College of Art is an institution established in 1942 for advanced training in Visual Art (Creative and Applied) leading to the Bachelor of Fine Art Degree of the University of Delhi, further providing advance training in Master in Fine Art course(except Art History) in (a) Applied Art (b) Art History (c) Painting (d) Printmaking (e) Sculpture and (f) Visual Communication with emphasis on studio practicals, prescribed theory subjects and research in selected fields.The College is under the Faculty of Music & Fine Art, University of Delhi, for all academic matters and wholly administrated by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi.
Library:The Library of the College is accommodated in an area of 241.38 sq. m. It has an Extensive collection of approximately 17500 books on Fine Art, Applied Art, History of Art, Aesthetics, Methods & Materials, Sanskrit, Visual communication Fiction in languages such as Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali etc, leading Newspapers in English and Hindi, Periodicals (National and from abroad), a vast collection of Encyclopedias etc.