The Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) 4.9.2012

The Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) is a medical college in Pune, India, in the state of Maharashtra. The college is managed by the Indian Armed Forces.

Established in May 1948 after World War II on the recommendation of the BC Roy Committee, remnants of various Indian Army Medical Corps units were amalgamated to create the Armed Forces Medical services. The AFMC undergraduate wing was established on 4 August 1962, which is celebrated annually as AFMC Day by its alumni across the globe.

AFMC has been ranked consistently among the top medical colleges of India, with the Outlook 2012 and 2015 survey ranking it second amongst all the undergraduate medical institutions of the country.

The Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow 12.4.2012

The Isabella Thoburn College, formerly the Lucknow Women's College and often called informally IT College, is a college for women in Lucknow,  India, named after its founder, Isabella Thoburn, an American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

KGMC/CSMMU, Lucknow, Academic Centenary Year 23.12.2011

The Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, Lucknow (formerly King George’s Medical College), one among the premier institutions of medical education in the country, completes a century of academic activities in 2011.

n the early years of the 20^th century, the gross inadequacy of medical and healthcare facilities available to the citizens of the United Provinces was strongly felt by the local community and its leaders.

The aspirations of the local people and their spirited pursuit of the same was finally fructified on 26^th December 1905, when the Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of the proposed medical college during his visit to India. The medical college was named after King George V.  The first batch of 31 students was admitted on 1^stOctober 1911, even before the formal opening, which finally took place on 25^th January, 1912.

St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bangalore 1.8.2009

St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bangalore, is one of the oldest colleges in the state of Karnataka with a history of more than 130 years. It has been conferred as College of Excellence by the University Grants Commission (India).  It was awarded the highest rating, A (3.73/4), in the re-accreditation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in 2007.^[2] It imparts graduate, post-graduate and research education. The college has an admission policy of preferential option for the poor.

Together with its sister institutions, the St. Joseph's College of Commerce, the St. Joseph's Evening College, the St. Joseph's Boys' High School and the St. Joseph's Indian High School, the St. Joseph's College has staff to respond to the needs of more than 5000 students. The institution has four main buildings, located in the center of the Cantonment. The St. Joseph's College of Commerce, St. Joseph's College of Business Administration, St. Joseph's Evening College and Pre-University College are in the vicinity of St. Patrick's Church and Good Shepherd Convent. St. Joseph's College itself is located on Langford Road near Richmond Circle, Bangalore.

175 glorious years of Wilson College 11.12.2007

Wilson College has a continuous history as an educational institution going back to 1832. It began as Ambrolie School in Girgaum, later seeing several changes of sites and names, eventually being called Wilson School. A collegiate section from which Wilson College developed was added in 1836.

The founder of these institutions was the Rev. John Wilson D.O., F.R.S. of the Scottish Missionary Society. John and his wife Margaret arrived in Bombay on February 14, 1829, learnt the local language and with great zeal set up schools for boys and girls of all castes and classes.

John Wilson was a linguist, an orientalist, an author. In recognition of his service to the cause of education, social awakening and scholarship, the Department of Archives, Government of Maharashtra, in 2000, honoured Dr. John Wilson as one of the Seven founders of Modern Bombay.

Fostering a tradition of  liberalism and freedom, the Scottish Principals inspired many students to be at the centre stage of the freedom struggle, Usha Mehta, Acharya Kriplani, S.A. Dange, Aloo Dastoor, B.G. Kher to mention a few.

Wilson College gave India its only Prime Minister from Bombay-Morarji  Desai, and  the Bharat Ratna  recipients P.V. Kane and O.K. Karve are also proud alumni of the institution. In 1952, the Management of college came under and autonomous Board of Governors in India. Since 1963, the college is under the John Wilson Education Society.

The Daly College 8.12.2007

The history of education in modern India is as full of interesting and inspiring chapters as the history itself. Some of the pioneering educational institutions contributing to the democratic and egalitarian fabric of the society, no less than any other modern educational institution had actually started as exclusive schools for the scions of the princely states of India. Many of these schools came up with the active participation of the British ruling establishment as well as the princely states. Story of the Daly College Indore is one such glimpse into the efforts to impart modern education to the Indian royals.

The Daly College was founded in 1882. However, the story started in 1869 when General Sir Henry Daly was appointed Agent to the Governor General in Central India. Those days, the Indore Residency School which was hitherto running in the building of the East of the Indore Residency Post Office. This in 1867 was to be called the Indore Residency College with Mr. Aberigh-Macay, as the Principal.

Henry Daly retired in 1881, and it was decided to develop the separate classes for the princes into a full-fledged school and name it "The Daly College" with an independent building. For sometime it was called the Indore Residency Rajkumar College and had a separate identity from the Indore Residency College, even though they had one Principal. However, in 1906, the Principal severed his connection with the Indore Residency College.

The first prince to pass the matriculation examination of Indian University wasSardar Madho Rao Kibe of Indore. He was also the first prince from the Daly College to take a university degree (B.A., 1899, M.A., 1904).

In 1956 Mr. R.N. Zutshi became its first Indian Principal.

Voorhees College, Vellore 10.7.2006

Sri Pratap College, Srinagar 15.6.2006

St. Bede's College, Shimla 24.2.2006co

Anglo Bengali Inter College, Bhelupur, Varanasi 23.12.2002

C.M. Anglo Bengali College  also known as C.M. Anglo Bengali Inter College and as Anglo Bengali Inter College is a boy's school in Bhelupur, Varanasi (India). It was established in 1898 by Chintamani Mukherjee.

C.M. Anglo Bengali College was established by Chintamani Mukherjee in the year 1898. The intermediate college is affiliated with U.P. Board and offers education under the 10+2 education system. School campus is situated in Bhelupur, a southern suburb of Varanasi.

Cotton College Centenary 26.5.2002

Cotton College is an institution for higher education located in the heart of Guwahati, Assam, a northeastern state of India.

Cotton College was declared open on May 27, 1901 by Sir Henry Stedman Cotton, K.C.S.I., the then-chief commissioner of the erstwhile British province of Assam. The college was named after Sir Henry, as "Cotton College", in appreciation of his genuine concern for the cause of higher education in the province. The college was started with five professors, which included Frederick William Sudmerson, the first principal of the college, and 39 students.

Cotton College was the centre of the freedom movement and the literary and cultural movements of the state to build the identity of Assam as a distinct integral component of India.

On October 16, 1992, the college was declared as a center of excellence, an occasion celebrated in a solemn ceremony with Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then-President of India.

Cotton College celebrated its centennial with a year-long program from May 27, 2001 to May 26, 2002.  

Bethune Collegiate School 7.5.1999

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851), previously John Elliot Drinkwater, a barrister and law member of the Governor-General's Council, was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and a pioneer in promoting women's education in 19th-century India. When his father added 'Bethune' to his name, he did likewise. In 1849, Bethune founded an institution for women's education in Calcutta (now Kolkata), then the capital of British India. The institute later bore his name and became famous as Bethune College.

Bethune Collegiate School was established in 1849. The school is affiliated to W.B.B.S.E. and W.B.C.H.S.E. The midium of instruction is Bengali. This is a girls school. Bethune Collegiate School is a leading girl's school in north Kolkata. It was started as the Hindu Female School and blossomed into the Bethune School on 7 May 1849. The School was founded by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune.

Bethune College is a women's college in India. It was founded as a school in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, and in 1879 developed into the first women's college in India, after whom it is named as Bethune College. It is located in Kolkata, and is affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

125 Years of Vidyasagar College 29.7.1998

Vidyasagar College named after Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, is a government-sponsored morning day and evening college, affiliated to the University of Calcutta in Kolkata, India. It was formerly known as Metropolitan Institution.

Vidyasagar College was founded in the year 1872. The birth of the first private and truly secular college in the Presidency of Bengal was hailed as a landmark in the academic and cultural ethos of India. It was the great Indian educationalist and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar who was associated with the College from its very inception in 1872.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian Bengali polymath and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. He was a philosopher, academic educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist. His efforts to simplify and modernize Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalized and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780.

He received the title "Vidyasagar" (in Sanskrit vidya means knowledge and sagar means ocean, i.e., Ocean of Knowledge) from Sanskrit College, Calcutta (from where he graduated), due to his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy. Noted Bengali mathematician Anil Kumar Gain founded Vidyasagar University, named in his honour.

SKCG Autonomous College 25.5.1996

SKCG Autonomous College is an educational state autonomous college situated in Paralakhemundi, on the south geographical part of Odisha.

The history of growth and development of the college is an account of the ardent zeal and dedicated endeavour of the former rulers of Paralakhemundi for the spread of education in Odisha. This illustrious institution was founded in 1896 under the munificent patronage of the Raja of Paralakhemundi "Shri Shri Shri Goura Chandra Gajapati Narayana Deo". In the same year it obtained affiliation as a second grade college from the Madras University. Due to the initiative and continued efforts by our foster father, Maharaja Sri Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayana Deo the college was upgraded to the status of a first grade college in 1936.

200th Anniversary of The College of Engineering, Guindy Madras 19.12.1994

125th Anniversary of The St. Xavier's College, Bombay 4.12.1994

Meerut College Centenary 25.4.1993

D.A.V. Centenary 27.6.1989

D.A.V. Institutions all over the country are known for bringing out the best in students and for inculcating in them a sense of dedication, patriotism and discipline. The contribution of D.A.V. Movement towards the field of education and social reforms are worth mentioning. 

Maharishi Dayanand, the founder of the reformist movement of Arya Samaj, believed that only education can awaken society. On his death the D.A.V. Movement was started in his memory in 1885. The first D.A.V. School was established in Lahore on 1st June 1886, later upgraded to a college in 1889. Since then the movement has marched from strength to strength, playing an important role in transforming the Indian psyche towards a modern outlook. 

At present 125 degree colleges are being run in the country by the Arya Samaj Organisation. About 30 lakh students receive education every year. The emphasis has always been on the integrated development of the personality of the pupils. Since 1981, the society has expanded its field of educational activity by starting various job-oriented courses, like Rural Development, Journalism, Mass Communication, Computers and Management.  

Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics 19.4.1989

Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics is one of the oldest and the first Commerce College of India. Being one of the most popular colleges of India, the college attracts its students from all over the world. The college is famous for its notable alumni which included Dr. B.R Ambedkar.

The College has been famous for availing the assistance and guidance of notable British and Indian Scholars, Industrialists, bankers, Accountants etc.

Mohindra College Patiala 14.3.1988

Established in 1875, Mohindra College Patiala, Punjab, is the oldest institution of contemporary higher learning in Northern India.

Mohindra College was the first institution in Punjab to receive A+ grade from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of the Government of India. The college offers undergraduate and graduate level education in basic sciences, political science, languages, history, public administration, commerce, computer applications, agriculture science, biotechnology and clinical diagnostics.