Government Degree College Shopian (

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, located on a 67 kanal () campus in Shopian in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The college provides admission in more than 146 combinations involving more than 30 subjects. In addition, the college facilitates off-campus education in collaboration with

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and the Department of Distance Education of

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. The college is recognized by the UGC, under sections 2(f) and 12(b).

Location

Degree College Shopian is located in Gagren from main town

Shopian Shopian or Shupiyan (), known as Shupyan () in Kashmiri, is an administrative division of the Shopian district, located in southern part of Kashmir Valley, of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Shopian is called the ''Apple town of Kashmir'' as majorit ...

, about south of the state summer capital Srinagar and from Pulwama City.

Establishment

The college was established in 1988 by Government of J&K

Courses

The college offers three year bachelor courses in Arts, Science, Social Science, Commerce, Computer Science, Business Administration

Bachelor courses

*Bachelors in Arts *Bachelors in Arts (Social Science) *Bachelors in Science (Medical) *Bachelors in Science (Non-Medical) *BBA *BCA(Newly introduced) *B.Com * The college has introduced many job oriented subjects in 2018 which include food science & technology, bio-technology, bio-chemistry etc. GDC Shopian is the second college in Kashmir valley after Women's College M.A. Road Srinagar to start food science & technology subject as one of the core subject in UG. * The GDC Shopian College is the only college in J&K to start horticulture subject as one of the subject in science stream.

References

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