St.Joseph’s College is an affiliated First Grade College of the Bharathidasan University. It was established in 1844 by the Fathers of Society of Jesus (The Jesuits). It was affiliated to the then Madras University in 1869. The College celebrated its centenary in 1944, sesquicentenary in 1995 and acquired the Five Star status, awarded by NAAC in 2000.
It was recognished by UGC as a College with Potential for Excellence (CPE) in 2004 and was Reaccredited by NAAC with A+ Grade in 2006. The College is owned by the Society of St.Joseph’s, a body registered under Societies Regulation Act(1860), having its office at Tiruchirappalli. This Jesuit college trains young men and women of quality to be leaders in all walks of life so that they may serve the people of the nation in truth, justice and love.
In short, education must be value-based and value oriented. Educational enterprise should have faith and justice dimension to bring about the social change. It means that the educated and the educators should be committed to faith and justice. The Jesuit educational shape student into agents of social change preparing them for concerted social action and thus paving the way to mass movements which will bring about the desired liberation.
They will in their admission policies actualize the preferential option for the poor by giving a privileged place to the week who are poor economically and academically and form them as men for others stamped with the ignatian hallmark of excellence and re-orienting itself in order to respond to the crying needs of today's society. They will also promote research in those branches of arts, sciences and relevant pedagogy which would help build a just social order.
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