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CHRIST - Deemed to be University is a deemed to be university in
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, Karnataka, India. Founded in 1969 as Christ College, the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India conferred autonomy to Christ College in 2004. 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). The university is under the management of the priests of the Catholic religious order,
Carmelites of Mary Immaculate The Carmelites of Mary Immaculate ( la, Congregatio Fratrum Carmelitarum Beatae Virginis Mariae Immaculatae) abbreviated CMI, formerly also known as the Servants of Mary Immaculate ( ml, അമലോത്ഭവ ദാസ സംഘം), is a Cath ...
(CMI), part of Syro Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church. In 2016, the university was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with A+ Grade.


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. Chavara founded the first indigenous Catholic congregation Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) in 1831, which administers CHRIST (Deemed to be University). Established in 1969 as Christ College, the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India conferred autonomy to Christ College in 2004 and identified it as an "institution with potential for excellence" in 2006. 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)''. 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.


Campus

The university's main campus is spread over and is part of the
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Campus in the central part of
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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
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, a residential and commercial area;
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, another large neighborhood; and Jayanagar, one of the largest residential neighborhoods in Bangalore. In 2009, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) opened its Kengeri campus, which is spread over 75 acres at
Kengeri Kengeri is a suburb in Bangalore city. It is located on the western corridor along Mysore Road, bordered by Nagarbhavi to the north and Rajarajeshwari Nagar to the east. History The name Kengeri comes from the Kannada words Tengu coconut and ...
on the Bangalore-Mysore highway SH 17 and houses the School of Engineering and Technology; the PU Residential College; the School of Business and Management, which offers MBA and BBA programmes; as well as the School of Architecture, which was started officially from 2017. CHRIST (Deemed to be University) also has a Bannerghatta Road campus in Hulimavu on Bannerghatta Road, inaugurated in May 2016. CHRIST (Deemed to be University) opened its new campus in
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in July 2022, which started functioning from August 2022. The campus is 10 stories tall and spread over 16 lakhs square feet of space. Apart from these campuses, Christ has two more campuses: in
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, Pune, which was established in 2007; and in
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, established in 2013. The campuses are zero waste campuses and recycle their wet waste and used paper.


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
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of the university is always the rector of the Dharmaram Pontifical Seminary. The present vice-chancellor is Dr Fr Abraham V. M.


Academics

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


Academic programmes


Undergraduate programmes

The university offers over 50 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
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(BEd, two years), Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM, four years),
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(LLB, five years),
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(BTech, four years) and an integrated BTech/MTech or MBA (five years). Except for Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA),
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(BCom), Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BSc) programmes follow a Triple Major system. ;Wikipedia in the undergraduate programme The institution entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Centre for Internet and Society,
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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. 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 master's, 17 Master of Philosophy and 21 PhD degree programmes in Humanities, Social Sciences, Science,
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, Education, commerce and management, and Engineering. Masters programmes are of two years duration, except for
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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.


Membership

The university is a member of the
Association of Indian Universities Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is an organisation and association of major universities in India. It is based in Delhi. It evaluates the courses, syllabi, standards, and credits of foreign Universities pursued abroad and equates them i ...
and International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU)


Rankings

According to the QS India rankings for 2020, Christ is positioned 20–25. In 2019, Christ was ranked 19. Among Asian universities it is ranked 501–550. According to India Today Best Universities Survey 2022 Christ University is Ranked 2 in General (Private) University Category. According to India Today MDRA Survey of Excellence National Rankings, Best Colleges of India - Christ University is Ranked 1 for BCA Programme, Ranked 4 for BBA, Ranked 7 for Commerce, Ranked 7 for Media and Social works, Ranked 9 for Arts. India Today conducts annual surveys and rates institutions of higher education in India on several parameters. The rankings are summarised in the two tables. The Week in association with Hansa research conducted the Week-Hansa research survey and the rankings are listed in the table


Notable alumni


World records

On 10 January 2011, Christ Junior College, Bangalore, under ensemble director
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, in an event titled 'Can You Say Beat Box?' created the largest human beatbox ensemble in the Limca Book of Records with 2136 participants. 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
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, Karnataka, India, on 5 February 2011. This record was broken by
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on 14 November 2011 with 2,081 participants. The record was broken by Booking.com on 10 December 2013 with 4695 participants.


Controversies

In 2008, Christ College was involved in a controversy surrounding the granting of deemed university status. The institute is now a deemed to be university. The institute has also been under public scrutiny after allegations of sexual harassment against its faculty surfaced in June 2021.


See also

* List of deemed universities *
Dharmaram College Dharmaram College is a major seminary of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate congregation. It was relocated to Bangalore, India in 1957 from Chethipuzha in Kerala. It is the combination of the Sanskrit words dharma Dharma (; sa, धर ...
*
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References


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* {{Authority control Carmelite educational institutions Catholic universities and colleges in India Pre University colleges in Karnataka Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia Educational institutions established in 1969 1969 establishments in Mysore State