Dev Samaj College for Women Chandigarh was established in 1981 before shifting to its present location, it was being run in the Dev Samaj Secondary School. The college moved to its present location in 1995. The college is being run by Dev Samaj Group (founded by Bhagwan Dev Atma) with an aim of promoting higher education among the women and uplifting their social and moral values in the society.
The motto of the College is “Acquire Knowledge, Build Character” that gives
.....Continuing reading importance to moral values with addition of knowledge. The College always gives emphasis on over all development of woman's personality that helps her to be a good daughter, sister, wife and mother. Dev Samaj College for Women Chandigarh is located in sector 45-b Chandigarh. The college has a four-storied building spread over an area of 8.05 acres. It has spacious library with well stocked books, journals and magazines.
Dev Samaj College for Women Chandigarh has one of the best hostels in Chandigarh that is a home for more than 200 girl students. The hostel is fully furnished rooms. Besides this, the college has huge mess which serves hygienic food.
Sports ground, Seminar hall, internet cafe, canteen, gym, and multimedia room are the few more facilities which are given to students by the college. The Campus has 5 fully air conditioned computer labs consisting of 200 computers with internet facility that helps to enhance the knowledge of the students. Dev Samaj College for Women Chandigarh also offers many indoor and outdoor games that help the students to make them strong, both mentally and physically.
Among Indoor Games College offers Table Tennis, Weight Lifting, Power Lifting, Yoga, Badminton, Shooting, Wrestling, Gymnastics and Boxing. Cycling, Lawn Tennis, Handball, Basketball, Netball, Ball Badminton, Kho-Kho, Archery and Kabaddi are the outdoor games, offered by the campus. Dev Samaj College for Woman Chandigarh, offers M.A. in Economics, PGDCA (Computer Application), PGDFD (Fashion Designing), Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce with Hons, Bachelor of Computer Application, Bachelor of Business administration and B.Sc (IT). Apart from these courses, it also offers few add on courses such as Cosmetology, Event Management, Communicative Functional English, Advertising and Sales Management, Computer Based Accounting, Web Designing and Multimedia Development, Entrepreneurship, Insurance Business and Animation &Graphics.
Coming to Career Guidance and Placement Cell of Dev Samaj College for Woman Chandigarh, it is well known for its Placement cell that has placed more than 400 students in reputed companies such as Wipro-Delhi, IBM-Gurgaon, Genpact-Delhi, Infosys, Wipro, Genpact, Infosys(Software), Accenture-IT, CSC-IT, Infosys Software, Wipro, CSC, IBM Daksh, Wipro BPO and IBM Daksh.....Reading in short