Christ University

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CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
This is the graphical mascot of Christ University, Bangalore.png
Former names
Christ College,
Christ University
MottoExcellence and Service
TypePrivate, Deemed University
Established15 July 1969; 52 years ago (1969-07-15)
AffiliationCatholic[1]
Officer in charge
Dr Anil Joseph Pinto[1]
ChancellorDr Fr Paul Achandy, CMI [1]
Vice-ChancellorRev. Dr. Fr. Abraham V. M, CMI [1]
Academic staff
950+[1]
Students18,535 (2016)[2]
Undergraduates14,500 (2016)[2]
Postgraduates4,035 (2016)[2]
Address
Hosur Rd, Bhavani Nagar, S.G. Palya, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029
,
Bangalore
,
Karnataka
,
India
CampusUrban
LanguageEnglish
ColoursBlue, White and Canary[3]
     
Websitechristuniversity.in
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Main Campus Gate

CHRIST (Deemed To Be University),[4] is a deemed to be university in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Founded in 1969 as an autonomous college, on 22 July 2008 it was declared as an institution deemed to be university under section 3 of UGC Act 1956 by the Ministry of Education (India).[5] The University is under the management of the priests of the Catholic religious order, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), part of Syro Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church. In 2016, the University was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with A Grade.[6]

History[]

CHRIST (Deemed to be University) was born out of the educational vision of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara, an educationalist and social reformer of the nineteenth century in South India.[7] Chavara founded the first indigenous Catholic congregation Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) in 1831, which administers CHRIST (Deemed to be University).[7] Established in 1969 as Christ College, the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India conferred Autonomy to the Christ College in 2004[8] and identified it as an institution with Potential for Excellence in 2006.[9] In 2008 under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India, declared the institution a Deemed to be University, in the name and style of 'Christ University'. Later in 2018, upon the direction of Supreme Court of India, the word 'University' was removed thus making it Christ (Deemed to be University).[10] Christ was one of the first institutions in India to be accredited in 1998 by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), and subsequently in 2004 and 2016 had been awarded Grade 'A' on 4-point scale.[11]

Campus[]

CHRIST (Deemed to be University) during Christmas

Main campus is spread over 25 acres (10 ha) and is part of the 100-acre (40 ha) Dharmaram College Campus in the central part of Bangalore city. It is on the extension of Hosur Road (NH 7) opposite the Bangalore Dairy Circle Flyover. The city campus is close to residential localities such as BTM Layout, a residential and commercial area, Koramangala, another large neighborhood and Jayanagar, one of the largest residential neighborhoods in Bangalore. In 2009, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) opened Kengeri Campus is spread over 75 acres at Kengeri on the Bangalore-Mysore highway SH 17, and houses the School of Engineering and Technology, PU Residential College, the School of Business and Management which offers MBA and BBA programmes, as well as School of Architecture, which was started officially from 2017.[12] CHRIST (Deemed to be University) also has Bannerghatta Road Campus in Hulimavu on Bannerghatta Road, inaugurated in May 2016.[13] Apart from these campuses, Christ has two more campuses, in Lavasa, Pune which was established in the year 2007 [14] and in Delhi NCR established in the year 2013.[15]

The campuses are zero waste campus and recycle their wet waste and used paper.[16]

Organization and administration[]

The University is managed by the CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Trust, which in turn is organized by the CMI congregation, under the Syro Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church. The Chancellor of the university is always the rector of the Dharmaram Pontifical Seminary.[17] Thus, by assuming the rector's seat, he also assumes the position of the Chancellor. Under him comes the Vice Chancellor, who takes all the decisions which can affect day-to-day administrative matters. The present Vice Chancellor is Dr Fr Abraham Vettiyankal Mani, who holds a doctorate from Bangalore University and an American masters in Computer Science. Though the vice chancellor's position is usually assumed by a priest from the congregation, the person appointed thus has all the qualifications and academic experiences required by the UGC.[18] Under the vice chancellor comes the registrar, currently, Dr Anil Joseph Pinto. The financial matters of the university are managed by a Chief Finance Officer. Various deaneries and departments are headed and represented by deans and department heads.

Academics[]

The University has over 18,000 students and more than 800 faculty members.[19][20][21] It has a foreign student community of about 700 from 58 nationalities.[22] The university offers nationally and internationally recognised undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes.

Rankings[]

According to the QS India rankings for 2020, Christ is positioned 80-85. In 2019, Christ was ranked 71-75. Among Asian universities it is ranked 501-550.[23]

India Today conducts annual surveys and rates institutions of higher education in India on several parameters. The rankings are summarised in the two tables.

India Today ranking of universities
Year Rank 2012 Rank 2013[24] Rank 2014[25] Rank 2015[26] Rank 2016[27] Rank 2017[28] Rank 2018[29] Rank 2019 Rank 2020[30]
Top University in India 31 23 14 11 16 8 8 - -
Top Private University in India - - 2 - - - 1 2 3
Top Deemed University in India - - - 1 - - - - -
Top South Indian University - - - 5 - - - - -
Top Private University with Max UG Courses - - - - - - 5 - -
India Today higher education ranking
Course Rank 2005[31] Rank 2006[32] Rank 2007[33] Rank 2008[34] Rank 2009[35] Rank 2010[36] Rank 2011[37] Rank 2012[38] Rank 2013[39] Rank 2014[40] Rank 2015[41] Rank 2016[42] Rank 2017[43] Rank 2018[44] Rank 2019[45] Rank 2020[46] Rank 2021[47]
Bachelor of Business Administration NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 4
Bachelor of Computer Application NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1
Mass Communication NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 3 3 3 2 3 7 8 8 8
Science 10 10 10 8 13 7 6 6 4 4 3 3 1 8 8 9 11
Commerce NA NA 5 6 4 5 5 6 5 4 4 3 2 5 NA 7 NA
Humanities NA 12 8 6 6 8 5 6 10 6 4 3 3 7 NA 8 NA
Law NA NA NA NA NA NA 15 16 13 12 12 7 5 10 11 12 16
Hotel Management NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 4 6 8 11 11 12
Master of Social Work NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 6 7 6 6

The Week in association with Hansa research conducted the Week-Hansa research survey and the rankings are listed in the table

The Week-Hansa Research Survey
Course Rank 2015[48] Rank 2019[49] Rank 2020[50]
Arts (All India) 9 12 13
Commerce (All India) 6 8 8
Science (All India) 8 16 13
Law (All India) 26 16 15
Law (Private All India) - - 4
Law (Private South Zone) - - 1
Hotel Management (All India) 15 - -

Academic programmes[]

Undergraduate Programmes[]

BGR Campus Front view

The university offers 46 undergraduate programmes in humanities, social sciences, science, commerce and management, education, law and engineering. Undergraduate programmes are of three-year duration except in the case of Bachelor of Education (BEd, two years), Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM, four years), Bachelor of Laws (LLB, five years), Bachelor of Technology (BTech, four years) and an integrated BTech/MTech or MBA (five years). Except for Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BSc) programmes follow a Triple Major system.

Wikipedia in the undergraduate programme
Wikipedia workshop for second language students

The institution entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore to make article writing on Wikipedia a core exercise for the continuous internal assessment of its 1600 undergraduate students in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Sanskrit and Urdu.[51] The Hindi and Kannada articles may be found at collection of Hindi articles and collection of Kannada articles.

Post-Graduate Programmes[]

The University offers 47 masters, 17 Master of Philosophy and 21 PhD degree programmes in Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Law, Education, commerce and management, and Engineering. Masters programmes are of two years duration, except for Master of Computer Science and Master of Law which are three years and one-year duration, respectively.

Publications[]

The university has published over 220 books in Kannada, through Kannada Sangha, a non-profit organisation of the university promoting Kannada around the world and publishes six peer reviewed journals to make wider the base advance, a full-fledged Centre for Publications was started in the year 2001.[21] Two quarterly journals- Artha-Journal of Social Sciences and Mapana-Journal of Sciences and four biannual journals-Ushus-Journals of Business Management, Tatva-Journal of Philosophy, Atna-Journal of Tourism Studies and CULJ-CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Law Journal.

Some of the notable works are:

  • Guhangari: A Book on Urban Wildlife, CHRIST (Deemed to be University). A naturalist's notes on the Biodiversity at the campus.
  • Life Scripts series, published in association with Orient Blackswan
  • MindScripts series, along with Orient Blackswan

Membership[]

The University is a member of the Association of Indian Universities[52] and International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU)[53]

World records[]

On 10 January 2011, Christ Junior College, Bangalore, under ensemble director Vineeth Vincent, in an event titled 'Can You Say Beat Box?' created the largest human beatbox ensemble in the Limca Book of Records with 2136 participants.[54][55][56][57] According to the Guinness World Records, the previous record for the largest human beatbox ensemble involved 1,246 participants and was achieved by Vineeth Vincent and Christ University (India) in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, on 5 February 2011.[58] This record was broken by Shlomo on 14 November 2011 with 2,081 participants.[59] The record was broken by Booking.com on 10 December 2013 with 4695 participants.[60]

Controversies[]

In 2008, Christ College was involved in a controversy surrounding the granting of deemed university status.[61] The institute is now a deemed to be university.[62][63][64][65][66]

See also[]

References[]

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