Sri Venkateswara College - SVC Delhi, University of Delhi was founded in 1961 by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. The keystone for the construction of a full-fledged building was laid on August 20, 1961. The college is spread over 15 acres of land at Dhaula Kuan, Delhi.
Sri Venkateswara College - SVC Delhi provides hostel accommodation for students. The residential hostel, set up in 2008, is sited within the College Campus and has two wings, one for boys and girls. The
.....Continuing reading hostel is a four-storied building with 72 rooms, 36 in each wing and each room accommodates two students. The rooms are comfortably furnished with beds, mattresses, pillows, reading tables and chairs for each resident. There is sufficient storage space in the cupboard provided to each student. Other amenities provided in the hostel are: a reading room, a Table Tennis room, a recreation/common room in each wing. Due to the limited availability of rooms, admission to the hostel is granted on academic merit. The college has extremely limited number of hostel seats for first year students, so candidates are requested to note that residence facilities are not extended to them automatically.
Sri Venkateswara College - SVC Delhi has seen some great developments since its inception. The college began in a school building of the Andhra Education Society at Rouse Avenue, New Delhi with 273 students and 13 staff members and moved into its own spacious buildings in Dhaula Kuan in 1971. Currently, the College has 2500 students approximately on its rolls, offers more than a score of different courses in the Humanities, Commerce and Science disciplines with 231 teaching and non-teaching staff. Apart from the formal academic courses, the college also offers 3 Vocational courses and several short-term add-on courses. The College offers 11 Masters Courses for study.
With this versatile profile, Sri Venkateswara College - SVC Delhi is known for its potential and hailed as a centre of excellence in the field of education. The placement cell of Sri Venkateswara College - SVC Delhi has taken upon itself the difficult yet fulfilling task of assisting the students to enhance their career prospect by providing them need based and result-oriented training programmes that help them achieve their goals. This process is done through modern training facilities and innovative methodology and by providing career guidance to students, co-ordination with prospective external agencies/industries/companies. The Placement cell is headed by a committee. This committee exerts itself in order to maintain the high level of interaction enjoyed by the companies with the students. Therefore, they help the students to develop successful job strategies and career wise decision-making and other skills commensurate with the expectations of the industry.
A good collection of reference books and relevant articles are available for purposes of understanding the scope of operations better. The members in charge are available at all times to respond to students questions and concerns including advice on placement procedures help with preparation of applications, curriculum vitae and reference letters etc.....Reading in short