• Source: Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru

      • Mount Carmel College (MCC) is an autonomous college located in Bangalore, India, affiliated to Bengaluru City University. Its ultimate aim is to empower women with the help of education. MCC has been featured on ‘India Today’ since its conception and has continued to claim its ranking as one amongst the top twenty colleges of India every year. The college is owned and administered by the Carmelite Sisters of Saint Teresa (CSST). As a minority institution, it continues to enjoy the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. CSST was founded on 24 April 1887 by Mother Teresa of St Rose of Lima in Ernakulum in Kerala.


      Academics and accreditation


      The college offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in arts, science and commerce. The college is Re-Accredited with an A+ Grade (4th Cycle) by NAAC. A College with Potential for Excellence by UGC, Star College Status by DBT, Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India. The college has a sister institution Mount Carmel Institute Of Management which offers a post-graduation diploma in Business Management for women. The Centre for Education Growth and Research has declared MCC as the Best Women’s College in Karnataka for its ‘outstanding and exemplary contribution towards education, skill development and research’.
      In 2008, it was ranked by India Today as one of the top three colleges in Karnataka in the fields of arts, science and commerce.


      Student festivals


      Cul Ah is the cultural fest of the college that includes events such as dance, drama, music and academically driven contests like quizzes. Cross Currents is a national level Commerce Fest and Carpediem is a national level management fest, along with Manan which is a national level Humanities fest.
      These are to name a few of the fests hosted by the college.


      Notable alumni



      A. J. S. Lakshmi Shree, visual artist
      Anjali Jay, British-Indian actress and classical dancer
      Amulya, actress
      Anu Prabhakar, actress
      Anushka Sharma, actress
      Anushka Shetty, actress
      Aparna Popat, badminton player
      Deepika Padukone, actress
      Disha Annappa Ravi, environmental activist
      Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, theologian
      Faye D'Souza, journalist
      Joanne Da Cunha, Pond's Femina Goa 2013 / Actress, Model, Singer
      Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, businesswoman, technocrat, innovator, and the founder of Biocon
      Mamta Mohandas, actress and playback singer
      Margaret Alva, governor of Rajasthan and former governor of Uttarakhand
      Monisha Unni, actress
      Nandita Berry, Indian-American attorney, former Secretary of State of Texas
      Nicole Faria - model and Miss Earth 2010
      Nithya Menen, actress
      Nirupama Rao, Indian ambassador to the United States
      Pooja Umashankar, actress
      Priya Pereira, actress
      Radhika Pandit, actress
      Rajini Rao, Indian-American Physiologist and Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, principal investigator of the Rao Lab
      Roshmitha Harimurthy, Miss Diva-Miss Universe India(2016)
      Sharmiela Mandre, actress
      Teresa A Braggs, filmmaker
      Vaishali Desai, model and actress, winner of Indian title of Miss International
      Vasundahara Das, singer, actress
      Suparna Rajaram, distinguished Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University


      See also


      List of institutions of higher education in Bangalore


      References




      External links


      Official website

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