Academics, sports top priority for DAV College

Bhartesh Singh Thakur

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 24

Established in 1958, DAV College, Sector 10, offering honours from third semester in the UG in chemistry and physics, English, economics, geography history, Hindi, public administration, psychology, political science, Punjabi & Sociology and Banking, Business Finance & Accounting.

The college has been allotted four research centres in the departments of chemistry, zoology, bio-technology and physics. The latest, state-of-the-art laboratories have been established to enable teachers to guide students in their research work.

About 100 students have been registered with Panjab University for research work leading to the award of PhD degree under the supervision of the college faculty.

The college has produced 69 international sports personalities such as Kapil Dev, Yuvraj Singh, Yograj, Dinesh Mongia, Jeev Milkha Singh, Irina Brar & Anjum Moudgil.

“Students who get higher education are a privileged class in our country, particularly those who have the opportunity of studying in some outstanding institution as this college. These words were spoken about our college by Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, when she visited it in 1984,” said Dr BC Josan, Principal DAV College.

Courses offered

UG programmes No. of Seats 

(General) 

BA 1000

B.Com 280

B.C.A. 120

B.B.A. 120

B.Sc. (Med) 180

B.Sc. (Non-med) 400

B.Sc. (Hons) Biotech 25

B. Voc Degree in 50 

Medical Lab Technology 

B.Voc Degree in 50

Food Science and Technology

B.A., B.Ed. (Integrated) 25

B.Sc., B.Ed. (Integrated) 25

PG degrees  Commerce

M.Com 80

M.Com (Business Economics) 40

Humanities 

MA (English) 60

MA (Economics) 60

MA (Psychology) 40

MA (Pub Adm) 60

MA (Sociology) 60

Science & Technology 

MSc Biotechnology 40

MSc Chemistry 40

MSc Maths 60

MSc Physics 40

MSc Zoology 40