College Profile
St. Mary’s College (Autonomous), a premier institution of higher education, founded by the Congregation of Mother of Sorrows servants of Mary in the year 1948, plays a significant role in shaping the destiny of innumerable young coastal women in and around Thoothukudi. With a proud legacy of 72 years, the college has excelled in every discipline keeping in pace with the global trends in the academia. Enhancing human dignity by empowering the women has been its main concern. Started primarily to benefit the catholic minority, the college strives hard to reach out to the society, mostly identified as economically backward and socially underprivileged. Slow and steady progress marked the growth of the college and higher education for women gained momentum. The strong back up of committed service rendered by the teaching faculty and supportive staff has brought many laurels to our institution. Quality initiative, Quality sustenance and Quality enhancement are the keywords of every activity.
St. Mary’s College lives upto the founders’ lofty vision of making young women agents of an egalitarian society through liberative education. The pursuit of our institution is to channelise fruitfully the potentials of the young generation and help them experience a gratifying growth in their personality and career. We are proud that the college today is equipped with the best of faculty, infrastructure and systems to support its mission to teach and train women to be emotionally balanced, morally upright, spiritually integrated, socially sensitive and globally competitive. The institution imparts an education that promises an integral growth of knowledge, skills and values, thus promoting an environment of composite culture and religious harmony in the campus.
The college, affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, has attained Autonomous Status in the year 2009. Recognizing the great potential within the campus, the NAAC has reaccredited the institution with ‘A+’ grade in its fourth cycle. Learning is made more informative, interactive and collaborative with efficient and effective ICT enabled teaching. With the implementation of autonomy, the institution has been able to design its own curricula and evaluation system. The flexibility and space provided by autonomy has paved way for widening our academic arena with the inputs from the external experts and representatives from the industry in our curriculum designing exercise.