About Dayanand Arya Kanya Degree College

Dayanand Arya Kanya Degree College is situated in Moradabad which is not only U.P.’s but whole Asia’s biggest brass exporting city. A great stalwart and industrious social worker Late Sri Dayanand Gupta, Advocate, established this institution in 1960. Initially, it got the affiliation from Agra University, Agra for the faculty of Arts only. Consequently, the graduation classes were started in five subjects: Hindi, English, Home science, Economics and Education with only six students. The Science faculty got recognition in 1964. In 2002-03 Post -graduate classes were started in Hindi and Zoology under self-finance scheme. Since then it has been the profound effort of the college to elevate its quality. The college authorities are striving to start PG classes in other subjects also. The college is also planning to build a big auditorium so that various workshops and demonstrations can be held there. A new feather in the cap is the Add-on course on Journalism and Mass Communication sponsored by UGC. The first batch that passed out got 100% placement in media industry.The college has the goal of nullifying “the darkness of ignorance and illuminating it with the light of knowledge”. For this the college runs both the U.G. and P.G. level courses and imparts both education and skills to the students. The skill aspect of the teaching is promoted in the practicals of Home-Science, Psychology and Education, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany. The M.A. Hindi students are inspired to make creative writing their hobby and students are encouraged to make their skills their hobby and earning. The M.Sc. Zoology students are inspired to take keen interest in apiculture, pisciculture, poultry and aquarium making. As we are an affiliated college of the University, we have to strictly follow the curricula design of the university. But our University keeps on revising the syllabus according to the changing needs of the time. The college has representatives in the University Board of Studies and some teachers are engrossed in research projects as well. The college has started self- financed post graduate degree courses in Hindi as well as Zoology and keen to start PG classes in other subjects also. Moreover, the college has started UGC sponsored Add-on course in Journalism and Mass Communication also, the first three passed out batches got 100% placement. The Student Welfare organization works efficiently to look after the interest of the students.

Information compiled from:Dayanand Arya Kanya Degree College, Moradabad- Website