St. Joseph's College of Commerce (SJCC) is a
Bengaluru City University
Dr. Manmohan Singh Bengaluru City University (BCU), formerly Bengaluru City University, is a state university located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was formed in 2017 and renamed in 2025.
History
The university was formed in 2017 follow ...
-affiliated college operated by the
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...
. It is autonomous and has an independent examination and recognition system. It is situated in central
Bangalore
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...
at Brigade Road. The college is ranked 55th among colleges in India by the
National Institutional Ranking Framework
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a ranking methodology released annually by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The framework was approved by the former Ministr ...
(NIRF) in 2024.
History
The college traces its history to 1882, when the
Missions Etrangeres' de Paris established St Joseph's European High School. Its operations were handed to the Jesuits in 1937 and the Department of Commerce created in 1949. In 1972
St. Joseph's College was divided, with its College of Arts and Sciences and its College of Commerce becoming independent, although both remain under the administration of the Bangalore Jesuit Educational Society. St Joseph's College of Commerce (SJCC) and St Joseph's College of Business Administration (SJCBA) moved to 163, Brigade Road, and St Joseph's Evening College became an independent college.
In 1996 SJCBA started offering two-year, full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) with recognition from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Govt Of India. By an order of the government Karnataka, the pre-university sections from both St Joseph's College of Arts & Science and St Joseph's College of Commerce were bifurcated to form into one junior College,
St. Joseph's Pre-University College.
In 2014 SJCBA signed a
MoU to cooperate with the global body of professional accountants
ACCA in offering a joint BCom program.
Student life
Intercollegiate fests conducted annually:
* Chanakya - Flagship National level Business Fest
* CIPHER- Intra-college business fest
* Citadel - National Level Business Fest for UG students by the Erudition Club of Department of Commerce
* Spiel - Sports Fest
* Dhwani - Cultural Fest
* Enact - National Level Theatre Fest
* Virtuoso - Business Fest For BBA Students
* Kalarava - Kannada Language Fest
* Turas - Travel & Tourism Fest featuring a myriad of events
* Kalotsav - Intra-college cultural fest
* Animum - Short Film Fest.
Notable alumni
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Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid (; born 11 January 1973) is a former cricket player, ex-captain and ex-coach of the Indian national cricket team. Known for his outstanding batting technique, Dravid scored 24,177 runs in international cricket and is widely re ...
, cricket player and coach
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Shivil Kaushik, cricketer,
Gujarat Lions
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Noyonita Lodh,
Miss Diva Universe 2014
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Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai; 26 March 1965) is an Indian actor, film director, producer, television presenter, and politician. Known for his works in Telugu language, Telugu, Tamil language, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English language, Engl ...
, actor
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Ramya, actress and politician
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Vinay Rajkumar
Vinay Rajkumar (born 7 May 1989) is an Indian actor who works in Kannada cinema. The grandson of actor Rajkumar and son of film producer and former actor Raghavendra, he made his debut as a lead actor in 2014 with '' Siddhartha''.
Early lif ...
, actor
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Amritha Aiyer
Amritha Aiyer (born 14 May 1994) is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Tamil and Telugu films. Her first lead role was in the Tamil film '' Padaiveeran'' in 2018 and she has since starred in the Tamil films '' Bigil'' (2019) and '' ...
, actress
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Salil Shetty
Salil Shetty (born 3 February 1961) is an Indian human rights activist who was the Secretary General of the human rights organization Amnesty International (2010–2018) till 31 July 2018. Previously, he was the director of the United Nations ...
, Secretary-General of Amnesty International
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Devdutt Padikkal, Cricket Player
See also
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List of Jesuit sites
This list includes past and present buildings, facilities and institutions associated with the Society of Jesus. In each country, sites are listed in chronological order of start of Jesuit association.
Nearly all these sites have be ...
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St Joseph's Institute of Management
References
External links
SJCC official website
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Colleges in Bengaluru
Jesuit universities and colleges in India
Educational institutions established in 1972
Commerce colleges in India
1972 establishments in Mysore State