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The University of Delhi is one the premier institutions of higher learning in the country. Renowned for its high standards, reputed faculty members, and world class facilities, the university draws students from all over India and from across the world. Delhi University was founded in 1922 with just three colleges and only 750 students. The first colleges affiliated with it were Hindu College, Ramjas College and St. Stephens College. These were the first few colleges in the area. The faculties were also limited just two in numbers. The university was created by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly. The university offices and the library shifted to its present offices in 1933 which at the time was the Viceregal Lodge Estate. This has remained the main center for all the activities of the University of Delhi being the hub of not just the central administrative offices, examination offices and the sports complex but also the sports complex and the main departments of the Faculty of Science.

The University of Delhi has expanded into one of the largest in the whole of India with over 14 faculties and 86 academic departments. With over 79 colleges the university draws more than 2, 20,000 students from all over the country.

In the first half of the seventies, the University of Delhi started a new executive model with a multi-campus system. This was aimed at relieving the pressure of the rising number of applicants to the campus. The start was made with the opening of the South Campus in 1973 with the commencement of postgraduate programs in the certain departments of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

There are two more campuses in the offering. While the West Campus will focus on Engineering and Technology, the East Campus will be centre around the University College of Medical Science. The university grants commission or the UGC awarded 6 Centres of Advanced Studies to the DU in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Economics and Sociology which have now developed into centers of excellence in instruction and research. Already blessed with15 libraries over and above the individual college libraries the university has hastened information dissemination with the completion of the fiber-optic networks in the North and South Campus.

This site is dedicated to all the students of Delhi University and the Delhi University alumni. With this site all the people connected to the university including the Delhi University alumni will be able to maintain an online portfolio. The online portfolio will allow instant access to all you information on the internet and will be available for all to witness. Anyone looking for any of the students of Delhi University and the Delhi University alumni will have quick access to them via this website.

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