Government Degree College Kokernag www.gdckokernag.edu.in is a

college A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offerin ...

Kokernag Kokernag is a sub-district town and a notified area committee in Breng Valley (The Golden Crown of Kashmir), Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The place is known for the botanical gardens, pristine freshw ...

town and famous tourist resort of

Anantnag Anantnag (/ə'nʌntna:g/ or /-nɑːg/ ), also called Islamabad, is the administrative headquarters of the Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is located at a distance of 53 kilometres (33 miles) from the u ...

in Jammu and Kashmir. It is affiliated to the

University of Kashmir The University of Kashmir (U-K, UoK), informally known as Kashmir University (KU), is a collegiate public state university located on the western side of Dal Lake in the city of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India which was established in 1948 ...

in Srinagar and was recently accessed by NAAC, Bangalore for Assessment and Accreditation and was accredited with by the same University Grants Commission agency. It is a co-educational college, founded in 2008. During the initial years the college functioned in dilapidated huts in the premises of the Higher Secondary School,

. www.gdckokernag.edu.in Now the college has been shifted to Irkumu, Kokernag, which is about two kilometres from the main township and has a lush green campus with snow-clad mountains in the background. It now has a suitable infrastructure which satisfies the basic demands of students. As of year 2019, the college has about 1,800 students on roll and about 55 teaching and non-teaching staff to cater the students. The college offers following bachelor's degree courses: #

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(BA) #

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

(BSc) The college was allowed to offer the Bachelor of Science program from the year 2017. In addition to the regular courses offered, the college got IGNOU membership in the year 2018 to run the non-regular or distance courses in future.

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