Sri Venkateswara College of Arts & Science

Sri Venkateswara College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, founded in 1961 in New Delhi through the efforts of Durgabai Deshmukh, K. L. Rao, and C. Anna Rao, and managed by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Trust. It began with 271 students and 13 faculty members in a school building on Rouse Avenue, later moving to its permanent campus at Dhaula Kuan in 1971. Initially offering BA courses in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Sanskrit, it expanded to include honours courses in arts and sciences, and was recognised as a constituent college of the University of Delhi in 1973. The college now has departments including Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, English, Political Science, History, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics, Electronics, and Biochemistry. It has facilities such as a hostel, a Bioinformatics Center established in 2006, sports facilities, an auditorium, a seminar hall, and a library with over 120,000 books. The college is governed by a Governing Body under TTD nomination and University of Delhi provisions, and has been ranked among top colleges in India by NIRF and Outlook. Notable alumni include Jayant Chaudhary, Rishabh Pant, Sonam Wangchuk, and Navdeep Singh.