Ambedkar University Delhi Releases Master's in Political Science, D.Litt Programmes for 2025-26

Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) has announced two new programmes — Master's in Political Science and Doctor of Literature (D.Litt) — from next year's 2025-26 academic year. Vice-Chancellor Anu Singh Lather made the announcement during a press meet while releasing the university's postgraduate and undergraduate programme admission brochure.

According to Lather, the university will this year offer 1,491 postgraduate and 1,123 undergraduate scholarships. She enumerated the affordability and accessibility of study at AUD on mentioning that it is government-financed and renders inclusive financial scholarships to deserving learners. "We have significantly subsidized Ons fee, and nothing is charged for SC, ST, and PwD students," Lather further added. ₹6.26 crore have been provided to scholarships and students' welfare schemes during last year," she also added.

The introduction of the Master's in Political Science will enrich the social sciences curriculum of the university, and the D.Litt programme is a benchmarking attempt towards research and development of scholarship. In contrast to most institutions awarding the D.Litt as an honorary degree alone, AUD will confer it as an earned higher learning degree. The program will discover and recognize outstanding scholarly contribution in literature, humanities, social sciences, and design.

Lather further added that AUD's efforts in the direction of rationalizing its academic courses on NEP 2020 lines, i.e., experiential learning. "In keeping with the field work emphasis of the NEP, our students are already being taken to the relevant places such as Rakhigarhi in Haryana so that they could see it themselves," she said.

Through these programs, AUD continues to be a pioneering institution prioritizing academic as well as social impact, setting new standards for students and researchers next year.