Devagiri College, Kozhikode

	File:Devagiri College - Kozhikode, old Basketball court and Banyan tree.jpg Latin: Pro Deo Et Patria; ("For God and Country")
Location
	Devagiri,Kozhikode, Kerala
Information
Established	1956
Founder	CMI congregation
Affiliations	University of Calicut
Former students	Devagirians
Website	devagiricollege.org

St. Joseph's College, popularly known as Devagiri College, is a college in Calicut, Kerala state, India offering graduation and postgraduation courses in arts and science. Students and alumni of the college are termed ‘Devagirians’. The college is in the Devagiri hills about 8 km east of Calicut (Kozhikode) city.^[1] It is run by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), an indigenous religious congregation founded in 1831.

History

Envisioned by the CMI congregation and established in 1956, St. Joseph's College was inaugurated by the then-governor of Madras.The college added two postgraduate departments and a sports pavilion within five years of its inception. First affiliated to the University of Madras and then to the University of Kerala, the college is now under the University of Calicut.

Devagiri has turned out more than 120 toppers in university examinations, and come out the university athletic champions seventeen times.^[2]

Academics

Devagiri won 15 ranks in an academic year. With ten post-graduate departments. It has four research centres, and wings offering M. G. University's off-campus programmes and courses recognized by DOEACC and ICAI. The college has won 150 first and second ranks since 1962. Nearly 100 students have passed the UGC-CSIR and JRF examinations from the college.^[3]

Sports

^[4]

K Abdul Rahiman, volleyball, represented India in international championships
Jose George, volleyball, 1978 Asian Championship, 1991 Indian Team Coach
Jimmy George, Volleyball, 1974, 1978,1986, Asian Games 1977 Arjuna Award winner
Pramod Govind, basketball, 1971, Jr. Indian team
M K Manuel, volleyball, 1979, Asian Championship
N C Chacko, volleyball, 1982, Asian Games
George Kuncheria, athletics, 1986, Pre-Asian Track and Field Silver Medal in Triple Jump
Robert Boby George, athletics, represented India in Triple Jump, National Coach, Dronacharya Award Winner
Saju George, athletics, attended Long Jump Training Programme in the USA
Sreesh T R, volleyball/BeachVolley, 2003 Gold Medal in World Customs Beach Volley Championship
Tinu Joseph, basketball, 2003, Senior Asian Basketball Championship, Qualifying Round
Kishore Kumar E K, volleyball, since 1999 member of Indian Junior and Senior Teams. 2002, Junior Indian Team Captain; 2003, Senior Indian Team Captain; 2003, Captain Jr. team for the World Championship
Sanave Thomas, badminton, 2002 Thomas Cup England. 2002- Commonwealth Games at Manchester. 2003 World Championship – Birmingham.
Liju K Abraham, basketball, 2000- Junior Asian Championship at Kwalalampur.
Usha Nandini, handball, 2002- Indian Team Captain in the South Asian Championship at Dhaka. 1995 Best Player in SAF Games, 6 times represented India
Bobit Mathew, basketball, 2000- Junior Asian Championship at Kwalalampur.
Rajeev R, volleyball, 2003- Senior Indian Team for the Matches held at Bulgaria, Romania and Czech Republic.
Muralee Krishna A, Basketball, 2003 Senior Asian Basketball Championship at China
Vinod S, volleyball, 2000 Junior Asian Championship. 2003- Senior Indian Team for the matches held at Bulgaria, Romania and Czech Republic.
Ratnakaran K, chess, 2001 Junior Asian Championship at Tehran 3rd Place. Junior World Championship. 2004 won International Master Norm in Commonwealth Championship.
AmruthaRaj, weight Lifting, Asian Power Lifting Championship – Silver Medal. World Power Lifting Championship – 9th place
Sethumadhavan, football, Meracca Cup
Irfan K T, Walker, Olympian.
Noaha Nirmal Tom, athletics, Asian Junior Athletic Meet, collected a Silver Medal in the 4 X100 M Relay at Ranchi, in 2013.
Anu James, volleyball, represented India in the Asian Junior Championship in October 2014.
Fazil T M, volleyball, represented India in the Asian Junior Championship in October 2014.

Facilities

The six-acre campus of sprawling greenery houses a nursery, a higher secondary school, schools for the physically and mentally challenged, men’s and women’s hostels, staff quarters and a chapel. The institution has an eight-lane track stadium, an auditorium and an open-air theatre, a computerized library (one of the biggest in Kerala) of about 50,000 books and journals, 47 computers installed in departments and laboratories, and Internet facility. About half of the 75 permanent teachers are PhDs or rank holders. More than a score of forums and clubs supplement the effort of the teachers.^[5]

Recognition

St. Joseph's College, Devagiri is an Autonomous college. The college has autonomy in all academic matters and from the stage of admission to the conduct of examination to the publication of results. In January 2011, NAAC accredited the college with Grade A (CGPA 3.63) and UGC recognised it as 'College with Potential for Excellence'. Devagiri College is the topmost NAAC-accredited college in Kerala with the highest CGPA. It is for achievements of this sort that the survey conducted by India Today zeroed in on Devagiri as one of the best ten colleges in Kerala; SS Music Channel, Chennai singled out Devagiri for a special episode telecast in 2004.^[6]^[7]

സെന്റ് ജോസഫ്സ് കോളേജ്, ദേവഗിരി'

Notable faculty and alumni

Dr. Sukumar Azhikode
Prof. C.A. Sheppard
Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri
Jimmy George
Sreedharanunni, poet^[8]
Dr Ashramam Sivramasubramanya Iyer, first Keralite to secure a PhD in English from the University of London; well-known Sanskrit scholar
Sudheesh actor
Vineeth, actor
Vinod Scaria, scientist
Ranjan Pramod film director^[9]
Dinanath Puthenchery Malayalam lyricist

Image gallery

St Joseph's College Devagiri, Kozhikode.jpg
Devagiri College - Kozhikode, a tree in the garden.jpg
Entrance to St Joseph's College, Devagiri, Kozhikode,view from inside.jpg
Tagore Hostel, St Joseph's college, Devagiri, Kozhikode.jpg
Entrance to St. Joseph's College, Devagiri, Kozhikode.jpg

External links

[1] ttp://www.hindu.com/edu/2005/01/18/stories/2005011800300400.htm

[2] ttp://devagiricollege.org/?main=2&menu=1

[3] ttp://devagiricollege.org/index.php?main=3&menu=10

[4] ttp://devagirialumni.com/sports-alumni-devagiri-college.php

[5] ttp://devagiricollege.org/index.php?main=30

[6] ttp://devagiricollege.org/index.php

[7] ttp://www.universityofcalicut.info/inPagephoto/cunews/CUNews/news_3.pdf

[8] ttp://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/03/17/stories/2006031701590300.htm

[9] ttp://www.hindu.com/2009/02/16/stories/2009021651360200.htm

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