Delhi Technological University (DTU) began in 1941 as Delhi Polytechnic at the Kashmere Gate campus in Delhi and later became Delhi College of Engineering. The college was affiliated to the University of Delhi from 1952 and was handed to the Delhi Administration in 1963. From July 2009 it became Delhi Technological University under Delhi Act 6 of 2009.
The institution moved in 1996 to a 164-acre campus on Bawana Road, adjoining Sector 17, Rohini. It offers 21 undergraduate and 36 postgraduate programmes, as well as PhD programmes, in science, engineering, management and allied areas, and its history page states that it has 14,000 students on campus. Its departments include engineering and applied science disciplines and the Delhi School of Management, and its website lists an East Delhi Campus.