Affiliated College
The History usually mirrors the life and activity of the Institution during the preceding year. Speaking of the past, we are filled with admiration and gratitude for those stalwarts of a byegone age: the Fathers of the Paris Foreign Mission. Imbued with vision and foresight, iron will and steely determination, unflagging zeal and dauntless courage, they planted a seed in the “Garden” on St. John’s Hill, nurtured it through the years, and, when the time was ripe, transplanted it to an imposing building, which is now St. Joseph’s College, PUC Section. They were men of deep faith and bard toil, all of them: Vissac and Browne, Froger and Veysseyre, Blaise and Michel, and the great Aucouturier. We salute these giants and place on record our abiding gratitude. When the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, who are managing the School, at present, took it over in 1937, they were faced with the daunting challenge of living up to the high standards set by their predecessors. It is a matter of joy for us to know that during these odd years, we have tried hard, and to a great extent succeeded in meeting that challenge. It has been for us a thrilling adventure as thrilling as the task of an athlete determined to break records. Some records we ourselves have set, and some set by others before us, we have broken.
It was his dreams and hope to build a new world. A far better world – one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. This was the beginning of a long journey of a man, Who dared to dream and then made those derams a reality. He believed that if you wan to leave the foot prints in the sands of time,never drag your feet. Have a vision and a mission and then work to see they become a reality.
“Gnanagangotri – Spring of Knowledge” was born out of a visionary’s passion to educate the masses. A noted entrepreneur,industrialist and philosopher Sri M.S.Ramaiah had the foresight to envision a huge leap in the demand for qualified professionals in various disciplines. The Gokula Education Foundation (GEF) was founded in 1962 to give brilliant, motivated and committed students a conducive platform to pursue higher education and to realize their dreams and equip themselves to take on the world.
M. S. RAMAIAH MEDICAL COLLEGE, was started in the year 1979 and has since grown into an institute of recognition and repute in India and abroad. Housed in a spacious campus of 65 acres – Gyana Gangothri or the ‘Spring of Knowledge’ adjoining the famous Indian Institute of Science, located just 7 kms from Bangalore city. Bangalore, famous for the Information Technology Industry, also known as the “Silicon Valley”, is well connected across the globe. The main college building is a spacious structure; “Vidya Soudha” has a total floor area of 3 lakh square feet with an adjoining teaching hospital with 1050 beds. The teaching hospital offer a range of clinical specialties, modern diagnostic facilities and has all the amenities of a modern hospital. The Medical College is the nucleus of a number of institutions in health sciences and para-medical branches. The M. S. Ramaiah Dental College, College of Pharmacy, Institute of Physiotherapy, College of Nursing, have all been set up to cater to various fields of medicine. There are super specialty services in the new block named as “M. S. RAMAIAH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL”. The hospital offers all the modern amenities at one stop and is an add-on to our clinical facilities.
M. S. RAMAIAH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL has the state-of-the-art facilities to deal with any kind of investigations and is comparable to any hospital of repute across the globe. The department of Radio diagnosis is complete with facilities like Helical CT scanning, MRI, Color Doppler Unit, Ultrasound and Mammography. The department of Cardiology has a dedicated Cathlab, Heart Rhythm Management unit including Electro-physiological section for studies in three dimensional mapping and Ablation. Cardiac bypass and valve replacement are done as routine procedures by department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery. Super speciality facility exists in Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Gastro-Enterology, Nephro- Urology, Endocrinology, Cardiology and Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery & Vascular Surgery.