A quarter of a century may seem like still a long way to go in the history of time, but 25 years in the life of an institution is no short run. Looking back on two and a half decades of Jyothi Nivas’s existence, the track record has been marked by constantly renewed objectives, failing in line with the goal of the nation and of modern society. With zealous endeavour the college has worked to provide an educational experience to help turn out responsible human beings who,could become instruments in building a better India.

The beginnings ori the highways of collegiate education were made in July 1966, when the Sisters of St. Joseph of Tarbes opened a Christian College for Women in the cantonment. Christening it Joythi Nivas or the “Abode of Light”, the institution with 47 students and 8 staff members began its infancy with Bangalore University created in the same year. The Educational Society of Tarbes had-projected Jyothi Nivas for the eastern range of Bangalore where there was a great need for such a college. So this plot of 10 acres of land on Hosur Road was purchased earlier in 1964 with all hopes to shift in as fast as time and circumstances would permit. It turned out that the pangs of birth and crucial years of growth were experienced on the premises of St. Francis Xavier’s Girls High School in Fraser Town.

The trying early years could now be recollected with nostalgia. It was indeed a stniggle to provide opportunities for our students to achieve excellence in every field. Nonetheless no effort was spared to lay the firm foundations of a college which.believes in combining the right amount of curriculum with co-curricular and extra-curricular dimensions. Even in its first year the college had a students union and bore all the trimmings of an institution well on its way to achieve educational heights. The infectious dynamism of our founding Principal, Sr. Yvonne Marie prodded the students and staff to the highest in academics. The first batch of graduates passed out in 1970, having made the most of the modest facilities available. Read more.