Founded in 1882 by Fathers of the French Mission, it was affiliated to the University of Madras as a Second Grade College. The main building was established with the enrollment of 350 students. It became the first college in Karnataka to offer post graduate courses in 1986 & was accredited by UGC as a “College with Potential for Excellence” in 2004 & 2014 & was granted the status of DST- FIST College in 2015 and extension of Autonomous Status by UGC till 2022. St Joseph College stands on 3 pillars, academic excellence, character formation & social concern.
Located in the heart of the city on 8.44 acres of land, St Joseph College Bangalore, the campus consists of a Undergraduate ( UG)Block, a Postgraduate ( PG) Block, hostels for students, Father’s residence, guest houses & a playground. The UG Block is in turn divided into Humanities block & Science Block with the former consisting of ICT classrooms designed to provide maximum natural light & air circulation, a well stocked library having over 80,000 books & CDROMs, DVD-ROMs, video cassettes, books journals etc , a canteen, an auditorium block with a seating capacity of 1200 having excellent acoustics, lighting, green room & 4 ICT enabled smaller halls, an audio visual room, a language lab, hostel facilities for boys, a staff infirmary as well as staff rooms of various departments. The latter contains laboratories of various departments, an observatory, audio visual studios & a staff seminar hall alongwith classrooms & staff rooms.
The PG section is located on a 1 acre land adjacent to the UG Campus & contains separate laboratories for each discipline, studios, editing suites, a canteen, library facility, an auditorium with a seating capacity of 350 students.
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