Bimal Jalan besides many others.
Over the years DSE has earned the reputation for conducting comprehensive and
rigorous research to meet the changing needs of society.

Department of Commerce

The Delhi University in December 1967 established the Department of Commerce. It has been identified as the center of special assistance by the UGC for advanced research in International Business, Organisational Behaviour, Accounting and Finance.

It started off with traditional M.Phil, Ph.D. and M.Com programmes, but as a response to evolving market standards, post-graduate professional courses of Master of International Business (MIB) and Master of Human Resource & Organizational development (MHROD) were introduced in 1995.

Within a short span of nine years, these courses have made an impressive mark through quality of teaching and in-depth research in all contemporary areas of Human Resource Management and International Business.

The Department is constantly involved in various in-depth research projects sponsored by UGC, ICSSR, ICRIER and the industry.

University of Delhi: A brief backdrop

Established in 1922, the University of Delhi was opened in the Ritz Cinema complex within the elite environments of historic Kashmere Gate.

The journey of this esteemed institution is adorned with numerous milestones. Making a modest beginning when it had 3 colleges, 2 faculties, 6 departments and 750 students, it now boasts of 79 colleges, 14 faculties, 86 academic departments spread all over the city with around 300,000 students pursuing courses at the Undergraduate and Post Graduate levels in most subjects.

In an effort to cope with this enormous expansion, the University in the early seventies initiated a new organizational pattern based on the multi-campus concept. The South Campus made a beginning in 1973 by starting postgraduate programmes in some departments of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in a rented building. The campus acquired land near Dhaula Kuan where the building of Arts Faculty was first constructed.
A number of these and other University departments received grants under the Special ssistance Programme of the UGC in recognition of their outstanding academic work.

The University has 15 libraries in addition to Libraries in the Colleges. The University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC) has a number of sophisticated research instruments which are used by several departments of the University and by other institutions in Delhi and its neighborhood. The University has just completed the implementation of fiber-optic networks on the North and South Campuses.
The Indian President is Delhi University's Chancellor. The University has a history of Nobel Prize winners as its alumni and faculty. It is especially known for its faculties in Economics, Science, Mathematics, Languages and Hindustani Classical Music. Most of the centers in DU are now the centers of excellence in teaching and research in their respective areas.