The University of Delhi was established in 1922 as a unitary, teaching and residential university by an Act of the then Central Legislative Assembly, starting with three colleges and 750 students. The President of India is its Visitor, the Vice-President its Chancellor and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India its Pro-Chancellor, according to its overview page.
The page says it now has 16 faculties, over 80 academic departments, an equal number of colleges and over seven lakh students. A South Campus was set up in 1973 and moved to its present 69 acre site on Benito Juarez Road in 1984. Prof. Yogesh Singh assumed charge as Vice Chancellor on 8 October 2021.