Kohima Science College

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Kohima Science College
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Coat Of Arms
Other name
KSCJ
Motto Omnia Vincit Labor (Latin)
Motto in English
Labour Overcomes Everything
Established1961
AffiliationAutonomous
Principal Lily Sema
Students2000 (as of 2021)
Location, ,
797002
,
India

25°39′57″N94°04′30″E / 25.6659°N 94.0751°E / 25.6659; 94.0751
CampusUrban
Website kscj.ac.in

The Kohima Science College, Jotsoma (KSCJ) is an autonomous government institute for undergraduate and postgraduate science education located at Jotsoma in the state of Nagaland, India. The college was established in 1961 with science education in higher secondary and under graduate levels. [1] [2]

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Kohima Science College has about 2000 students (as of 2021) enrolled in collegiate undergraduate and graduate programs and served by about 100 academic faculty and staff with a teacher to student ratio of 1:20. [3] [4]

Campus

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The Red Square

The college campus is located on the hill top of Jotsoma village, which is located four kilometres (2.5 mi) from Kohima. [5] The college campus covers an area of about 50 acres (20 ha). [6]

The institution is built on a hillock, originally measuring 200 acres (81 ha). Presently, three portions, about 50 acres altogether, have been carved out to house a water reservoir, Doordharshan Kendra Kohima and music academy.

Departments

Administration

Principal: Lily Sema

Vice Principal: Thungbeni Yanthan

Founding members:

Library

The college is endowed with a number of libraries to meet the informative needs of the students and faculty. It has a large repository of books, journals, national and international magazines, newspapers, past exam question papers and project reports.

The college is a registered user of UGC-NLIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) Programme, a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development under its National Mission on Education through ICT. The N-LIST project provides access to more than 3800 journals, 80000 electronic books and bibliographic databases to students, researchers and faculty, and also allows authorized users to download articles directly from the publisher's website. [9]

Notable alumni and faculty

Faculty members

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References

  1. "Nagaland has top 3 private colleges in Northeast". Eastern Mirror Nagaland. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  2. "Introduction". Kohima Science College. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  3. "'65% of total students in Kohima Science College are female'". The Morung Express . 14 April 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  4. "Kohima Science College women's hostel inaugurated". Nagaland Post . 13 March 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  5. "Prospectus". Kohima Science College. 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. "Kohima Science College land issue finally resolved after CAB steps in". Nagaland Post . 16 January 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  7. "Departments at Kohima Science College".
  8. "Administration".
  9. "Kohima Science College Library".