Public College, Samana

Public College, Samana, was founded in 1969 and is one of the co-educational institution located in Samana city of Punjab State. This affiliated college provides numerous courses in a wide of range of fields due to approval from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). Located on a 36 acre campus, it has a total student population of 2,288 and is served by a faculty of 31.

Public College, Samana, offers 18 programmess and 12 majors in Arts, Commerce, Science and Computer Applications fields. The commitment of this institute is proven by the offering of vast courses offered by this institute and the availability of appropriate facilities. Public College boasts of a range of learning facilities that aim to complement the learning facilities a student will acquire.

The library is an essential components of academic facilities and it is equipped with book collection of over 26000 books. It has more than 50 magazine and journal subscriptions on monthly basis.

The college has best of the facilities for the sports and games lovers such as eight lane synthetic track, squash court, athletic sheet swimming pool, tennis court, table tennis tables, boxing arena, basketball volley ball and multi-gym facilities. An indoor sports stadium is also being procured under construction with the help of financial grant from the UGC.

The IT facilities of the college are equally good and the computer labs are fully stocked and equipped to provide Internet facilities for preparing the students for the competitive job market of the global village. Other notable facilities are well equipped laboratory, separate hostels for boys and girls, canteen, a parking place, an auditorium and internet connectivity throughout the campus.

Public College Samana introduced a number of programmes to meet the students’ needs and their career choice. The institute owns eighteen regular courses that offer full time programmes to the students. These are BA, B. Com, BCA, B. Sc (Medical and Non-Medical), BBA, and B. Voc programmes in Food Processing and Engineering and Computer Graphics Designing. At postgraduate level, this college offers M.

Sc InformationTechnology Lateral Entry, M. A in Punjabi, History, English and M. Com The college also offers some professional diploma courses such as PGDCA and PGD in Dress Designing and Tailoring. Degree Name Total Number of Seats BA 600 B. Com 150 BCA 100 PGDCA 80 B. Sc Medical 50 Admission procedure at Public College, Samana, is kept on simple as possible for students for easy understanding.

The college has noted that the admission to any programme in the college is largely based on merit. For some courses as well as for some postgraduate have entrance examination. The college also has limited provisions for an applicant to join at a different level in some programmes for instance the M. Sc Information Technology.