Delhi, being the capital of the country attracts students from all over India. It has a number of government and private colleges offering quality education in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, arts, law, management etc. Some prominent educational institutes are:

• Delhi University
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences
• Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Jamia Millia Islamia
• Guru Gobind Singh University (also known as Indraprastha University
• The Indian Institute of Planning and Management

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi:
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one of the seven Institutes of Technology created as centres of excellence for higher training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India, the others being at Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai, Mumbai, Guwahati and Roorkee. Established as College of Engineering in 1961, the Institute was later declared an Institution of National Importance under the "Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963" and was renamed "Indian Institute of Technology Delhi". It was then accorded the status of a deemed university with powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees.

All-India Institute of Medical Sciences:
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences was established as an institution of national importance by an Act of Parliament with the objective to develop patterns of teaching in Undergraduate and Post-graduate Medical Education in all its branches. This is to demonstrate a high standard of Medical Education in India; to bring together in one place educational facilities of the highest order for the training of personnel in all important branches of health activity; and to attain self-sufficiency in Post-graduate Medical Education.