General Shivdev Singh Diwan Gurbachan Singh Khalsa College, Patiala functioning under the dynamic leadership of Jathedar Avtar Singh, President, SGPC, Sri Amritsar, is one of Punjab's premier Institutes of higher learning. Setup in the heart of the royal city of Patiala, the campus is spread across 20 acres of Urban and 20 acres of serenity at village Dhablan. The campus is home to 5200 students, more than 200 faculty and a large and efficient team of support staff. The Institute is reputed for its state of the art infrastructure, well stocked library, advanced technology labs and Science labs. All these facilities have made Khalsa College Patiala a much sought after institution in the state. 

The college embarked on an unprecedented journey in 1960 with 37 students on its rolls offering a few programmes but today it can proudly claim to have introduced a series of a programmes with an aim to develop the skill set of students which are in consonance with the ever evolving market scenario. 

Besides running traditional programmes in Humanities, Science, Computer Science and Commerce the college took initiative to introduce B.Com Accounting and Finance, B.Sc. (CSM) and takes pride to proclaim that it has started a course of its own kind- Master of Leadership Development. This course has been designed and developed exclusively by us strictly in accordance with the needs of the market and this course has been approved by University Grants Commission under the Innovative Course Scheme and the college has also been given financial assistance to run the course smoothly. The college was one of the few colleges who were selected to run Community College Scheme of UGC. Two programmes are running successfully under this scheme - Advanced Diploma in Green House Technology and Advanced Diploma in Auto Electrical and Electronics. Both the programmes are very flexible with multiple entry and exit points for benefit of students. Under skill development scheme of UGC the college was granted B.Voc. in Food Processing & Engineering and B.Voc. in Software Development. All these programme follow choice based credit system. In this regard various MOU's have been signed with Industry to give students practical exposure.