Jesuit managed St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru has received the status of ‘Deemed to be Uni-versity,’, approved by the Univer-sity Grants Commission and the federal Ministry of Education.
“This status gives us several opportunities to further improve the education mission with exce-llence and commitment,” rector Jesuit Father Melwyn Pinto told Matters India.
“This is a unique opportunity to serve the cause of higher edu-cation, including designing sy-llabus, conducting examinations and issuing certificates indepe-ndently,” said the rector, adding they have further plans to expand the college campus and start new courses.
Established in 1880 the college has been a premier higher edu-cational institution in coastal Karnataka with several distinctive achievements. The college was elevated to the autonomous status in 2007 allowing it to make na-tional and global presence.
The UGC and the Ministry of Education granted the university status to the college after studying its proposal on various paramet-ers like physical and digital infra-structure, curricular design, re-search and innovation, graduate outcomes, student attainment le-vels, placements, vision and mi-ssion of the institution and its impact on society.
Earlier, the college was re-peatedly given accreditations by National Assessment and Accre-ditation Council (NAAC) and Na-tional Institutional Ranking Fra-mework (NIRF) and other distin-ctive rankings, Father D’Souza said.