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Meeting people at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies

SSCBS is the DU college built around management degrees: BMS, BBA (Financial Investment Analysis) and B.Sc (Hons) Computer Science, taught in an eight-floor building in Sector 16, Rohini, far from North and South Campus. Social life here runs through societies that recruit like companies, so your first friends usually come from induction season.

The story of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies

Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies was set up in 1987 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. It is widely described as the first collegiate business school in India to offer management education at the undergraduate level, years before BBA and BMS became standard choices on admission forms.

The college is named after Sukhdev Thapar, the revolutionary who was hanged alongside Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru in 1931. Its finance track, the BBA in Financial Investment Analysis, was introduced as the University of Delhi's first undergraduate finance programme, and a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science later gave the college a tech wing.

For three decades the college ran out of a compact building in Vivek Vihar, east Delhi. In 2017 it moved to a purpose-built campus on Dr. K.N. Katju Marg in Rohini, roughly 5 acres with about 217,800 square feet of floor area and separate hostels. Alumni still talk about the old building and the new building as two different eras of the same college.

What the campus is like socially

CBS is small and intense. Batches are compact, most students are in business or computer science programmes, and the calendar is shaped by case competitions, society projects and internship hunts rather than long canteen afternoons. Students joke that CBS kids are on LinkedIn before they are anywhere else, and they mostly mean it with pride.

Because Rohini sits outside the main DU clusters, the college is its own world. Friend groups form inside societies, in the lift queue between floors, and at the hostel, which is small enough that everyone knows everyone. The trade off is real: you trade the walk-over-to-the-next-college ease of North Campus for a tight, focused community where reputations travel fast.

Traditions every CBSite knows

• Crescendo: The annual cultural fest and the loudest week on campus, with music, dance and comedy events plus inter-college competitions that pull in students from across Delhi.
• Raasa: The college's theatre festival, a showcase for its dramatics scene that draws teams from other DU colleges.
• Society induction season: Every new session, societies run multi-round selections with applications, group discussions and interviews. Freshers describe it as placement season a few years early.
• Old building vs new building: Any alumni meet eventually turns into a debate about whether Vivek Vihar or Rohini was the real CBS. Nobody wins.

Campus lore and insider spots

• The eight floors: SSCBS is a vertical campus, so the lift is the social hub. Getting from the top floor to the canteen between lectures is a daily strategy game.
• The London trophy: In September 2017 Enactus SSCBS won the Enactus World Cup in London, beating teams from 36 countries. It is the story every senior tells freshers in the first week.
• The name on the gate: Students learn early that the college carries the name of a freedom fighter, not a donor, and the college marks his legacy in its own materials.
• Hostel room luck: Hostel seats are limited compared with the student body, so landing one is treated as a small personal victory.

How to find your people here

Join a society or the fest committee at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies in your first few weeks. DU friendships tend to form around a shared activity, not the classroom, and the North or South Campus ecosystem makes it easy to meet people from other colleges too.

Fests and societies at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies

Signature fests

• Crescendo
• Raasa

Notable societies

• Illuminati (Quizzing Society)
• Enactus
• FinX (Finance Society)

Societies worth knowing at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies

• Enactus SSCBS: The college's most famous society. It won the 2017 Enactus World Cup with Project Raahat, on sanitation in urban Delhi slums, and Udaan, which set up women-run computer centres in rural India. Selection is highly competitive.
• Illuminati: The quizzing society, a regular name on the DU quiz circuit.
• FinX and the Financial Management Association: The finance societies, running markets sessions and case competitions that feed straight into finance and consulting internships.
• 180 Degrees Consulting: The SSCBS branch of the global student consultancy, doing pro bono projects for nonprofits and social enterprises.
• Fourth Wall Productions: The dramatics society, central to Raasa and the college's stage scene.
• The Darkroom: The photography society, behind much of the campus imagery you see on CBS social media.

Careers, internships and placements

Careers are the reason most students choose SSCBS. The college lists recruiters such as Bain and Company, McKinsey Knowledge Center, Kearney, CBRE and EY, and consulting and analytics roles make up a large share of campus hiring. The BBA (FIA) track gives finance-minded students a direct route into markets and research roles.

The unwritten rule on campus is to get into a core society by second year. Case competitions, consulting projects and Enactus work are what interviewers ask about first, so society experience functions as informal training for placements and summer internships.

Notable alumni

• Aditi Arya: Femina Miss India World 2015, an SSCBS graduate who later worked in films and went on to an MBA at Yale.
• Kanu Behl: Film director and screenwriter known for Titli, listed among the college's notable alumni.
• Riya Vij: Actress, listed among the college's notable alumni.
• The 2017 Enactus team: Not one person but a whole cohort: the students who won the Enactus World Cup in London are still cited by the college as its standout achievement.

Rivalries and eternal debates

The eternal debate is SSCBS vs SRCC. SRCC brings the older brand and B.Com (Hons) prestige, SSCBS brings management degrees, a newer campus and an entrepreneurial streak, and forums have argued about it for years without a winner. On the circuit, CBS teams meet Hansraj, LSR and other DU colleges in case competitions, quizzes and Enactus contests, which is where the rivalry is actually decided.

What Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies is talking about now

Fest countdowns, case competition wins and society recruitment posts drive most of the current CBS buzz online, and campus tour vlogs aimed at CUET applicants are a popular genre. The 2017 Enactus win still gets reposted every year.

Meeting people at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies by interest

A lot of friendships here form around a shared interest rather than a class or a hostel wing. If you are into quizzing, volunteering and social impact, finance and investing, theatre and dramatics, and poetry and open mics, those pages cover where that scene actually happens in India and how to find people near you who are into the same thing.

Colleges nearby

Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies sits close to Delhi Technological University, Hansraj College, and Kirori Mal College, all part of the same Delhi NCR student scene. Cross-college friendships often start at inter-college fests, hackathons, or shared-interest communities rather than in class.

Similar campuses across India

If you are looking beyond your own campus, students at St. Stephen's College, Zakir Husain Delhi College, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, and Daulat Ram College share a similar campus culture, and Zyber works the same way at each: showing you verified people nearby who match on interest, intent, or timing.

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New to Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies? Start here

If you are just starting out, these freshers guides are written for exactly this moment: first week of college checklist, how to choose societies in college, making friends beyond your branch, and internship in first year.

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