St Agnes College

St Agnes College

St Agnes College is a catholic Minority Institution which from its inception has imparted higher education to the women of South India. It has ever since proved to be a standard bearer of repute in the field.

Management

The Apostolic Carmel is a congregation of sisters aggregated to the Order of Discalced Carmelites, founded in 1868 by Mother Veronica of the Passion at Bayonne and later established at Mangalore, India, in 1870. The sisters of the Apostolic Carmel run this institution.

The institution has the distinction of producing women graduates who hold positions in different spheres .

The College promotes sound social and family values that make for continuous internal upgradation, especially in the areas of teaching and learning.

It has, besides, been recognized as a ‘College with Potential for Excellence’ in 2006 and again in 2011 by the Post ‘CPE’ PHASE II and has been awarded ‘College of Excellence’ by UGC, New Delhi in the year 2017 and has been the recipient of the ‘Jimmy and Roselyn Carter Foundation Partnership Award’ for its path breaking work in the field of watershed management which has greatly benefited villages in the suburbs of Mangalore. The college has received ‘Star College Status ‘ by DBT, MST, Govt. of India.

However, no institution committed to the cause of higher education can rest contended on its laurels. St Agnes College is sensitively aware of this. Therefore, to promote academic excellence , the Management  has accepted the status of academic autonomy for the College since 2007. In the autonomous set up, the College is free to frame its own syllabi for the various courses  . The Mangalore University confers the degree or gives the diploma to the qualified candidates presented by the College. The government will continue to provide financial assistance in this set up. With autonomy, the College will be more efficient to teach job-oriented subjects, conduct examinations and announce results .

Accreditation

The College took the initiative of submitting itself to the accreditation process conducted by the NAAC. It was the first institution in Mangalore University to do so.  College  awarded ‘Five Star’ grade. In 2012, the College earned an ‘A’ grade and in 2017, the college accredited by NAAC with ‘A+’ with a CGPA of 3.65/4 in the fourth cycle.