The Bharat Ratna Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi, (Ambedkar University, Delhi or AUD for short) was established through an Act of the Delhi Legislature in 2007 and was notified in July 2008. The University began functioning in August 2008.

AUD is mandated to focus on teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities and is guided by Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s vision of promoting equality and social justice as well as quality and excellence. AUD is a unitary university with both postgraduate and undergraduate programmes on campus. It can develop into a multi-campus system spread over the National Capital Territory.

AUD will function through its various Schools and Centres. The proposed Schools include: School of Development Studies, School of Human Ecology, School of Human Studies, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, School of Design, School of Business, Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship, School of Educational Studies, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship and School of Liberal Studies. These Schools will offer postgraduate diploma, masters’ and doctoral programmes in interdisciplinary areas of knowledge. The School of Undergraduate Studies will be the academic home for the undergraduate programmes in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Liberal Studies and Mathematical Sciences.

Apart from its Schools, AUD will also have Centres for research, documentation and training. The Centres will have a thematic focus on issues of contemporary relevance and will work in a project mode. The Centres can also develop courses which may be configured as part of the academic programmes of the various Schools of AUD. Among the Centres that AUD is considering to establish are: a Centre for Leadership and Change, a Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development, a Centre for Equality and Social Justice, a Centre for Engaged Spiritualities and Peace Building and a Centre for Social Applications of Mathematics.

The University is at present located in an interim campus in the Integrated Institute of Technology Campus, Sector 9, Dwarka, New Delhi. The University hopes to move into its permanent campus(es) within about three years.