Besant Evening College, Mangalore: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Established in 1976, Besant Evening College in Mangalore is a co-educational institution affiliated with the Mangalore University. It is an affiliated college situated in Kodailbail, Mangaluru, Karnataka, with NAAC accredited ‘B’ graded and UGC approved. 5 courses are taught in this college across 3 degrees with focuses on Commerce, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. The students in undergraduate level are 55% female students and 42% female students in the post-graduate level. The institute boasts a faculty strength of 14 members and maintains a student-faculty ratio of 14:1.

The following are the facilities offered by Besant Evening College in order to improve on the learning facilities available for the learners. The college possesses a vast collection of books, periodicals, journals, and magazines concerning trade, commerce and industries separately equipped with reading room. The campus has an air conditioned auditorium that accommodates up to 200 students and has facilities for projector and seminars related to audio-visual categories. The IT infrastructure of the university has a well-furnished computer lab with modern apparatus for students and faculties. The college also provides sports facility, canteen, nutritionally healthy food facility and separate laboratories like commerce lab, English language lab etc along with providing excellent infrastructure for organising practicals and project work.

According to the academic profile of the institute, there is total 5 courses in which some are undergraduate and some are post graduate. These programmes are offered on a full time basis with 4 undergraduate programmes and one postgraduate programme. The undergraduate programmes include B.Com, B.Com Computer Application, B.Com Computer Science and BA and the postgraduate programme offered is M.Com.  At present, total enrolment of the college has been 182 undergraduate students and 19 postgraduate students of the most recent academic year.

Besant Evening College follows the process of merit and the criteria set by the college to enrol the candidate for any particular course. Admission procedure in the college also include interviews for all the programmes the college offers. However, they should obtain eligible marks in their qualifying examinations and there are no entrance test mentioned. The college has a number of scholarships that the college provides to allow deserving and economically needy students to enjoy, such scholarships include Management Scholarship, Free Refreshment Scholarship, PTA Scholarship, Munnade Scholarship as well as the Alumni Scholarship. These are given in consideration of academic achievement, financial need and such other conditions as the institution may provide.