1998: Department of Production and Industrial Engineering was founded.
1999: Amar Jyoti Institute of Physiotherapy was started.
2002: School of Rehabilitation Sciences was established.
2005: Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences was set-up.
2006: Durgabai Deshmukh College of Special Education and Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences founded.
2007: Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) was set-up in 2007 with Professor K.N. Tripathi as its first Director with an aim to remove traditional barriers to seeking knowledge, such as - space, time and resource constraints. 2008: Department of Dental Sciences introduced.
2011: Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) and Holy Family College of Nursing established.
2012: Cluster Innovation Centre started offering B.Tech. Humanities in five streams (Journalism,, Education, Historical Tourism, Art & Design, and Counselling) through the Meta College concept.
2013: The University signed an MoU with Software Technology Park of India (STPI) on 20th January 2013 to set-up Technology Parks at the Cluster Innovation Centre, North Campus to begin with, and at other locations later. College of Nursing at Army Hospital (R&R) was started.
2016: All-India Institute of Ayurveda was started.
2018: NAAC accredited the University with A+ Grade with a CGPA score of 3.28.
2019: Florence Nightingale College of Nursing was set-up.
2020: A big feat achieved- The Ministry of Education, Government of India issued a notification on March 02, 2020, declaring the University of Delhi as an Institution of Eminence (IoE).
2021: Dr Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal, the then Union Human Resource Development Minister, inaugurated the Maharishi Kanad Bhawan at the University. He was the Chief Guest at the convocation held, in which for the first time the University distributed online digital degrees to 1,78,719 students. Foundation stones for two new campuses, East Campus and West campus, were laid.
2022: The University adopted the National Education Policy 2020 and decided to introduce a four-year Undergraduate Curriculum Framework with multiple exit options. Admission to the UG programme to be based completely on an entrance examination called Common Universities Entrance Test (CUET).