St. Xavier's College, Mumbai is named after a Jesuit saint, St. Francis Xavier. It is located in Mahapalika Marg Fort. The Society of Jesus has founded this institution on 30th January 1869. It is basically a Catholic educational institute and works towards social transformation. It offers Degree courses in Science, Arts and Commerce.
Departments of the College:
There are several departments in this college, such as, Chemistry, Microbiology, Political Science, Zoology, Mathematics, Psychology, History, Life Science, Geology, Botany, English, Physics, Statistics, Commerce, Hindi, Sociology, French and Economics.
This well-known college of Mumbai comprises a Knowledge center and a library (having a stock of more than 120,000 volumes of books). Presently, St. Xavier's College campus houses St. Xavier's Institute of Education, The Xavier Institute of Communications and St. Xavier's Technical Institute. The first one offers Teacher Training to its pupils.
Students’ Association:
Apart from this, the college also has a student association, Students' Union Council, The Adventurers' and Mountaineers' Club and Indian Music Group.
|
Students who are interested in writing can submit their articles to the college authority that are published in the magazines.
People belonging to Catholic religious group are given special preference during admission. This college offers under-graduate as well as graduate courses in Arts, Science and Commerce. Added to this, Post-graduate and research programs are also done over here. Its research organizations include Caius Laboratory for Inter-Disciplinary Research, Social Science Centre and Nadkarny-Sacasa Research Laboratory.
Other Interesting Aspects of the College:
In 1912, this famous Mumbai College opened its door to the female students. Then Fr. Sterp had been the Principal of this College.
Dr. Frazer Mascarenhas is the present Principal of this college, whereas, the Vice-Principals are Dr. Nandita Mangalore, Dr. Fleur D'Souza, Errol Fernandes and Dr. Vivien Amonkar.
Malhar is the name of St. Xavier's College's inter-collegiate festival. In this fest, a number of interesting quiz competitions and several other live performances take place. Usually, on August this festival is being arranged.
|
