Watch | A tour of Bengaluru’s iconic college buildings
The Hindu
A video on Bengaluru’s oldest institutions, that have been providing education to students even to this day.
In the recent Budget, the Karnataka government announced that a feasibility study would be taken up to create a Heritage and Educational District. This would be in a five-kilometre radius of the Central Business District which will involve all the historical educational institutions in the area.
Here’s a look at five such iconic institutions.
1. Central College
In 1858, the British government established the Bengaluru Central High School, which later came to be known as Central College, one of the country’s oldest colleges. The 160-year-old red heritage building is now being restored at a cost of ₹155 crores by the Bengaluru City University. Today, new-age subjects like Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are taught here.
2. University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering
With a plan to match the colour of the High Court and the Central College, the University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering followed the same red colour scheme. It was the first engineering college in the State and fifth engineering college of the country. Today, around 4,100 students, across eight undergraduate, 24 postgraduate and many PhD programmes, study on this campus.
3. S.J. Government Polytechnic College
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