इसके संकाय द्वारा श्रेष्ठ शैक्षिक और शोध योगदानो के कारण यू. जी. सी. ने दिल्ली विश्‍वविद्यालय को उच्च अध्ययन वाले सबसे अधिक केन्द्रो में चिह्नित किया है ये केन्द्र वनस्पतिशास्त्र, रसायनशास्त्र, अर्थशास्त्र, भौतिकी, समाजशास्त्र, और जीव विज्ञान के क्षेत्र में हैमानवशास्त्र, बौद्व अध्ययन, दर्शनशास्त्र, रसायनशास्त्र, वाणिज्य, अर्थशास्त्र, अँग्रेजी, फाइनाशियल स्टडीज, भूगोल, भूगर्भशास्त्र, अनुवांशिकी, इतिहास, विधि, भाषा- विज्ञान, गणित, संगीत, वनस्पति-अणिवकी जीवशास्त्र, राजनीतिशास्त्र, मनोविज्ञान, समाजकार्य, समाजशास्त्र और सांखियकी विभाग यू. जी. सी. द्वारा प्राप्तकर्ता के लिए विशेष सहयोग कार्यक्रम चला रही है जो उनके विशिपट शैक्षिक द्क्षता की दृष्टि हेतु है वनस्पतिशास्त्र, रसायन, भूगर्भ-शास्त्र, गणित, भौतिकी और जीव विज्ञान विभाग सी.ओ.एस.आई.एस.टी. कार्यक्रम के अंतर्गत सहयोग प्रदान कर रही है

उच्च शिक्षा व्यसायिक विकास केन्द्र, विज्ञान शिक्षा और संचार केन्द्र, विकासशील देश शोध केन्द्र और महिला अध्ययन और विकास केन्द्र सभी यू. जी. सी. के द्वारा विशेष अनुदान पाते है

विश्वविद्यालय ने अंत्तर्शिक्षण अध्ययन बोर्ड के अंतर्गत विभिन्न शोध और विकास केन्द्र स्थापित किए है ताकि समाज संबंधित मुद्दे और विभिन्न शैक्षिक विभागो और व्यापार, उद्योग राष्टीय शोध प्रयोगशालाओ के बीच अच्छी समझ और पारस्परिक क्रिया को बढावा दिया जा सके ! दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के पास विभिन्न विषयों में शोध और उच्च शिक्षा का गौरवशाली परंपरा रहा है ! विश्वविद्यालय के विभिन्न संकायों में यू. जी. सी. के कई विशेष सहायता प्राप्त और उच्च शिक्षा के विभाग हैं ! यू. जी. सी. इन विभागों के नवीं और दसवीं योजना में सहायता करती आ रही है ! मानव संसाधन मंत्रालय द्वारा उच्च शिक्षा अध्ययन संस्थान (आइ. ए. एस. ई.) और मौलाना आजाद प्रारंभिक और सामाजिक शिक्षा केन्द्र (एम. ए. सी. एस.ई.) शिक्षा - विभाग का विस्तार है ! ये संस्थान भारत सरकार ने तब स्थापित किया जब यू. जी. सी. ने आई. ए. एस. ई. योजना के अंतर्गत संकायों की स्थिति प्रस्तुत किया और नवीं योजना अवधि के आधार पर विश्वविद्यालय के लिए भरणपोषण अनुदान के लिए राज़ी कर लिया! जबकि पुराने विज्ञान विभाग अपने संबंधित क्षेत्र में नेतृत्वकर्ता के रूप में अपनी पहचान को बनाये हुये है ! कुछ नये विभाग, विशेषकर प्राणी विज्ञान में अत्यधिक अग्रगामी वैज्ञानिक कार्य और इसके प्रयोग के लिए पुरस्कार प्राप्त किया है

विज्ञान्
पिछ्ले पाँच वर्षो से विभिन्न महत्वपूर्ण नये शोध प्रोजेक्ट प्रगति में है ! उनमें से कुछ ज्ञान क्षेत्र में महत्वपूर्ण योगदान दे रही है ! विज्ञान विभाग इस विषय खासतौर से सक्रिय है ! वनस्पति आणिवकी जीवशास्त्र के वैज्ञानिक चावल जीनोम क्रम के अंर्तराष्टीय संघ में सफल भागीदारी की है ! प्रोजेक्ट में राष्टीय स्तर पर जैवप्रौद्योगिकी विभाग, भारत सरकार द्वारा धन प्रदान किया गया !

The Department of Plant Molecular Biology is currently involved in sequencing a non-pathogenic Mycobacterium strain for developing a vaccine in the long run.

The Department of Biochemistry successfully developed a test to detect HIV (AIDS) in a drop of blood. The Naked Eye Visible Agglutination assay or NEVA is an instrumentation free test with no need of electricity, and is one of the very few tests in the world that can be performed on whole blood, even from a finger prick. The technology of NEVA HIV has won several awards. The Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants and Department of Genetics at the University of Delhi South Campus have developed two hybrids in mustard DMH-1 and DMH-11 which have, on an average, 30% more of productivity over the best national varieties of mustard. These hybrids are currently being tested in farmer.s field. The commercial production of the hybrid seed will begin from the year 2006. The research on development of these hybrids has been supported by the National Dairy Development Board.

Scientists at the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) have been involved in the development of site-specific and locality-specific restoration technologies for the revegetation of highly degraded landscapes such as morrum mined-out areas, overburden dumps of Bhatti mines and extremely desertified land of the Asola wildlife sanctuary in Delhi. The technology package developed has now been transferred to the Department of Forests of the Government of Delhi. CEMDE provides the necessary training to the ecotaskforce established by the Department of Forests, and also gives assistance with regard to the inputs needed for the rehabilitation programme. CEMDE has collaborated with the Delhi Development Authority in the establishment and maintenance of the Yamuna Biodiversity Park and the Aravalli Biodiversity Park, which are meant to recreate and preserve the lost natural heritage of Delhi. The mission of these Biodiversity Parks is to serve as repository and heritage of the biodiversity of the Yamuna river basin and the Aravalli ranges, with ecological, cultural and educational benefits to society.

Scientists at the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) have developed a bio-diesel that can be used as fuel for passenger cars. The design of high capacity bio-diesel reactors of up to 2000 litres is in progress. Another DCE innovation in the energy sector is the development of a liquid nitrogen fuelled reciprocating engine. One of the important recent achievements of the scientists in the Department of Chemistry, who have been doing extensive research in the development of nanoparticles-based drug delivery technologies, is the development of a reverse micelles based process for the synthesis of hydrogel and .smart. hydrogel nanoparticles for encapsulating water-soluble drugs. This technology has been patented in India and the US. This laboratory has also developed an ophthalmic formulation of NSAID drugs for which it has got patents in India and the US. The group is now working on nanotechnologies which have applications in enzyme therapy, treatment for leukemia, and a drug-less therapeutic process without side-effects, for cancer. The Department of Chemistry has recently created an LCT Mass Spectrometric facility under the FIST programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The Department of Geology has been actively engaged in many thrust areas of research in earth sciences. A Leica Workstation DMRX with image analysis system with provision for polarising transmitted and reflected light microscopy, differential interference contrast, phase contrast microscopy, digital photography and quantitative analysis have been installed recently in the Department.

The Department of Botany has been contributing significantly in several areas of plant sciences, particularly in the assessment of genetic diversity at the molecular level and understanding morpho-genetic phenomena in different groups of plants. Under the FIST programme, the Department has acquired a Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope. This facility gives a fillip to research in structural biology.

The Department of Mathematics is known for its recent contributions in Analysis, such as Spectral Synthesis in hypergroups, quotient rings of algebras of functions and operators, role of orthogonal polynomials in differential equations, Sobolev inequalities, matrix ordered spaces, bounded mean oscillation spaces, Hardy inequalities, tensor products of operator spaces, Riemann-Hilbert problem, and in other areas such as group-explicit methods in parallel programming and optimization techniques. The Department has set up recently a laboratory with modern computation facility.

The VP Chest Institute is a constituent of the University specializing in research and higher learning in pulmonary medicine. The Institute went through a phase, during the last five years, of modernizing their research facilities. A s t a t e -of -th e - art Animal House was commissioned.