AUD Delhi Recruitment 2026 — 89 Professor, Associate Professor & Assistant Professor Posts

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) has released its Teaching Recruitment 2026 notification under Detailed Advertisement No. AUD/55-1(67)/Rect./2026/838 dated 31 July 2026, inviting applications for 89 regular faculty positions across 14 Schools of the University. The 89 posts are distributed as 24 Professor, 28 Associate Professor, and 37 Assistant Professor positions, covering disciplines ranging from Law, Management, Education, and Design to Letters, Human Ecology, Public Policy, and Vocational Studies. Candidates can apply online through the University's recruitment portal, with the online application window closing 3 weeks and the hard-copy submission deadline closing 4 weeks from the date this advertisement is published in "Employment News." Eligibility for these AUD Delhi posts is governed by the UGC Regulations on Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers, 2018, along with NCTE and AICTE Regulations for applicable disciplines. Assistant Professor applicants generally need a Master's degree with 55% marks in the relevant subject, along with UGC-NET/CSIR-NET or SLET/SET qualification, or a Ph.D. meeting specified UGC exemption conditions. Associate Professor applicants need a Ph.D. with at least 8 years of teaching/research experience and a minimum research score of 75, while Professor applicants need a Ph.D. with at least 10 years of experience and a minimum research score of 120, along with a strong record of peer-reviewed publications and doctoral supervision. Selection for all 89 AUD Delhi posts proceeds through screening and shortlisting of applications, followed by an interview — there is no written examination. Assistant Professor shortlisting uses an Academic Score matrix covering academic qualifications, publications, and experience, while Professor and Associate Professor shortlisting is based on academic records, publications, and Research Score. Selected candidates will be placed on Academic Pay Level 10 (Rs. 57,700–92,500) for Assistant Professor, Level 13A (Rs. 1,31,400–2,10,800) for Associate Professor, and Level 14 (Rs. 1,44,200–2,18,200) for Professor, under the 7th Central Pay Commission pay matrix, along with UGC and Government of NCT of Delhi admissible allowances. The application fee is Rs. 1,000 for UR/OBC/EWS candidates, with SC/ST/PwD/Women candidates exempted from any fee. Candidates applying for more than one discipline must submit separate applications and pay the fee separately for each. Interested candidates should apply online through the AUD recruitment portal, then send a signed hard copy with self-attested documents, properly indexed and paginated, to the Deputy Registrar (Recruitment & Promotion Cell) at the University's Kashmere Gate Campus in Delhi. This AUD Delhi Recruitment 2026 offers academics across a wide range of disciplines a substantial opportunity to join one of Delhi's designated State Universities, with 2 posts horizontally reserved for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities. This AUD Delhi recruitment drive is unusually large in scope, spanning 14 distinct Schools that reflect the University's interdisciplinary character — from Culture & Creative Expressions and Design, to Public Policy & Governance, Legal & Socio-Political Studies, Management, Letters, and Education Studies, including specialized Liberal Discipline Pedagogy posts under the Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) covering Hindi, English, History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics. Candidates should carefully identify which School and discipline matches their qualifications, since each of the 89 posts carries its own detailed essential-qualification and specialisation table within the full notification, and applying to the wrong discipline table could result in summary rejection during the scrutiny stage. Given that AUD Delhi has tied its application deadlines to the "Employment News" publication date rather than fixed calendar dates, candidates should monitor both the University website and the Employment News weekly closely to avoid missing the online or hard-copy submission windows. The reservation breakdown across categories (UR, OBC, SC, ST, EWS) is detailed post-by-post and School-by-School in the vacancy table, with 2 of the 89 posts horizontally reserved for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities across the five recognized disability categories under the DoPT framework. Candidates with a Ph.D. from a foreign university should be particularly attentive to the Equivalence Certificate requirement from the Association of Indian Universities — without this certificate, candidature is summarily rejected regardless of the underlying qualification's merit. Similarly, OBC Non-Creamy Layer certificates must be valid as per Government of NCT of Delhi norms specifically, not just any state-issued certificate, and should remain valid through the conclusion of the recruitment process. Given the scale of this recruitment and the University's explicit statement that post numbers are tentative and subject to change, candidates should treat the vacancy figures as indicative rather than final and stay alert for any addenda or corrigenda posted on the University website.

• Assistant Professor: Master's degree (55%+) in relevant/allied subject + NET/SLET/SET or qualifying PhD (or PhD from a global top-500 university)
• Assistant Professor (Management): Bachelor's + MBA/PGDM/CA/ICWA/M.Com (First Class) + 2 years' professional experience
• Associate Professor: PhD in concerned/allied discipline + Master's (55%+) + minimum 8 years' teaching/research experience + 7 peer-reviewed publications + Research Score 75
• Professor: PhD + minimum 10 years' experience + 10 peer-reviewed publications + Research Score 120 + doctoral supervision record

• Not specified in this notification

• Assistant Professor: Master's (55%+) + NET/SLET/SET or qualifying PhD
• Associate Professor: PhD + 8 years' experience + Research Score 75
• Professor: PhD + 10 years' experience + Research Score 120
• 5% relaxation at Bachelor's/Master's for SC/ST/OBC(NCL)/Divyang candidates
• 5% relaxation (55% to 50%) for PhD holders with Master's before 19 Sep 1991

Rs. 1,000 for UR/OBC/EWS; Nil for SC/ST/PwD/Women

• Professor: Academic Pay Level 14 (Rs. 1,44,200 – 2,18,200)
• Associate Professor: Academic Pay Level 13A (Rs. 1,31,400 – 2,10,800)
• Assistant Professor: Academic Pay Level 10 (Rs. 57,700 – 92,500)

1. Visit the official AUD recruitment portal linked on aud.delhi.gov.in
2. Fill the application form mandatorily in online mode within the prescribed time limit
3. Pay the applicable fee online via credit/debit card, net banking, or the payment gateway; apply and pay separately for each discipline if applying to more than one
4. If applying under more than one reservation category for the same post/discipline, select multiple categories before final submission and pay any additional applicable fee
5. After successful online submission and payment, take a printout of the application
6. Compile the printed application with self-attested copies of all required documents, indexed and paginated in the order of the essential eligibility criteria
7. Send the hard copy, preferably by Registered/Speed Post, to the Deputy Registrar (Recruitment & Promotion Cell), Room No. 31A, AUD, Kashmere Gate Campus, Delhi – 110006, with the post/discipline name on the envelope
8. Be prepared for screening/shortlisting followed by an interview (and, where required, a presentation/seminar)