About Deshbandhu College

Deshbandhu College, established in 1952 is the oldest and the largest co-educational institution in South Delhi, and promotes Arts, Commerce and Science courses. The college offers seven post graduate and eighteen undergraduate courses in disciplines ranging from languages/literature, History, Political Science, Economics, Commerce and all major branches of Sciences and Mathematics. It caters more than 5000 students every year. Presently, it has been ranked 28th in NIRF ranking in India. The sprawling campus of Deshbandhu college, with its lawns, gardens and playground provides a healthy environment for all round development of the generations to come. The campus is dotted with an administrative block, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar block, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam block, Swami Vivekananda auditorium, a huge library, newly developed extension of science block with all state-of-art facilities, conference hall, lecture theaters, well-equipped laboratories, together with students common rooms, gymnasium, canteen, photocopy facility, web access center, medical room, banking facility, a seminar hall and a botanical garden.

The newly developed biodiversity park and i4 - center for research and training are other additional state-of–art facilities in the college. The college has fully functional research laboratories to pursue Doctoral and Post Doctoral research. Recently, in 2018, the Department of Physics organized a successful International Conference, with a participation of more than 400, and in 2020, the department of Zoology organized a nationallevel conference on Insect pest interaction, and an International Conference on Natural Products and Human Health with a participation of more than 200 and 350 respectively. At the international conference, people from Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Thailand, and various states of India participated. An online international conference on Cancer Biology was also organized in 2021 by the Department of Zoology.