Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College


Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Established in 1951, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutes for science, commerce and arts in India.
In 2018, the highest admission cut-off was 99.66 per cent for B.Sc in Electronics in SGTB Khalsa College. In the humanities stream, Khalsa College had set the highest cut-off at 99 per cent for BA in Political Science.
The college has 59 classrooms, 19 labs, 6 research labs, indoor and outdoor sports facilities, gymnasium, cafeteria, bank, and medical facilities in proximity, besides other utility services such as post-office and market. The college is well connected by road and Delhi Metro link, and majority students are day-scholars. A hostel for girls can accommodate 147 students, and a hostel for boys is planned to come up soon.
The infrastructure of the college is one of the best in the university with air-conditioned classrooms with projection facilities and Internet, campus-wide wired as well as a wireless network having Internet connectivity, with 24x7 Internet in campus and an overall computer-student ratio of 1 : 2.95.

Rankings

It is ranked 30th across india by National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020.

History

Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, a constituent college of the University of Delhi, was established in 1951 and has been, since, maintained by Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, a statutory body established under an act of the Parliament of India. The focus of the college at the time of inception was to ensure a comprehensive social transformation through access to quality education, in particular to young Punjabi refugees of partition in 1947, and to conserve and promote Punjabi language, culture, and heritage. The college is named after the Ninth Guru of Sikhism Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur, who sacrificed his life to uphold secular values and is an institution with the cosmopolitan environment and progressive outlook.
Khalsa College is a constituent of the University of Delhi. The college began in four rooms in a school in Dev Nagar with 49 students and a faculty of 6. It moved to its present location in 1973.

Placement

The Placement Cell of Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College is a full-fledged training and placement cell which periodically liaises and interacts with the corporate world in order to explore the possibility of training and job placement of students. Apart from bringing a varied list of recruiters to the campus, the Placement Cell organises talks, study abroad seminars, internship opportunities and workshops for the collective student body. Training and Placement Cell of the college provides following facilities at the college premises.
  1. Conducting mock personal interviews and group discussions to make students aware of the selection procedures
  2. Summer industrial training, internship and final placement of students.
  3. Conducting industrial visits and industry-oriented training programmes.
  4. Invite professional guest speakers to impart necessary inputs for the above-mentioned activities.

    Major recruiters

Major companies visit the campus at the annual placement drive wherein the average package ranges from 20 to 25 thousand per month. Some of the major recruiters at Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College are as follows:
E&Y, KPMG, Deloitte, PWC, Zomato, SBI, Grant Thorton, TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, IBM Daksh, Genpact, ICICI Prudential, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Protiviti and Housing.com.

Programmes

Over the years, the college has carved a niche for itself and is known to be one of the leading colleges of university. At present, there are 18 undergraduate programmes, two B.Tech. programmes, 12 postgraduate programmes, one postgraduate diploma, two undergraduate diplomas, and 9 certificate courses, making a total of 44 programmes. As of the session 2015–16, there were 3,768 students in these programmes, and 140 full-time teachers, out of which 101 permanent. During last four years, 57 teachers participated in various staff-development programmes.
The college offers the following courses:
The college has a spacious playing field for hockey, cricket, and football, and facilities for indoor games like table tennis, carom, and chess, as well as a mini gymnasium. The Sant Harchand Singh Longowal Sports Complex consists of a gymnasium. A squash racket room, three table tennis rooms, and changing rooms for players are also in this complex. The college has a floodlit lawn tennis court. The Khalsa Tennis Academy has been set up to utilize the infrastructure and nurture fresh talents, supervised under former Indian Davis Cup player Balram Singh. The college, along with Ramjas College and Shri Ram College of Commerce, was one of the rugby training venues for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

College societies

Academic societies

The college magazine, The Tegh, consists of English, Hindi and Punjabi sections.

Co-curricular and extracurricular societies

The college has undertaken projects in the field of ciliate zoology and has reported new species of protozoans from Northeast India. It collaborates with the Natural History Museum, London and University of Camerino.
It offers a dual credential programs in collaboration with University of the Fraser Valley and Avans.

Notable alumni