Shaheed Bhagat Singh College

In the University of Delhi's first 2026-27 allocation round, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College filled B.Com. (Hons.) down to a CUET score of 836.8295 and B.A. (Hons.) Hindi down to 344.5787. Both rows carry the same college name in the same university document, and the distance between them is the first thing an applicant to this Sheikh Sarai campus should absorb. The second is what follows the degree: of the 1,169 students who finished a three-year programme here in 2023-24, 262 took a job and 737 went on to study further.

Shaheed Bhagat Singh College opened in 1967 as a co-educational constituent college of the University of Delhi and picked up postgraduate status seven years later, as its own college profile records. The motto it works under, Rashtra Devo Bhava, is drawn from the revolutionary the college is named for, and it keeps a Centre for Shaheed Bhagat Singh Studies and Research founded in its golden jubilee year, which has built an archive of British Home Political records, memoirs of freedom fighters and manuscripts of interviews with his comrades, per the 2026-27 prospectus.

What it teaches is narrower than the University's better-known colleges, and deliberately so. The course list runs to honours degrees in Commerce, Economics, English, Geography, Hindi, History, Mathematics and Political Science, a B.Com. programme degree, the two B.A. Programme pairings, and one postgraduate course, M.Com. Mathematics is the only B.Sc. here. There is no chemistry, physics, botany or zoology honours to choose between, so a science applicant is looking at the wrong college and a commerce applicant is looking at the right one.

The campus is its own. The college's annual quality return files it as a constituent, co-educational, urban institution at Sheikh Sarai Phase-II in New Delhi, functioning from its own premises, affiliated to the University of Delhi and recognised by the UGC under sections 2f and 12(B). The same return is precise about the money in a way that matters to anyone trying to place this college: it runs primarily on government grants, 95% of which come from the University Grants Commission and the rest from the Government of NCT of Delhi, with student fees and interest on fixed deposits behind that. So the degree is a central university's, the funding is overwhelmingly central with a Delhi government top-up, and the All India Survey on Higher Education nonetheless files the management as state government. All three are true at once, and none of them changes how you get in.

Who actually studies here is the surprise. The college's NIRF 2025 data submission counts 3,883 students across its three-year undergraduate programmes, of whom 3,135 are men and 748 women. Of that roll, 980 come from within the state and 2,895 from outside it. This is a Delhi college whose classrooms are filled mostly by students who moved to Delhi for it, which changes what an applicant should be asking about rent, travel and term-time logistics.

One more thing to get straight before reading any number about this college. Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College is a separate institution that shares the site, and in 2025-26 the two ran under one governing body with Prof. Arun Kumar Attree listed as principal of both and teacher representatives drawn from each. The evening college files its own programmes and its own scores in the University's allocation lists. Colleges of the same name also exist in other states; the one described here is the University of Delhi's, at Sheikh Sarai.

The teaching list is short enough to read in one go, and every undergraduate seat on it is filled through the same national test and the same university portal.

Now the money, which the college prints in an unusually granular form. Tuition is not the bill. In the fee sheet published in the college prospectus for 2023-24, the tuition line for a first-year undergraduate is 180 rupees for the year, running May to April, and everything else is a separate charge under one of two accounts.

Three details in that sheet are worth pulling out. Your subject adds its own line to the societies account: a B.Com. or M.Com. student pays 500 to the Commerce Association, 100 to the Business Studies Journal and 600 to the department's international seminar, while English pays 600 to its association, Hindi 500 to the Hindi Parishad, Economics 500 plus 300 for its journal, and Mathematics 1,000. An M.Com. student pays 216 in tuition rather than 180, taking the maintenance total to 1,821. A student admitted in the Persons with Disabilities category pays 105 in that account and a staff case pays 5, in the same prospectus.

That sheet prints no combined figure for the two accounts, and it is no longer the current one. For the session now running, the college's tuition fees and annual charges notice drops the long head-by-head list and bills under three college heads instead, a student welfare fund, a development fund, and facilities and services charges, with the University's development fee, student welfare fund, facilities charge, economically weaker section support fund and DUSU levy set beside them. Only the college student welfare fund moves with the course you are admitted to; every other head on that notice is the same whichever door you come in by, and the tuition line is still the smallest number on it.

There is no entrance test here, no interview and no separate application form. CUET (UG) supplies the score, the University of Delhi's Common Seat Allocation System supplies the allocation, and the college enters only at the end: its 2026-27 prospectus states that admission runs on University guidelines through committees constituted for it, and prints the admission coordinators to contact course by course. What the college does control is the menu you can preference, and one part of that menu has quietly shrunk.

Its courses page still lists six B.A. Programme combinations, pairing Economics with Mathematics, Economics with Commerce, English with History, Geography with Political Science, Hindi with Geography, and History with Political Science. The 2026-27 prospectus describes the B.A. Programme department as offering two, Commerce with Mathematics and History with Political Science, and those two are the only pairs carried for this college in the University's own seat matrix and allocation list. Order preferences off the University's documents rather than the courses page.

The sports route is worth studying before you apply, because it is narrow and specific. The University of Delhi's college-wise sports seat matrix for 2026-27 gives the college 29 places for men and 11 for women across six games. Cricket takes 7 of the men's places and athletics 6, with basketball and volleyball on 5 each, football on 4 and table tennis on 2; the women's places go to basketball, volleyball and table tennis alone. Compare that with the evening college's row on the same page, which runs to baseball, boxing, gymnastics, handball, judo, kabaddi, kho-kho, shooting, squash, taekwondo and volleyball. Volleyball is the only game the two share, so a kabaddi or kho-kho player applying to this address is applying to the evening college.

The extra-curricular route is finer still. The University's college-wise ECA seat matrix gives the college 20 places, of which Indian classical dance, film making, Indian vocal music and theatre take 2 each, and tabla, flute, sitar, violin, drums and bass guitar take one apiece. A sitar player is competing for a single place, and a candidate whose category is absent from the list has nothing to apply against.

M.Com. runs on a different track entirely. The college's seat matrix page states that selection for the postgraduate course is completed by the Department of Commerce at the University of Delhi, and the college admits on the basis of that selection.

Every programme this college runs carries a row in the University of Delhi's first-round allocation list for 2026-27, and reading them top to bottom is the quickest way to see what the college is actually for. Each figure records where demand ran out in that course and category once the round had settled, and it falls again as later rounds and vacant-seat rounds run.

Read the top two rows together, because they say what kind of college this is. B.Com., the programme degree rather than the honours one, closed at 820.0548 for an unreserved candidate, above every B.A. honours course on the sheet, including Political Science at 786.8712 and Economics at 776.4257. A programme degree is usually the entry an applicant parks below the honours courses as a fallback. Here it outranks all of them, and listing it as a safety net misreads the demand.

Hindi is where the demand runs out. B.A. (Hons.) Hindi closed at 344.5787 unreserved, less than half the B.Com. (Hons.) figure, and the University published no ST and no EWS score against it at all in round one, in the same allocation list. Mathematics, at 653.6787, sits well below the humanities honours it is grouped with. Two further columns in that document matter only if they apply to you: the single girl child score for B.Com. (Hons.) was 827.6593, close behind the unreserved figure, while the PwBD score for the same course was 313.9376.

The college's NIRF 2025 submission reports outcomes for three consecutive undergraduate cohorts, and the striking column is the last one.

Higher study is the majority exit here, not the alternative to one. In 2023-24 the college recorded 737 students moving into further study against 262 placements, in that same submission, which also shows the median salary moving down from 6,00,000 to 5,20,000 between the two most recent cohorts. The M.Com. line is small enough to read student by student: 10 finished in 2023-24, of whom 2 were placed, at a median of 5,75,000, and 3 continued studying. If your plan is a master's degree, a professional qualification or a competitive examination, you are joining the larger group, not the exception.

What the recruiting side looks like is a separate record, kept by the college's own placement and internship cell, and it counts offers rather than students.

LPA there means lakh rupees a year, and the two columns move independently: the season with the most offers is not the season with the biggest single package. For 2025-26 the cell reports an average CTC of 5.45 LPA and a median of 6 LPA behind that highest offer of 17 LPA, and names Bain Capability Network, Boston Consulting Group, Futures First, Deloitte and Grant Thornton among recruiters, alongside District by Zomato, Gallagher and Mohan, Ditto, VMock, Preferred Square, WTW and DeltaX. Roles went out as business analyst, audit associate, financial analyst, insurance advisor and international sales executive, across Gurugram, Noida, Bangalore and remote postings.

Internships are the larger operation. The same cell records 445 or more internships in 2025-26 at a highest stipend of 40,000, of which more than 170 came through its own drives with Deloitte USI, KPMG, Magicpin, Farmley and Hitachi among the organisations involved. The rest came through Internovate, a fair the college ran for the first time in February, which drew more than 75 companies, 40 or more of them offline and 45 or more online, over 1000 registrations from across the University of Delhi, and produced internships for more than 275 students. Stipends there ran from 5,000 to over 25,000 a month, averaging 15,000.

The University of Delhi publishes this college's sanctioned intake course by course and category by category, and the distribution below is the table to have open while you order preferences.

One row dwarfs the rest. B.Com. (Hons.) holds 194 unreserved places in that matrix where Geography, Hindi, History, Political Science and Mathematics hold 24 each. Seat count works against intuition here: a course with more places reaches further down the merit list before it shuts, which ought to pull its closing score down. B.Com. (Hons.) holds the most seats in the college and still closed at its highest score, so that figure is a statement about how many people wanted the course, not about how few places there were.

Two courses have grown and one route has contracted. Economics and English now hold 35 unreserved places each against 24 on the older matrix the college still hosts on its own seat matrix page, while the B.A. Programme pairs, once six combinations, are down to two carrying 11 unreserved places apiece. The intake the college reports for itself is a different number from the matrix above, and it covers earlier years: 1,192 undergraduate places in each of 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 plus 25 postgraduate ones, in its NIRF 2025 submission, which its annual quality return adds together as 1,217 sanctioned seats for 2023-24, with 587 students admitted from reserved categories that year. The sports and extra-curricular places are supernumerary and sit above every count on this page.

The Ministry of Education's NIRF 2025 college ranking places Shaheed Bhagat Singh College 39th in India on a score of 61.55. Break that composite into its parts and the college turns out to be two very different institutions at once.

Perception at 7.18 is the number to sit with. It measures what academics and employers say when asked to name colleges, and on the same table Hindu College scores 96.08 on it and Lady Shri Ram College For Women scores 100.00. Shaheed Bhagat Singh College still finishes ahead of several Delhi colleges with far louder names because of what its graduates do: its graduation outcomes score of 75.96 runs above Gargi College at 68.89 and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College at 65.64, both of which are ranked above it overall. For an applicant, that combination is useful rather than worrying. The college is measured well on the things that happen to its students and poorly on how widely it is talked about, and only one of those turns up on a transcript.

The climb is recent, which is part of why the name has not caught up. The college's own prospectus records the 39th place as a move up from a previous rank band of 101 to 150, and adds three other listings for the same period: 27th in the BA (Arts) category and 31st in Commerce in the India Today Best Colleges Survey for 2025-26, a place among the top 10 colleges in India for B.A. (Hons.) Hindi in the India Today 2026 ranking, and 22nd nationally with 15th in Delhi in the EducationWorld Higher Education Rankings 2026.

The departments page lists Commerce, Economics, Environmental Science, English, Geography, Hindi, History, Mathematics and Political Science, and the prospectus adds a B.A. Programme department and a Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences that teach across those degrees rather than owning one.

Commerce is the centre of gravity. It is the largest department in the college, it teaches B.Com. (Hons.), B.Com., the Commerce and Mathematics pair and M.Com., and it has published the Journal of Business Studies, a peer-reviewed journal, for over 36 years, according to the 2026-27 prospectus. It ran the 13th International Conference on Business and Management on 6th February 2026, sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Its student bodies are where a commerce applicant will actually spend time, and the prospectus names five: the Commerce Association, running since 2009, the Marketing Society, Ardent for data analytics and financial modelling, a chapter of 180 Degrees Consulting that takes live projects for non-profits and social enterprises, and a Supply Chain Management Society.

Two departments are worth knowing about for opposite reasons. Environmental Studies was set up in 2023 with three permanent assistant professors and teaches undergraduate courses in environmental science without awarding a degree of its own. Geography does award one, and it is the department with the equipment: remote sensing and digital cartography laboratories, and a Semester VI field trip that ran from 2nd to 8th October 2025 through Manali and the Lahaul region up to Baralacha Pass, both described in the same prospectus. If fieldwork is what you want out of an undergraduate degree, that is the course on this campus that provides it.

The teaching estate has grown between the two most recent documents that describe it. In 2023-24 the college recorded 53 classrooms with WiFi or LAN, 18 classrooms and seminar halls with ICT facilities and 223 computers on campus in its quality return. By the 2026-27 prospectus that had grown to 11 computer laboratories, three of them geography laboratories fitted with remote sensing and digital cartography equipment, five seminar rooms, a video conferencing committee room seating 35 to 40, and two air-conditioned activity rooms on the third floor. The college also runs an academic auditorium seating 230 and an open-air auditorium seating around 500, insulated with rock wool and cooled by high volume low speed fans.

The reading hall is where the college has made its most student-visible change. General library hours are 08:00 am to 04:30 pm Monday to Friday, but the reading hall runs 08:00 am to 12:00 am from Monday to Saturday, 08:00 am to 10:00 pm on Sunday and 08:00 am to 08:00 pm on gazetted holidays; on those Sundays and holidays the hall itself closes and the seating shifts to the third-floor activity rooms. Catalogue search runs on a web OPAC and e-resources come through N List, the Delhi University Library System and a One Nation One Subscription licence, and the prospectus adds a Sugamya Pustakalaya subscription for readers with print disabilities.

The rest of the campus is ordinary in the useful way. There are more than 90 CCTV cameras, five computer laboratories in B-Block holding more than 145 machines, and smart boards with LAN in the C-Block rooms, per the college's IT infrastructure page. A medical room at the entrance of the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Block keeps a doctor and a nurse on site, and a counsellor takes online appointments on Tuesdays and in-person appointments on Thursdays, free to everyone in the college. A Union Bank of India branch, a canteen, a Mother Dairy booth and a girls' common room sit on campus, and an in-house ERP called Saksham carries attendance, internal assessment marks and notices. The building work queued for 2026-27 is substantial: a multipurpose hall with indoor courts, a full-sized cricket ground with floodlights, a football ground, an open-air gymnasium, an extra-curricular activities complex, an outdoor amphitheatre and more than 20 new classrooms and laboratories.

The college has no residence of its own. Its infrastructure chapter runs from smart classrooms through the auditoriums, the laboratories, the bank and the canteen to the dairy booth without listing a hostel, and none appears anywhere on the college website. That absence lands harder here than the bare fact suggests: 2,895 of the 3,883 undergraduates counted in its NIRF submission come from outside the state, so most of this college's students are already paying for somewhere to live. An applicant from another state should price private accommodation or a paying guest arrangement in south Delhi into the decision from the start, and should ask the admission office directly about University hostel eligibility rather than assuming a college place carries one.

The college ran 166 full-time teachers against 170 sanctioned posts in 2023-24, of whom 104 held a doctorate, according to its quality return for that year. The same return counts 55 classrooms and seminar halls all told, against the 3,883 undergraduates the NIRF submission records for the same period. Four posts stood unfilled, and the return does not say how the teaching against them was covered.

Those teachers are not evenly spread. The Commerce department's faculty list in the prospectus runs to a full page, longer than any other department's, which is the staffing consequence of a college built around one subject. Prof. Arun Kumar Attree is the principal, and the Commerce list is where his own name appears. He sits on the governing body as member secretary; for 2025-26 its chairperson was Prof. Ananya Ghosh Dastidar and its treasurer Prof. Anu Gupta Aggarwal. Research sits in named centres rather than in departments alone, among them a Centre for Disaster Management Studies and a Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems.

The college is in Sheikh Sarai in south Delhi, and its published contact details are below.

Fee amounts, allocation results and vacant-seat notices all move during the admission cycle, and they move on two different sites. Scores, seat matrices and round notices belong to the University and appear on admission.uod.ac.in; the fee notice, the prospectus and the admission coordinators to contact belong to the college and appear on sbs.du.ac.in. Watching only one of the two is how applicants miss a round.

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