Sri Venkateswara College

[1] It is managed by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams & UGC and awards degrees under the purview of the University of Delhi.

[2] It was founded under the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Trust, as a result of the efforts of Durgabai Deshmukh, who was a member of the constituent assembly of India and founder of the Andhra Education Society in Delhi (1948).

The primary objective of the college was to cater to the education needs of students from South India.

The college started up in 1961 in a school building of the Andhra Education Society in Rouse Avenue (now Deen Dyal Uppadhyay Marg near ITO), New Delhi, with 271 students and 13 faculty members.

[4] The foundation stone of the present campus was laid on 20 August 1961 by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former president of India (then vice-president).

The college moved into its newly constructed campus at Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi, on 25 August 1971.

Within few years of acquiring its new campus, and led by its principal V Krishnamoorthy, the college introduced honours courses in arts and science.

From its beginning with just language courses, the college now has academic departments in other disciplines: Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, English, Political Science, History, Botany, and Zoology.

NEXUS, the annual inter-college cultural festival of Sri Venkateswara College, was founded in 1978.