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University of Delhi

IndiaAsia

#328

QS World University Rankings 2026

42.6

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#328

QS World University Rankings 2026

#328

QS World University Rankings 2025

42.6

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
46.9
QS 2026 rank
#248

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
41.9
QS 2026 rank
#319

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
6.9
QS 2026 rank
#801

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
47.1
QS 2026 rank
#403

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
1.8
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
2.8
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
7.5
QS 2026 rank
#801

International research network

QS 2026 score
83
QS 2026 rank
#294

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
98.9
QS 2026 rank
#30

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
71.2
QS 2026 rank
#297
University profile

About University of Delhi

A large academic map requires a clear research starting point

University of Delhi makes a wide academic structure visible through faculties, departments, centres and institutes, colleges, libraries, and campus resources. Its public research navigation separates the Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council, research profile, institutional human ethics committee, intellectual property routes, prevention of plagiarism, thesis repository, research opportunities, technology transfer, major research areas, and academic-integrity guidance. These links are useful because they show that research has several layers: a disciplinary home, an institutional process, an ethical framework, and sometimes an external route for knowledge transfer. They do not tell a reader which department or research group is the right place for a particular question.

The faculty listing also shows the range of possible academic homes. It includes arts, science, law, commerce and business studies, education, management studies, music, interdisciplinary and applied sciences, and many departments within those areas. A topic involving environmental change, social policy, language, physics, health, or data should not be matched to the university only through a broad keyword. The stronger approach is to find the department or centre that names the field and then identify the research object, evidence, and current activity it makes visible. The central map helps organise that search; it cannot complete it on its own.

The Research Council links research activity with innovation and partnership

University of Delhi's Research Council describes work around university-industry connections, incubation, innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, research facilities, and research and development cells. The council presents itself as a bridge between academic work and outside organisations. This can be relevant when a question depends on technology transfer, a prototype, a research facility, an organisational partner, or an intellectual-property process. It should still be treated as a support and coordination route rather than proof that every department follows the same pathway. The academic unit responsible for the research question is where the details of methods, data, participants, and ongoing projects need to be checked.

The council also highlights guidance on intellectual-property protection and the movement of university-generated technologies into wider use. That is a concrete institutional feature, but it describes a possible route after or alongside research rather than a field of research by itself. A person comparing a project should ask whether the core work is scientific, social, technical, cultural, educational, or policy-related before deciding whether the council's innovation role is central. The distinction matters. A research group may use a laboratory or archive without seeking external transfer, while another group may focus on a problem whose value depends on a partnership or practical implementation.

Trace a Delhi research question from department to institutional support

Create a University of Delhi evidence note by describing one question in ordinary language and locating its closest faculty, department, centre, or institute. Add a specific research object such as a material, environmental system, text collection, social group, health condition, legal issue, educational setting, or technical process. Next, record which central route is genuinely relevant: the ethics committee, a research facility, the thesis repository, the Research Council, academic-integrity guidance, or technology transfer. This gives a clear division between the academic work and the services that may support it. It also prevents institutional navigation from being mistaken for a detailed account of a research programme.

Keep one question open at the end. A department may match the topic but not show the current project or research team. A support route may be available without clarifying how it is used in the local setting. That is a useful gap to investigate rather than a reason to add unsupported claims. University of Delhi's public material provides a broad academic map and a visible set of research processes. A careful comparison moves through that map in order, from the discipline and research object to the appropriate institutional support, while preserving the distinctions between them.

Institution record

Country
India
Region
Asia
Status
Public
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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