Saradha Gangadharan College, Puducherry

Saradha Gangadharan College was started in the year 2001 and is an emerging college situated in the Puducherry. This affiliated college established over a total area of 9. 63 acres and has been serving higher education successfully for more than a couple of decades. Recognised by the NAAC, the college provides 13 courses under eight degree programmes with total intake of 1410 students.

The college has a faculty of 63 committed teachers and a comfortable student-teacher ratio of 1:25 to deliver quality education. Saradha Gangadharan College owns various facilities which play a significant role in improving of learning environment of the students. These include a 2000 square meter general library which contains 10700 volumes of books and subscribes to 7 local and foreign journals.

There are many advantages such as collection development through sharing of online resources and availability of e-journals through INFLIBNET for the students. As a technology oriented college, the college boasts of a good IT facility needed in the completion of various academic and administrative activities.

Mimetic practical experiences include departmental laboratories in order to afford practical exposure to the subject knowledge gained by the students. A list of the courses offered at Saradha Gangadharan College includes undergraduates and postgraduate programmes. It has an academic portfolio composed o f 13 courses : 9 at the undergraduate level and 4 postgraduate level.

They include the fields in English, Commerce, Business Administration, Physics, Mathematics, computer Science and Information Technology. The college level programmes which make up the largest proportion of college courses, enro 89% of all students while postgraduate programmes provide education to the other 11% of students.

The college has enroled a total of 1,410 students being offered across the entire spectrum of programmes being offered at the college proving the fact that the college is gradually making a name for it. The courses are B. Sc in Information Technology , Mathematics, Computer Science , M. Com, M. Sc Mathematics , Computer Science, and so on.

Like most other colleges, the admission process at Saradha Gangadharan College is also very rational and has sound merit in its policies and activities aimed at the admission of students of all classes and standards. The college usually opens its admission in the summer for the academic year starting in the month of July.

The institution is particularly proud that around 12% of its student populations are from outside Puducherry. This diversity is somewhat higher in post graduate courses as 21% students come from other states compared to 11% in undergraduate courses.

The college also shows that it embraces gender diversity with a 56% female minority participation at postgraduate level but, undergraduate programmes record 70% male participation. For worthy candidates, the college proactively makes scholarships available and 122 undergraduate as well as 5 postgraduate students benefited a scholarship in the previous academic year.

These commitments drive a great deal to the activism and able diversity of this educational institution or Saradha Gangadharan College.

Saradha Gangadharan College offers scholarships for meritorious students and those economically weaker sections of society, there were a total of 108 students benefiting from scholarships or reimbursements of tuition fees. Under-graduate Scholarships: Out of 1180 under-graduate students, 105 were awarded scholarships or fee reimbursements. Thus, it constitutes around 8. 9% of the undergraduate population.

Post-Graduate Scholarships: Of the 125 students in postgraduate level courses, 3 secured scholarships or fee reimbursements. This amounts to some 2. 4% of the total postgraduate student population. The objective of the scholarship program is to facilitate quality education within the reaches of as many students as possible.

Specific scholarships are made out to inquiry from students on eligibility criteria and application process at the college's financial aid office or on the official website. This illustrates the commitment of Saradha Gangadharan College toward student success and diversity in higher education.