Sahyadri Arts College, Shimoga

Sahyadri Arts College, Shimoga, was set up in 1940 and is situated in Vidya Nagar, Shivamogga Karnataka. This co-educational college is located in an extended 79. 1 acres area and is one of the constituent colleges and is famous for its approach of providing quality education.

Officially recognised by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Sahyadri Arts College teaches 902 students across 5 courses and 3 degrees. The college boasts a talented and committed faculty comprising of 30 members, thereby, improving the student teacher ratio thereby providing care and guidance each student needs.

Sahyadri Arts College has a wide range of facilities that has put into practice for the general improvement of learning. The centre of these amenities is a library which is one of the oldest and one of the biggest in the region with over 53121 books, periodicals and reference materials available.

The partially computerised library occupies an area of 5, 292sqm and has the capacity to contain 150 students with the facilities of internet browsing and photocopying. Sahyadri Arts College provides course programmes that would suit different students’ passions effectively. This is composed of 5 full- timecourses in which the institution has an undergraduate programme as well as a postgraduate programme.

At the undergraduate level, the programmes that students can study for are BA and BSW (Bachelor of Social Work). For postgraduate education the college has MA programmes in Political Science , English, and Economics . Every student, irrespective of his or her background or requirements, can apply to get an admission at Sahyadri Arts College, based purely on their merit.

Having been centrally affiliated since the late nineties, it becomes easier to argue that sahhyadri arts college has produced many great personalities who are reckoned in their areas of specialisation.