Department of biotechno-logy, ministry of science and technology, Government of India, has awarded star college status to city-based St Agnes College. The status was awarded on June 30.
Sr M Jeswina, principal, said the institution was reco-gnized for its outstanding performance in the field of science and technology.

From its inception, St Agnes College, a Catholic women’s college in the West Coast of India established in 1921 by Mother Aloysia, has proved to be a standard bearer of repute in the field of education.

The ‘Star College’ status comes in the wake of the college receiving recognition of College of Excellence from UGC in February and ‘A+’ Grade in cycle four from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in March 2017. St Agnes is the second college in Karnataka to be conferred with star status. The college had applied for financial assistance under Star College Scheme in 2011. In 2012, it received financial assistance for physics, chemis-try, botany, zoology and micro-biology under the scheme.