1973: The South Campus was started with the initiative of the then Vice-Chancellor, Prof Sarup Singh with Prof Amrik Singh as its first Director.Department of Business Economics was established as the first department in the South Campus and in 1994 Department of Financial Studies was started. In 2019 both the departments were amalgamated to form the Department of Finance and Business Economics.
1975: Institute for the Physically Handicapped, renamed as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped in 2002, and further renamed as Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya National Insitite for Persons with Physical Disabilities (Divyangjan) in 2016.
1976: Adult & Continuing Education Cell was set-up, upgraded as Centre for Adult, Continuing Education & Extension in 1982, and became a full-fledged Department in 1985.
1977: National Institute of Health & Family Welfare was established.
1981: Tibia College of Unani Medicine, and Department of Computer Science were established.
1983: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering introduced.
1984: Departments of Bio-Chemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Applied Sciences, and Humanities started. The year saw addition of two more colleges- Sri Aurobindo College (Evening) and Sri Guru Gobind College of Commerce.
1985: Departments of Punjabi, Electronic Science, Bio-Physics, and Computer Engineering started.
1987: Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education, popularly known as CPDHE was setup and started functioning in 1988. Women’s Studies and Development Centre of Advanced Study (WSDC), was established in 1987 as a response of the University of Delhi to the call from the University Grants Commissions (UGC) to address women’s concerns in higher education. WSDC has been recognised as an Advanced Centre of Study by the UGC in 2016. More specialised colleges were added- Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences.
1988: Departments of Germanic and Romance Studies, Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, and Plant Molecular Biology introduced.
1989: One more engineering department added- Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering.
1990: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College was set-up.
1991: Dr B.R. Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research (ACBR) came into existence with the foundation stone laid by the then Prime Minister of India Sh. Chandra Shekhar, on the occasion of the birth centenary of Baba Saheb Dr B.R. Ambedkar. The University got two more colleges- Acharya Narendra Dev College and Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College. Department of Environmental Studies initiated.
1993: Several departments under the Faculty of Medicine Sciences were established. Bhagini Nivedita College, Ahilya Bai College of Nursing, and Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences started. Developing Countries Research Centre was set-up and renamed Centre for Global Studies in 2021.
1994: The University got more colleges- Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Keshav Mahavidyalaya and Maharaja Agrasen College.
1995: In honour of Prof. Kothari, the University established the D.S. Kothari Centre for Science, Ethics and Education. Sir John Kendrew, Nobel Laureate, delivered the first Prof. D. S. Kothari Memorial lecture on November 18, 1995. Department of Mechanical Engineering was set-up. Two more specialised colleges - Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences and Maharshi Valmiki College of Education - were established.
1997: The Institute of Informatics and Communication was established.