About Us

A premier educational institution of North India, DAV College Amritsar has high academic standing and a reputation for excellence in research and teaching which is reflected in the demand for courses for high achieving students, the relevance of graduates to the community in which they work , the quality of staff and their strong performance and commitment to research. A gateway to academic and professional excellence, this multi-faculty, multi-facility postgraduate (co-ed) College is famous for providing cutting edges to academic and co-academic skills through its commitment to innovative and student-friendly initiatives. The college has created an inimitable academic space for itself within nearly five decades of its monumental existence.

The administrative offices, library and the labs remain open deep in the evening. The Shift acts as a light-house of hope and knowledge for those who want to learn while earning. Forever challenging and forever winning, its highly creative, innovative and skilled faculty has produced a galaxy of alumni which has touched high watermarks in careers as lawyers, judges, academicians statesmen, bureaucrats, technocrats, management professionals, business enterpreneurs, social workers and sports persons of national and international repute.

Providing education with vision and creativity, the college lays great stress on personalized attention to prepare the students for world-class professional avenues. Reckoned as a role-model in IT ideas, the college has carved a niche in the IT space by rapidly building technical logistics & e-infrastructure, and by catalysing IT with academics and management.

Mission

... is to make our motherland an intellectually formidable power-house by creating a cadre of motivated and prospective individuals who become catalysts of change through education which is value and need-based, which is technologically driven, collectively-constructed and dialogically explored, which is globally relevant and yet essentially rooted in the matrix of Indian philosophy and its holistic world-view of vasudheva katumbkam....

Vision

....To offer a wide range of higher education in tune with the needs of industry, business and administration leavened by strong commitment to excellence and creativity in teaching and learning which is responsive to regional, national and international needs and aspirations...

History

Late Mahatma Hans Raj(1864-1938) was an indian educationalist of a disciple of Arya Samaj movement founder Swami Dyanand . He founded the DAV Schools System in Lahore in 1886, Where the first DAV was established.
DAV College Amritsar was established on I^st June 1955 in the sacred memory of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati along with the vedic tradition in the youth of contemporary INDIA.