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{{Infobox university
| name = St. Joseph's College, Bangalore
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| motto = ''Fide et Labore''
| mottoeng = ''Faith and Labor''
| established = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1882}}
| religious_affiliation = [[Roman Catholic]] ([[Jesuit]])
| academic_affiliations = [[Bengaluru City University]]
| principal = Fr. Dr. Victor Lobo SJ
| academic_staff = 300+
| students = 5500+
| city = Langford Road [[Bangalore]]
| state = [[Karnataka]]
| country = [[India]]
| coor = {{Coord|12.9629|77.5964|region:IN_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| website = {{url|www.sjc.ac.in}}
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'''St. Joseph's College''' is a private, Catholic, ceducational higher education institution run by the Karnataka Province of the [[Society of Jesus]] in [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]], India. It is one of the oldest colleges in the state of Karnataka with a history of {{Age|1882}} years. It has been conferred with the award ''College of Excellence'' by the [[University Grants Commission (India)]]. The college was awarded a rating of ''' A++''' (3.79/4), in the 4th cycle of re-accreditation by the [[National_Assessment_and_Accreditation_ Council|National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)]] in 2017. It offers graduate, post-graduate and research education.
St. Joseph's College has around 300 teaching and non-teaching staff and more than 5500 students.
St. Joseph’s College is located at Langford Road near Richmond Circle, [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]], India.

==History==
[[File:St Joseph's College Bangalore 2009 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|St Joseph's College on a 2009 stamp of India]]
St. Joseph's was set up in the year 1882 because of the salubrious climate{{cn|date=February 2019}} and strategic position of Bangalore, and the need to provide education for the small Catholic community comprising about 1000 Europeans and 5000 Indians. In 1904 the Indian section was separated from the European section.

In 1926 the [[University of Madras]] granted the Institution the status of a First Grade College. On 1 June 1937, the management of the College was transferred to the [[Society of Jesus]]. From 1882 to 1937 the college was under the French foreign missionaries. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sjc.ac.in/milestones.html|title=St. Joseph's College Autonomous|website=www.sjc.ac.in|access-date=2019-02-23}}</ref>At the time the college consisted of one building, constructed in 1925, accommodating 350 students.
In 1967 the College was granted permanent affiliation to Bangalore University. 1972 saw the commerce sections and evening college separated from the main college. It was the first affiliated college in Karnataka to offer postgraduate courses in Botany and Chemistry and set up a research centre. The college is one of the early ones to go for NAAC accreditation in 1998 and got a four-star (70–75%).In 2001 the College moved from the Residency Road campus to new premises in the erstwhile Hostel Campus at the intersection of [[Langford Road]] and [[Lal Bagh|Lalbagh]] Road. The pre-university section was separated from the college in 2002 as part of the Karnataka state policy of bifurcation. It was Accredited by UGC as a College with Potential for Excellence‘ (CPE) on 3 November 2004 and was one of five colleges in Karnataka that was awarded academic autonomy in the year 2005. The second cycle of NAAC Accreditation conferred A‘ level (Score 85.3%) on 2 February 2006. A commemorative stamp by India Post was released on 1 August 2009. The UGC extended the College's Autonomous Status for the period 2010–2011 to 2015–2016. Yet again the college saw an improvement in its NAAC Accreditation score in the third Cycle with 'A' level and a score of 3.73/4 on 10 March 2012. The college was granted College for Excellence‘(CE) status by the UGC in 2014. It was granted the status of DST-FIST College. The UGC once again extended the Autonomous Status for the period 2016–2022.

In 2014 the College was cited for its model library facility.<ref>{{cite book | last =Bhat | first =K. Shivananda | title =National Conference on Management of Modern Libraries (NACML) Mahabaleshwara | publisher =Allied Pub. Pvt. Ltd. | date =2014 | location =Delhi | pages =182 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=42a8CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA182|isbn=978-81-8424-869-2|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

The institution has four main buildings, located in the centre of the Cantonment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2017/sep/22/music-and-dance-fete-at-st-josephs-college-1661238.html|title=Music and dance fete at St Joseph's College|website=newindianexpress.com|access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref>
* [[St. Joseph's College, Bangalore]] (previously St. Joseph's College of Arts and Sciences) which is located on Langford Road near Richmond Circle, Bangalore
* [[St Joseph's College of Law, Bangalore]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collegedunia.com/college/59344-st-josephs-college-of-law-bangalore|title=St. Joseph's College of Law, Bangalore|website=Collegedunia|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sjcl.edu.in/|title=St. Joseph's College of Law :: Bangalore|website=www.sjcl.edu.in|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref>
* [[St. Joseph's College of Commerce]]
* [[St. Joseph’s Institute of Management]] (previously St. Joseph's College of Business Administration)
* St. Joseph's Evening College, Bangalore and
* [[St. Joseph's Pre-University College|Pre-University College]] located in the vicinity of St. Patrick's Church and Good Shepherd Convent.

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== META- The Josephite Festival of Literature<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.twenty19.com/opportunities/organiser/st-joseph-s-college-autonomous-bangalore/meta-the-josephite-festival-of-literature|title=META - The Josephite Festival of Literature|website=Twenty19|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/literature-festival-at-stjosephs-college-in-bengaluru/article8252867.ece|title=On a META scale|last=Rodricks|first=Allan Moses|date=2016-02-18|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-02-16|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://metajosephs.in/category/meta/meta-2017/|title=2017 ← META|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref> ==

The annual Literature festival organised by the Department of English of St. Joseph`s College, Bangalore is open to all college students and the general public. Consisting of a plethora of contests, events, talks, panels and performances, META has been a platform to showcase new talents in the college and the city. It began in 2014 and has already seen five editions.

==St. Joseph's Evening College (Autonomous)==
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'''St Joseph's Evening College, Bangalore''' was established in 1972 as a Jesuit college to empower the underprivileged sectors of Indian society <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sjec.edu.in/college.html|title=SJEC|access-date=14 June 2021}}</ref> In 2005, it was given autonomous status by the UGC, to devise its own curriculum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiantoday.co.in/article/ugc.grants.autonomous.status.to.5.christian.colleges.in.bangalore/931.htm|title=UGC grants autonomous status to 5 Christian colleges in Bangalore|access-date=14 June 2016}}</ref>

The Evening College is a minority institution and accepts students of all religious denominations without discrimination. It is affiliated to [[Bengaluru City University]] and offers three-year BCom, BA, BCA, and BBM degrees and two-year postgraduate degrees in Commerce (MCom), and English.<ref>{{cite book|title=Handbook of Universities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKgM7P5iGwgC&pg=PA96|year=2006|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0607-9|pages=96–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/bengaluru-students-take-to-the-streets-to-raise-awareness-about-traffic-rules-and-pollution/articleshow/63259463.cms | title=Bengaluru: Students take to the streets to raise awareness about traffic rules and pollution | publisher=[[Bangalore Mirror]] | work=Kumaran P | date=12 March 2018 | access-date=10 September 2018}}</ref>

In 2007 Joseph's won the top prize at Agno-Fest competition among 13 colleges, in commerce, science, and arts competitions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=38857|title=Mangalore St Josephs Evening College of Bangalore Champions at Agno Fest, 2007|access-date=14 June 2016}}</ref> In 2014 a post-graduate course in commerce (MCom) introduced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sjec.edu.in/milestone.html|title=SJEC|access-date=14 June 2016}}</ref>

The college also organizes seminars for the public; a seminar on climate change in 2011 attracted more than 400 persons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news18.com/news/india/seminar-on-climate-change-384661.html|title=Seminar on climate change|access-date=14 June 2016}}</ref> Furthermore, it fields sports teams, including a successful boys' hockey team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/aug16/sp4.asp|title=Deccan Herald News page|access-date=14 June 2016}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
*[[Kenneth Anderson (writer)|Kenneth Anderson]]
*Sri. [[T.S. Krishnamurthy]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/TS-Krishnamurthy|title=TS Krishnamurthy: Latest News & Videos, Photos about TS Krishnamurthy {{!}} The Economic Times|website=The Economic Times|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://valuefoundation.in/?page_id=3112|title=Sri T. S. Krishnamurthy {{!}} FRNV|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref> {{citation needed|reason=lacks a reliable source confirming attendance|date=February 2019}}
*[[Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)|Sri Sri Ravi Shankar]]
*[[Dino Morea]]
*[[Irfan Razack]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/Irfan-Razack-0B5FW5-E/biography/|title = Irfan Razack - Biography}}</ref>
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==See also==
* [[List of Jesuit sites]]
*[[St. Joseph's Institute of Management, Bangalore|St Joseph's Institute of Management]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.sjc.ac.in/}}
{{Jesuit Colleges in India}}
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