# Christ University

Christ University, also known as Christ College, is a private deemed-to-be-university located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. On 22 July 2008, it was declared as an institution deemed to be university under section 3 of UGC Act 1956.
Christ is under the management of the priests of the Catholic religious order, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), part of Syro Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church. In 2016, the university was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with A+ Grade. Kistu jayanti college,Autonomous is often considered as a Sister College for The Christ University

## History

Christ (Deemed to be University) was born out of the educational vision of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara, an educationist and social reformer of the nineteenth century in South India. Chavara founded the first indigenous Catholic congregation Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) in 1831, which administers Christ (Deemed to be University). Established in 1969 as Christ College, the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India conferred autonomy to Christ College in 2004 and identified it as an "institution with potential for excellence" in 2006. In 2008 under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India, declared the institution a "deemed to be university" in the name and style of Christ University. Later in 2018, upon the direction of Supreme Court of India, the word university was removed, thus making it Christ (Deemed to be University). Christ was one of the first institutions in India to be accredited in 1998 by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), and subsequently in 2004, 2016 and 2022 had been awarded Grade 'A+' on 4-point scale.

## Campus

* Bangalore Central Campus
The university's main campus is spread over 25 acres (10 ha) and is part of the 100-acre (40 ha) Dharmaram College Campus in the central part of Bangalore city. It is on the extension of Hosur Road (NH 7) opposite the Bangalore Dairy Circle Flyover. The city campus is close to residential localities such as BTM Layout, a residential and commercial area; Koramangala, another large neighborhood; and Jayanagar, one of the largest residential neighborhoods in Bangalore.
* Bangalore Kengeri Campus
In 2009, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) opened its Kengeri campus, which is spread over 90 acres at Kengeri on the Bangalore-Mysore Expressway NH 275 and houses the School of Engineering and Technology; the PU Residential College; the School of Business and Management, which offers Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) programs; the School of Social Sciences offering Bachelor of Science in psychology with Honours; as well as the School of Architecture, which was started officially from 2017.
* Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) also has a campus in Hulimavu on Bannerghatta Road, inaugurated in May,2016.
* Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) opened its campus in Yeshwanthpur in July 2022, which started functioning from August 2022. The campus is 10 stories tall and spread over 1.6 million square feet of space.
* Delhi NCR Campus
This is the off-campus of CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Located in Sewa Nagar, Ghaziabad, Delhi NCR established in 2013. The campus is located near to Shaheed Sthal metro station of Delhi Metro.
* Pune Lavasa Campus
The Pune Lavasa Campus also known as the Analytical hub of CHRIST (Deemed to be University) is an off-Campus Institution of CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore, located within the Sahyadri mountain range in Lavasa, Pune which was established in 2014, the Campus is spread over 28 acres.

## Organization and Administration

The university is managed by the CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Trust, which in turn is organized by the CMI congregation, under the Syro Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church. The chancellor of the university is always the rector of the Dharmaram Pontifical Athenaeum. The present vice-chancellor is Rev. Dr. Fr. Joseph C C.

## Academics

The university has over 30,000 students and more than 1200 faculty members across all campuses. It has a foreign student community of about 700 from 58 nationalities. The university offers nationally and internationally recognised undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes.

### Academic programmes
#### Undergraduate programmes

The university offers over 50 undergraduate programmes in humanities, social sciences, science, commerce and management, education, law and engineering. Undergraduate programmes are of three-year duration except in the case of Bachelor of Education (BEd, two years), Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM, four years), Bachelor of Laws (LLB, five years), Bachelor of Technology (BTech, four years) and an integrated BTech/MTech or MBA (five years). Except for Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BSc) programmes follow a Triple Major system.

##### Wikipedia in the undergraduate programme

The institution entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore to make article writing on Wikipedia a core exercise for the continuous internal assessment of its 1600 undergraduate students in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Sanskrit and Urdu. The Hindi and Kannada articles may be found at collection of Hindi articles and collection of Kannada articles.

### Membership

The university is a member of the Association of Indian Universities, International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) and Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

## Notable alumni

| Name | Field of notability | Notes |
| Alfred O.V. IAS | Civil Service | |
| Anjana Menon | Malayalam film actress | |
| Ankur Betageri | poet, fiction writer, art activist | |
| Anne Amie | Playback singer and voiceover artist | Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer 2023 |
| Annu Antony | Malayalam film actress | Debuted in Aanandam |
| Apurva Kasaravalli | Kannada Film Director |
| Arvind Venugopal | Playback singer in Malayalam Film Industry | |
| Chandy Oommen | Former Chief Minister of Kerala | Chairman of the National Outreach Cell, Indian Youth Congress |
| Francis George | former Member of Parliament | represented the Idukki Constituency, Chairman of Janadhipathya Kerala Congress |
| Gautham Karthik | Tamil film actor | |
| Gokul Suresh | Malayalam Film Actor | |
| Gouri G. Kishan | Malayalam film actress | |
| Jahnavi Kamath | film actress | |
| K M Chaitanya | Kannada film maker, theatre director | |
| Krishna Byre Gowda | Minister for Revenue, Government of Karnataka | President, Karnataka Youth Congress |
| Leona Lishoy | Indian film actress and model | |
| M. N. Reddi | senior officer in the Indian Police Service | |
| Madhukeshwar Desai | CEO, Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) | National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha |
| Madonna Sebastian | Malayalam film actress | debut in the Malayalam film Premam |
| Meghana Raj | South Indian actress | |
| Nanditha Shwetha | Kannada actress and South Indian model | |
| Nicole Faria | Miss Earth 2010 | |
| Nidhhi Agerwal | Bollywood and Telugu actress, | Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2014 finalist |
| Pearle Maaney | actress and model | D 4 dance anchor |
| Pradeep Hegde | Wildlife Filmmaker | |
| Prateik Jain | Model | |
| Priya Vadlamani | Model and Telugu Film Actress | |
| Raja Krishna Menon | film writer, director and producer | |
| Rajeev Ravindranathan | Actor and Comedian | |
| Reba Monica John | South Indian actress | debuted in the movie Jacobinte Swargarajyam |
| Rima Kallingal | Malayalam film actress | |
| Roysten Abel | Indian theatre director and playwright | |
| Sabbah Haji | Director of Haji Public School | |
| Sabu Varkey | Indian Hockey Team Member | |
| Samyukta Hornad | Kannada film actress | |
| Shilpi Neha Tirkey | Youngest MLA from Jharkhand | |
| Shwetha Srivatsav | Kannada Film Actress | |
| Sruthi Hariharan | South Indian Actress | Debuted in the movie Cinema Company |
| Vijay Suriya | actor | |
| Vineeth Vincent | Beatboxer | |