SCOTT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (Autonomous) Scott Christian College is a Christian minority, autonomous, co-educational, aided institution established in 1893 as an arts and science College. It enjoys the 2(f) and 12(b) status of the UGC Act and houses both government aided and self-financed courses. It has 15 UG programmes, 12 PG programmes, 10 M.Phil. programmes with equal number of research centres. With autonomous status from the year 2005, the College enjoys higher standards and wider acceptability. The College is re-accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ Grade in the year 2009. The College envisages a wholesome personality for the students and aims at the all-round growth of faculty and scholars in its 121 years of educational ministry.
Department of Chemistry & Research Center
Department of Chemistry in Scott Christian College (Autonomous) is one of the well-recognized departments in the state, well known for its excellence in teaching and research. It was established in 1952, upgraded as a PG department in 1982 and a fully fledged research center in 2005. It celebrated its Diamond Jubilee in 2012-13. It has highly qualified and dedicated team of faculty members. The Department has well equipped, separate laboratories for UG, PG and research students. Individual attention makes the laboratory training enjoyable and rewarding for every student.
The department is well known for its research works in thrust areas like photochemistry, environmental chemistry, polymer nanocomposites. electrochemistry, synthetic organic chemistry and radiation chemistry. It is credited with scores of publications in reputed national and international journals and several ongoing minor and major projects from UGC, ISRO and DRDO. The research laboratory is funded by DST-FIST and well equipped with modern instruments. More than 35 Ph.D scholars and an equal number of M.Phil scholars are currently pursuing their research activities. Our former students are working in prestigious institutions like National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Central University, Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Technology-Besides these our students have entered into Indian Administrative and Foreign Services also. |