Christ University

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]

CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Former names
Christ College,
Christ University
MottoExcellence and Service
TypePrivate, Deemed University
Established15 July 1969 (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

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 a campus spread over 75 acres at Kengeri on the Bangalore-Mysore highway SH 17 which houses the Faculty of Engineering, PU Residential college, the Institute of Management which offers MBA programmes as well as College of Architecture Which was started officially from 2017.[12] CHRIST (Deemed to be University) also has a 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 [24]
YearRank
2020
2019
2018 8
2017
2016
2015
2014 18
2013 23
2012 31
India Today higher education ranking [25]
CourseRank 2005Rank 2006Rank 2007Rank 2008Rank 2009Rank 2010Rank 2011Rank 2012Rank 2013Rank 2014Rank 2015Rank 2016Rank 2017Rank 2018Rank 2019Rank 2020
Bachelor of Business Administration NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4
Bachelor of Computer Application NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1
Mass Communication NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 3 3 3 2 3 7 8 8
Science 10 10 10 8 13 7 6 6 4 4 3 3 1 8 8 9
Commerce NA NA 5 6 4 5 5 6 5 4 4 3 2 5 NA 7
Humanities NA 12 8 6 6 8 5 6 10 6 4 3 3 7 NA 8
Law NA NA NA NA NA NA 15 16 13 12 12 7 5 10 11 12
Hotel Management NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 4 6 8 11 11
Master of Social Work NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 6 7 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 [26][27]
CourseRank 2015Rank 2019
Arts 9 12
Commerce 6 8
Science 8 16
Law 26 16
Hotel Management 15 -

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.[28] 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:

Membership

The University is a member of the Association of Indian Universities[29] and International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU)[30]

Notable alumni
Name Field of notability Notes
Aindrita Ray Kannada actress
Anjana Menon Malayalam film actress
Ankur Betageri poet, fiction writer, art activist
Francis George former Member of Parliament represented the Idukki Constituency, Chairman of Janadhipathya Kerala Congress
Gautham Karthik Tamil film actor
Gokul Suresh actor
Gouri G. Kishan actress
Jahnavi Kamath film actress
K M Chaitanya Kannada film maker, theatre director
Krishna Byre Gowda M.L.A. Karnataka President, Karnataka Youth Congress
Leona Lishoy Indian film actress and model
M. N. Reddi senior officer in the Indian Police Service
Madhukeshwar Desai CEO, Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
Madonna Sebastian Malayalam film actress debut in the Malayalam film Premam
Meghana Raj South Indian actress
Nanditha Shwetha Kannada actress and South Indian model
Nicole Faria Miss Earth 2010
Nidhhi Agerwal Bollywood and Telugu actress, Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2014 finalist
Pearle Maaney actress and model D 4 dance anchor,
Prateik Jain Model
Raja Krishna Menon film writer, director and producer.
Reba Monica John South Indian actress debuted in the movie Jacobinte Swargarajyam
Rima Kallingal Malayalam film actress
Roysten Abel Indian theatre director and playwright
Sabbah Haji Director of Haji Public School
Samyukta Hornad Kannada film actress
Sruthi Hariharan actress
Vijay Suriya actor
Vineeth Vincent beat boxer

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.[31][32][33][34] 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.[35] This record was broken by Shlomo on 14 November 2011 with 2,081 participants.[36] The record was broken by Booking.com on 10 December 2013 with 4695 participants.[37]

Controversies

Christ University was involved in a controversy surrounding the granting of deemed university status. According to norms, before the status is granted, the affiliating university (Bangalore University in this case) and the State Government are required to submit a "No-Objection Certificate" (NoC) to the University Grants Commission (UGC). The state government refused to grant the request for an NoC. The UGC relied on the NoC from Bangalore University and the NoC from the state government was not a requirement and recommended university status to the institution. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India based on the UGC recommendation granted the University status.[38] The institute is now a deemed to be university.[39][40][41][42][43]

See also

References
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