The Oriental Department of the College carried out studies in modern education through the medium of Urdu. In 1835, when the new British Policy veered away from the concept of modern education through Indian languages, Delhi College took a bold stride in the reverse direction. The Educational Committee was created to translate into Urdu scientific books then taught in European schools. The English faculty of the College launched “The Society for the Promotion of Knowledge in India through the medium of Vernaculars”, which subsequently came to be known as the Delhi College Vernacular Translation Society. It translated as many as 125 books. These included chiefly Greek classics, Persian works and scientific treatises into Urdu. All these were translated in the space of about twenty years. The Society fostered a rich and multifaceted education and transformed Urdu from a language of poetry to the transmitter of Western scientific ideas.

The new emphasis on Western science attracted several young minds and in a short span. Delhi College had produced a few geniuses like Master Ram Chandra. Master Ram Chandra's work on differential calculus was published and noticed in Europe. Master Ram Chandra was not only an erudite scholar of Delhi College but also became a prolific teacher at the College. He started a paper in Urdu called the Fawaid-ul-Nazarin , which played an important role in the dissemination of modern science in India. He also edited two more of Delhi's earliest Urdu newspapers, viz., the Mohabbe-Hind and the Kiran-us-Sadain . The former aimed at a wide readership whereas the latter published various articles on scientific subjects.

Delhi College had a well-defined school curriculum, which included a local language. On to this were grafted European philosophy and science. The students at Delhi College showed clear-cut inclination towards a scientific rather than a literary education. In Bengal, a sudden literary enthusiasm for the newly discovered English novelists and poets swept everything else before it.