The college had its beginning in four rooms of a school in Dev Nagar, with 49 students and a faculty of 6, and moved to its present location that is University of Delhi's North Campus in 1973.

The college has a spacious playing field for hockey, cricket, and football, and facilities for indoor games like table tennis, carom, and chess, as well as a mini gymnasium.

Apart from bringing a varied list of recruiters to the campus, the Placement Cell organises talks, study abroad seminars, internship opportunities and workshops for the collective student body.

Some of the major recruiters at Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College are as follows:[4] E&Y, KPMG, Deloitte, PWC, Zomato, SBI, TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, IBM Daksh and many more companies.

Artists like Diljit Dosanjh, Guru Randhawa, Jordan Sandhu, Karan Aujla have performed at this fest.