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{{Infobox university
| name = Hansraj College
| motto = ''Tamaso Maॅ Jyotira Gamaya''
| mottoeng = ''From darkness, lead me to light.''
| established = {{start date and age|1948}}
| type = [[public university|Public]]
| principal = Dr. Rama <ref>{{cite web |title=Hansraj College - University of Delhi |url=https://www.hansrajcollege.ac.in/administration.php |website=www.hansrajcollege.ac.in |access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref>
| undergraduate students = 
| postgrad = 
| nickname = HRC, Hansraj
| country = India
| affiliations = [[University of Delhi]]
| city = [[New Delhi]]
| state = [[Delhi]]
| campus = Mahatma Hans Raj Marg, Malka Ganj, North Campus, University of Delhi-110007
| website = {{url|https://www.hansrajcollege.ac.in/}}
| image = Hans Raj College.jpg
}}

'''Hansraj College''' is a constituent college of the [[University of Delhi]], in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]. The departments of Hansraj college includes [[science]], [[liberal arts]] and [[commerce]].

==History==
The college was founded on 26 July 1948 in memory of the prominent Indian educator and nationalist [[Mahatma Hansraj]]. Initially started as an institution for men, the college became co-educational in 1978. With over 3,000 students, it is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hansrajcollege.co.in/aboutus.htm|title=About Hansraj|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213133148/http://www.hansrajcollege.co.in/aboutus.htm|archive-date=13 December 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> For years Hans Raj College has been ranked among the Top-10 colleges of India in all three disciplines.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collegesearch.in/colleges/article/best-arts-colleges-in-india-2019-3452-70|title=Best Arts Colleges in India 2019|publisher=Collegesearch.in|date=31 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Photo/3306/3/photo20/India/best-commerce-colleges-in-india,-2010.html |title=Best Commerce Colleges in India, 2010 - | Photo20 | India Today | |publisher=Indiatoday.intoday.in |access-date=2013-01-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Photo/3304/3/photo6/India/best-arts-colleges-in-india,-2010.html |title=Best Arts Colleges in India, 2010 - | Photo6 | India Today | |publisher=Indiatoday.intoday.in |access-date=2013-01-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Photo/3307/3/photo17/India/best-science-colleges-in-india,-2010.html |title=Best Science Colleges in India, 2010 - | Photo17 | India Today | |publisher=Indiatoday.intoday.in |access-date=2013-01-01}}</ref> At the celebration of its 69th Foundation Day, Naveen Jindal, industrialist and alumnus, announced that Hans Raj College would become the first college to hoist the national flag on its premises.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The college hoisted the Monumental Flag on 25 January 2017 which happens to be the second Monumental Flagpole in Delhi after CP. The flag was hoisted by MP Naveen Jindal, an alumnus of the college and founder of Flag Foundation of India (FFOI).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/delhi/with-115-ft-tall-tricolour-hans-raj-high-on-r-day/amp_articleshow/56786711.cms |title=Monumental Flagpole in Hansraj College - | Photo17 | India Today | |work= The Times Of India |access-date=2017-01-25}}</ref>

==Ranking==
It was ranked at 4th best by ''India Today'' in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/bestcolleges/2017/commerce-bestcollege|title=DIRECTORY OF BEST COLLEGES 2017: COMMERCE {{!}} IndiaToday|website=www.indiatoday.in|access-date=2019-12-02}}</ref>

==Academics==

The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various streams. These are B.A, B.A (Hons), B.Sc, B.Sc (Hons) and B.Com (Hons) at the UG level. And M.A, M.Sc and M.Com at the PG level.

It also offers job-oriented add-on certificate courses. These include: [[Radio Personality|Radio Jockeying]], [[Peace Journalism|Anchoring]] & [[Broadcast Journalism|TV Journalism]]; [[Acting]] and [[Filmmaking]]; [[Mass Communication]], [[Advertising]] & [[Marketing]]. <ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.hansrajcollege.ac.in/academics/courses/filmmedia.php| title= HRC now offers job-oriented add-on certificate courses.}}</ref>

The college receives support under the strengthening component in relation to the Star College initiative of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.<ref name="DBT Star">{{Cite web |date=2020-07-03 |title=Star College Scheme for Strengthening of UG Science. |url=http://dbtindia.gov.in/schemes-programmes/building-capacities/teaching/star-college-scheme-strengthening-ug-science}}</ref> In addition to this, the college has worked on the future publication of the research journal "''Hans Shodh Shikhar''" to publish research in fields across the sciences, commerce and arts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-03 |title=About Hans Shodh Shikhar |url=https://www.hansrajcollege.ac.in/researchinnovation/researchjournal}}</ref> The Finance and Economics Research Cell of the college also conducts programs to promote undergraduate research in these fields.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-03 |title=The Finance and Economics Research Cell |url=https://www.ferchansraj.org/about-us}}</ref>

==Admission process==
Hansraj College undergoes the standard admissions process of the University of Delhi. In order to apply to this college for an undergraduate course, the student has to fill out a central form that is released by the university itself. After a few weeks of the deadline of the forms, Delhi University publicly releases cut off lists for each individual course for all of the undergraduate courses across the university.

A student wishing to apply for a course at Hansraj can look at the cut-off and matches his or her 12th-grade percentage with the same. If the 12th-grade percentage is equal to or greater than the percentage in the cut-off, the student is eligible. Generally, the cutoff percentage lies at ~97% in the 12th Class Finals.

==Sports==
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The college has facilities for both outdoor and indoor games. It has a sports ground and a Basketball court between the college and the hostel premises. It also possess an indoor badminton court and an indoor shooting range. The student have won University, State and National level championships in Pistol Shooting, Archery(W), Water Polo, Basketball, Badminton, Cricket etc. The College won the Chancellor's Trophy in 2003-2004, 2004-2005 and for last four academic sessions from 2011 to 2015 for overall excellence in sports. Sport facilities are made available to all students under the program : Games For All.

==Notable alumni==
<gallery>
File:Shah Rukh Khan graces the launch of the new Santro.jpg| [[Shah Rukh Khan]], actor
File:Anurag Kashyap Udaan Press meet.jpg|[[Anurag Kashyap]], filmmaker
</gallery>

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* [[Anurag Kashyap (director)|Anurag Kashyap]]{{spaced ndash}}filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, actor
* [[Abhinandan Sekhri]]{{spaced ndash}}entrepreneur, journalist
* [[Abhinav Kashyap]]{{spaced ndash}}filmmaker
* [[Aditya Jha]]{{spaced ndash}}entrepreneur
* [[Ajay Maken]]{{spaced ndash}}former MP, former Sports Minister
* [[Anil Aggrawal]]{{spaced ndash}}forensic pathologist
* [[Aarti Bajaj]]{{spaced ndash}}film editor
* [[Palash Sen]]{{spaced ndash}}actor, musician
* [[Gunjan Saxena]]{{spaced ndash}}flight lieutenant Gunjan Saxena is the first woman Indian Air Force (IAF) officer to enter a war zone.
* [[Gopal Subramaniam]]{{spaced ndash}}[[Solicitor General of India]]
* [[Jai Prakash Agarwal]]{{spaced ndash}}Member of Parliament, Chairman House Committee, LS Indian Political Party-Congress Party
* [[Kabir Sadanand]]{{spaced ndash}}actor, director
* [[Kiren Rijiju]]{{spaced ndash}}MP, union minister<ref name=lok>{{cite web| title=Fourteenth Lok Sabha: Members Bioprofile| publisher=Lok Sabha| url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3972| access-date=2014-05-28| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529071136/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3972| archive-date=29 May 2014| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Kushal Tandon]]{{spaced ndash}}actor<ref>{{cite web |url=https://indianexpress.com/about/kushal-tandon/ |website=indianexpress.com |access-date=9 August 2020}}</ref>
* [[Rajesh Khattar]]{{spaced ndash}}actor
* [[Munish Chandra Puri]]{{spaced ndash}}mathematician Harsh Sambher(writer and philosopher)
* [[Partha Dasgupta]]{{spaced ndash}}Frank Ramsey Professor (Economics), [[Cambridge University]]
* [[Parvin Dabas]]{{spaced ndash}}actor
* [[Pavan Malhotra]]{{spaced ndash}}actor<ref>{{cite web | title = "If people remember my characters more than my name, it's my success as an actor," says Pavan Malhotra |work= Hindustan Times, Brunch | url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/if-people-remember-my-characters-more-than-my-name-it-s-my-success-as-an-actor-says-pavan-malhotra/story-X7Z93OwCHpsMcnXplT42ZM.html |author=Aasheesh Sharma|date=January 16, 2016| access-date = 2016-01-17 }}</ref>
* [[Rannvijay Singh]]{{spaced ndash}}actor, [[VJ (media personality)|VJ]] [[MTV India]]
* [[Raveesh Kumar]]{{spaced ndash}}diplomat, [[Ministry of External Affairs (India)|Ministry of External Affairs]] spokesperson
* [[Richard Rekhy]]{{spaced ndash}}Chief Executive Officer of KPMG in India<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kpmg.com/in/en/about/pages/leadershipteam.aspx|title=Richard did his B.Com from Hansraj College and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the year 1983}}</ref>
* [[Rohan Mehra]]{{spaced ndash}}actor, model
* [[Sangeeta Malhotra]]{{spaced ndash}}astrophysicist
* [[Sabyasachi Chakrabarty]]{{spaced ndash}}actor
* [[Sandeep Chaudhary]]{{spaced ndash}}para-athlete<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jain |first1=Shraishth |title=Javelin para-athlete Sandeep Choudhary qualifies for World Championships with best throw of 2017 |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/athletics/javelin-para-athlete-sandeep-choudhary-registers-worlds-best-throw-2017-qualifies-for-world-championship |website=www.sportskeeda.com |access-date=4 July 2021 |language=en-us |date=9 May 2017}}</ref>
* [[Shah Rukh Khan]]{{spaced ndash}}actor
* [[Sheeba Chadha]]{{spaced ndash}}actress
* [[Shiney Ahuja]]{{spaced ndash}}actor
* [[Susmit Sen]]{{spaced ndash}}musician, [[Indian Ocean (band)|Indian Ocean]]
* [[Tarsem Singh]]{{spaced ndash}}[[Hollywood film industry|Hollywood]] director
* [[Vijay Kumar Malhotra]]{{spaced ndash}}politician BJP Indian Political Party
* [[Vinod Dua]]{{spaced ndash}}journalist
* [[Sushil Kumar (biologist)]]{{spaced ndash}}geneticist and [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] recipient
* [[V. K. Dadhwal]]{{spaced ndash}}ISRO scientist Harsh Sambher (writer and trainer)
* [[Pallavi Joshi]]{{spaced ndash}}film and television actress (of Bharat Ek Khoj Fame)

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==See also==
* [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]], New Delhi
* [[Lady Shri Ram College for Women]], New Delhi

==References==
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