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The National College is one of the Seventeen Institutions run by the National Education Society of Karnataka which was established in 1917 with the aim of inculcating the Nationalistic ideals.The college was established in 1945 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the National High School.Since its inception.the college has grown enormously, becoming synonymous with ‘ Value based higher education ‘ .Symbolizing all the value of the National Education Society, founded by men of vision with rare commitment to the nation building, the National college in its six decades of existence has richly contributed to the overall development of the society.

The college can pride itself in having produced not only meritorious professionals but also able administrators and men of science with impeccable moral fiber in them. Many alumni of the college have carved a niche for themselves not only within the country but the outside as well.

Besides its’ stress on academic excellence, the college with its consistent encouragement to extra curricular activities, has produced eminent Theatre and Cine Artists, Sports personalities of national and international reputation. The college, which has been hallowed by the visits of great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, endeavours relentlessly to promote the ideals of secularism humanism and scientific spirit enshrined in the Constitution of India. No wonder then, the National College, Basavanagudi, is one of the most sought after colleges in the state.

An important milestone in the history of the college is the grant of academic autonomy to the college by the University Grants Commission. A UGC committee visited the college in 2004 and after going through the past achievements and present potential of the college, recommended the college to be declared an Autonomous institution with effect from 2005-06. However, the college decided to implement autonomy with effect from 2006-2007.

Under autonomy the college is free to have its own academic calendar and programmes. Each department will have its own syllabus, ratified by the Board of Studies consisting of University nominees, Subject specialists from, the institutions of fame and members from high profile corporate sector. The college conducts the examinations as per the well-established norms. The college will publish the results and any discrepancies will be attended to by the college administration. The college will issue marks cards. However, the Bangalore University, based on the recommendatios of the college, will award the Degree certificates. The  University Grants Commission has granted only academic autonomy and not the financial or administrative autonomy.

Functioning as and Autonomous Educational Institution is a big challenge as well as an opportunity to us in our untiring efforts to deliver the ‘best’ to the student community. Accordingly, we are equipped with the best infrastructure and the most advanced syllabi for all the disciplines. Educationists and Scientists of international repute are guiding our academic activities. Vastly experienced and dedicated teaching staff,
computerized library and state-of-art laboratory facilities have been our main strength. We have well represented Botany and Zoology Museums. Keeping in mind the contemporary requirements, we are introducing additional subjects like Communicative English, Computer Basics, and Human Resources Management. The Industry-Institution linkage for interaction, training and placement centres are well within the reach of every student. To facilitate the all-round development of the student, encouragement is given to co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The Bangalore Science Forum and The Bangalore Social Sciences Forum are the two fora housed in our college which enable the students to
procure latest knowledge in the fields of Science and Social Science. We are extremely happy with our experience of functioning as an autonomous college for the last five years. Having upgraded oursyllabi to meet an all- round development of our students, we feel proud to state that it has been quite a momentous beginning for us. We conducted all the tests, examinations as per schedule. A distinct feature has been the distribution of marks cards on the day of the announcement  of results. In consultation with the Industry leaders and the reputed academicians, we have been making our syllabus further relevant. It has been to our credit that IT companies like Infosys, HP, TCS, SAP Labs come to our college and recruit many of our students. The unique feature of the college is that it is managed by the National Education Society of Karnataka, which is built on the Democratic Principles. Further, we have taken a step ahead by introducing B.Com course and a Post-Graduate course in Kannada and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the academic year 2010-11. The National Degree College, Basavanagudi, being an autonomous
institution is the right place for the generation ‘next’.

To give importance to co-curricular activities as it does to academic excellence has been one of the concerns of the college.  A description of a few activities of the college will reveal to the discerning reader in what sense is the college — a college with a difference and value based that matters.

The academic excellence being taken care of, it was imperative for the concerned to construct the character among the youth. This programme of building character called for an able leadership, much more than hundred percent dedication and commitment on the part of teachers. In this endeavour, the National College Basavanagudi, had this, and much more in the form of co-operative students who came with different levels of competence in various fields without losing that essential element of mischief that goes with adolescence.

To build the nationalistic spirit and character among the students, the college formed The Gandhi Study Circle with its varied activities. The foremost among them being ‘the intensive study of national literature.’  Probably it is one of the very few colleges in the state, which has a huge collection of national literature. In addition to many activities such as ‘Shramadana’ the college has the practice of lending books on national literature to students along with questions during the summer vacation. The students write essays on the topics given which are submitted after the reopening of the college. The deserving essays are awarded prizes. The objective of all this activity is to enable the students to be influenced by the great personalities and to build a character for themselves along those lines, which would be worthy of emulation.

The college is ‘value based’ in the sense that it is not concerned with churning out youngsters with university degree alone. The serious minded educationists in this college are inspired by the philosophy of Socrates that education is not a matter of filling up of a vessel with information, but it is a matter of enkindling the mind of the youth. Hence, the college is keenly concerned with the mission of keeping the young minds alive by conducting various activities, which would enkindle the young mind.