About IP

Indraprastha College for Women is the oldest women's college of the University of Delhi and was founded in 1924 as a part of the nation-wide campaign for women's education and empowerment. Today this prestigious College has an enrolment of over 2670 students and offers a wide range of courses and activities. The College ranks in the top ten Arts colleges of the city and the top twenty in the country.

Under the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP),  the College offers Discipline I courses in Computer Science, Commerce, Economics, English, Hindi, History, Journalism and Mass Communication, Music, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Sanskrit. It boasts of an excellent faculty and a very helpful support staff. The College values the classroom experience and interaction. It follows a strict attendance policy within the framework and rules of the University of Delhi.

In its drive to constantly upgrade material and human resources to meet the demands of a modern system of education and realize its own vision, the College has regularly added new facilities to provide a comfortable working environment for its faculty and students. Full power back-up has been provided in the College to ensure that all activities are carried out without interruption. In an ongoing endeavor to create a disabled-friendly environment, the College is completely barrier - free. Special toilets, a lift in the library, ramps and markers for the visually-challenged, are provided for the differently-abled. Customized software and reading materials in Braille for the visually-challenged are available in the Library.

The College has an auditorium, a state-of-the-art conference and seminar rooms and an Audio-Visual Resource Centre. There is a fully equipped studio, radio production centre, editing bays, dark rooms and equipment required for in-house training and production related to the Journalism and Mass Communication course. The College has a spacious Library with many rare books and the latest in national and international journals. The ICT Centre with 80 computers is also located in the Library.

A sprawling multi - facility sports complex offering an entire range of sports activities, a swimming pool, outdoor and indoor shooting ranges, vast playgrounds, synthetic tennis and basketball courts form part of the excellent sports infrastructure offered by the College. Sports like Archery, Aerobics, Baseball, Basketball, Softball, Volleyball, Swimming, Martial Arts, Badminton, Lawn Tennis, Squash, Table Tennis, Chess, Rifle Shooting, are some of the sports in which students excel. There is also a fitness/ training centre with the latest equipment.

The College offers various extra-curricular activities and excels in Dramatics, Dance, Debate, Choreography, Music and Fine arts. The College also runs an NCC unit and the NSS program. The Golden Key International Honour Society, the International Award for Young People are opportunities for all students who want to push their limits of achievements. The North East Society and the Foreign Students Society are actively involved in the acculturation of students from different parts of the country and the world. The College has a 26 seater bus to facilitate student transport related to all activities in the College.

The College also provides basic medical facilities to deal with minor emergencies in its medical room. There is a visiting doctor and nurse. Student counseling services are provided by a professional throughout the year. A Career Guidance and Placement Cell regularly facilitates recruitment and exposure of students to education and employment opportunities.

The College has two hostels with a total of 366 seats for outstation candidates