Template:Infobox university Kirori Mal College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Established in 1954,[1] it is located in the heart of North Campus of the university in Delhi, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the sciences, humanities and commerce. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council accredited it with a CGPA of 3.54 (A++)[2] in 2023, which is the third highest among all Delhi University colleges.[3][4] According to NIRF records, it had spent more than 300 Crores in 2021 for infrastructure development and salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff.
History
The college began as Nirmala College and was located on Delhi Road. Faced with problems relating to the staff in the period following the partition, the management of the college changed hands and the trust founded by Seth Kirori Mal took over. It shifted to its present campus on 1 February 1954.[5] The foundation stones of the college were laid down by the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad in the summer of 1955.[6] The campus infrastructure was designed by the famous architect duo Anand Apte and CSH Jhabvala.[7]
The first principal of the college was Ch. Hardwari Lal (1954–57). Kirori Mal College began its first full-fledged functioning from the academic session 1956–57. He was followed by Sarup Singh (1957–65) who later became the Professor-and-Head, Department of English, University of Delhi and then the Vice-Chancellor, DU, followed by becoming the Lt. Governor, Delhi and then the Governor of Gujarat.[8]
Kirori Mal College was one of the few institutions of the University of Delhi selected for sports training during the Commonwealth Games in 2010 which led to new facilities being created in the form of a new building and a gymnasium to facilitate sports and other activities.[9][10][11]
Rankings
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council accredited it with a CGPA of 3.54 (Template:Infobox India university rankingA++) in 2016, which is the third highest among all Delhi University colleges. The college was ranked 18th among colleges in India by the NIRF, Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2019 and 19th in 2020.[12][13] Kirori Mal College was ranked 4th among colleges in India according to the latest NIRF rankings by Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2025.[14]
Notable alumni
Template:Alumni Template:More citations needed section Kirori Mal College has a large alumni base. Notable members include:
Actors, directors and singers
- KK[15] - Playback Singer
- Amitabh Bachchan - actor
- Abhishek Banerjee - actor
- Habib Faisal - Screenwriter and Director
- Satish Kaushik[16] - actor, director
- Ravi Baswani - film actor
- Siddharth - actor
- Prashant Narayanan - actor
- Sanam Puri - singer
- Shakti Kapoor - actor and comedian
- Vijay Raaz - film actor
- Divyendu Sharma - actor
- Sushant Singh - film and television actor
- Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub - actor
- Ali Abbas Zafar - director
- Vijay Krishna Acharya - screenwriter and director
- Kabir Khan - director
- Sargun Mehta - television actress
- Sonam Sherpa musician Parikrama
- Geetika Vidya Ohlyan - Actress
- Madan Gopal Singh sufi singer composer Chaar Yaar
- Sumangala Damodaran writer singer
- Akanksha Grover Singer
Politicians
- Naveen Patnaik; former Chief Minister of Odisha, second longest serving Chief Minister of any Indian state and the chief of Biju Janata Dal. He is a writer and has published 3 books.
- Madanlal Khurana; former Chief Minister of Delhi.
- Rangarajan Kumaramangalam; politician.
- Girija Prasad Koirala; former Prime Minister of Nepal.
- Pravesh Verma; Cabinet Minister, Government of Delhi.
Others
- K Moses Chalai, Secretary of Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Finance of India
- Utpal Kumar Singh, 17th Secretary General of Lok Sabha
- Padmavathy Bandopadhyay - first woman Air Marshal of Indian Air Force
- Habib Faisal - Hindi screenwriter and director
- Aditya Ghosh - Businessman who worked in aviation and hospitality
- Gaurav Bidhuri - boxer who won medal at World Championship
- Yogesh Kathuniya - Paralympic Athlete - Discus throw
- Vaibhav Singh Yadav - World Boxing Council(WBC) Asia & Asian Boxing Federation(ABF) Titles Champion
- M.S. Kohli - Indian mountaineer
- Massoud Khalili
- M. S. Krishnan -Chair of Business Information Technology at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business
- Abhay Kumar - poet, artist and diplomat
- Sanjivan Lal - film maker
- Harbans Mukhia - Indian historian
- Saeed Naqvi - journalist
- Parikrama - band
- Raghuvendra Singh Rathore
- Rajshekhar -Indian lyricist
- Himanshu Sharma - Bollywood screenwriter
- Mrityunjay Kumar Singh
- Dinesh Thakur - theatre director
- Mirza Waheed - Writer
- Arjun Dev- Writer, Educationist and Historian, he co-wrote some of the extremely popular NCERT books[17][18][19]
- Sohail Hashmi Writer Historian Archivist
Notable faculty
- Hiren Gohain
- Krishna Kumar
- Sarup Singh (ex-VC, University of Delhi and former Governor of Kerala and Gujarat )
- Frank Thakurdas Iconic Theatre Figure
- Keval Arora Eminent Theatre Person
References
- ↑ About KMC. Kirori Mal College. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ↑ NAAC Accreditation. Kirori Mal College. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ↑ KMC bags third highest NAAC score in Delhi University(12 November 2016). Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ↑ https://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2025/CollegeRanking.html
- ↑ All the world is a stage. Hindustan Times(24 August 2012).
- ↑ :: Welcome : Kirori Mal College, University Of Delhi Powered By : Redox Systems. www.kmcollege.ac.in. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ↑ A planner's sketches of Delhi | Delhi News - Times of India. The Times of India(31 August 2012).
- ↑ Pride of Haryana, Desai, R.W.. www.tribuneindia.com(29 April 2007). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ↑ DU starts vacation in advance, Chopra, Ritika. India Today(2 October 2010). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ↑ CWG: DU hostels all decked up, but where are the visitors?. NDTV.com.
- ↑ Accommodation tougher for DU aspirants as Games takes over hostels. archive.indianexpress.com.
- ↑ MHRD, National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF). www.nirfindia.org. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ↑ NIRF College Ranking Analysis 2020: LSR jumps to rank 2, Presidency drops to 5. news.careers360.com(13 June 2020).
- ↑ NIRF Ranking 2025.
- ↑ Know How Singer KK, Kirorimal Graduate Make It To Bollywood: Birthday Treat, Singh, Ritika. dailyaddaa.com(23 August 2019). Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- ↑ I owe my success to the theatre society of Kirorimal College: Satish Kaushik. News18(2015-08-19). Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ↑ Arjun Dev: a legendary historian passes away. The Hindu(29 March 2020). Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- ↑ Remembering Historian Arjun Dev, Who Spearheaded the Effort to Create Modern Textbooks. The Wire.
- ↑ Professor Arjun Dev, The Historian of 'Contemporary World' - Mainstream. www.mainstreamweekly.net.