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admission process. Information about programs such as Joseph‘s Outreach program is
made available to the parents and students during interview.
 The Help Desk responds to any queries immediately and the College has a
Grievance Committee to look into any complaints. Once the interview is completed,
the application of the selected candidate is countersigned by the interviewing faculty.
The selected candidate meets the Principal with his/her parents who countersigns it
for further processes of payment of fees in order to complete the admission process.
The candidate is then given twenty-four hours to pay the fees. The College strictly
does not collect or accept any donations at the time of admission. Notices to this
effect are posted on as many places as possible for the information of the applicants.
 The process is entirely transparent and follows all the norms and procedures laid
down, as mentioned above. No eligible student, including those from the reserved
categories (including SC/ST/OBC/PH, students from Foreign Boards, and students
who apply under the Sports Category) is refused admission, subject to availability of
seats. Since the entire admission process is computerized, data on the number of
students admitted in each subject on each day is available. After the completion of the
admission process an auditor of admissions is appointed to study the process and a
report is prepared. Members of the faculty who are part of the admission committee
are involved in the admission process on a rotation basis.

2.1.2: Explain in detail the process of admission put in place for UG, PG and
Ph.D. programs by the College. Explain the criteria for admission (Ex. (i) merit,
(ii) merit with entrance test, (iii) merit, entrance test and interview, (iv) common
test conducted by state agencies and national agencies (v) others followed by the
College?

The admissions office takes care to inform all interested candidates about admission
criteria to various courses. All courses follow the guidelines of Bangalore University,
which is the affiliating university regarding admission requirements. Besides merit
being taken into consideration, some courses have merit plus entrance test. All
courses have interviews. The requirements are mentioned below:

*Undergraduate Courses:
Eligibility criteria for admissions to undergraduate courses [B.A./B.Sc./B.S.W./B.A.
Visual Communication, B. Voc. Visual Media and Filmmaking and B. Voc. Digital
Media and Animation courses]:
The candidate should have completed 12 years of schooling in 10+2 pattern of
Karnataka PUC/ISC/CBSE/NIOS/IGCSE/IBor from any recognized Board in India or
abroad with any combination of optional subjects or any other examination
recognized as equivalent thereto. Such students shall be eligible for admission to the
B.A. courses, namely
HEP: History - Economics - Political Science
EPS: Economics - Political Science - Sociology
IES: Industrial Relations - Economics – Sociology
EJP: Optional English – Journalism & Creative Writing - Psychology
CPE: Communicative English - Political Science - Economics
B.A. Visual Communication

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