About Us
SJC's History
A journey from a founding vision in Tirupur to a leading women’s college—shaped by community, quality, and the motto
Educate, Empower, Explore.
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2000 Year of inception
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15+ UG programmes
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4 PG programmes
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Ph.D. Research pathway
SJC's History
In the year 1999, Very Rev. Mother. Daria and Rev.Sr. Dulsie, Principal, St. Joseph’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tirupur took up the assignment of starting a college for Women in Tirupur very earnestly with the help of Well-wishers. The dream of instituting this College has come true with the concerned help granted by Thiru. K. Subbarayan, Former Member of the Parliament, Mr. Ponnuswamy, Emperor Knitting House and Mr. Govindaraj, Geethanjali Knitting Works in receiving permission from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Thus St. Joseph’s College for Women had its humble beginning on 6th September, 2000.
The college has now emerged as one of the leading institutions of education, proliferating higher values of edification and learning, with hopes and dreams to achieve the goal “Educate, Empower, Explore”.
Milestones along the way
Key moments that trace how SJC grew from intent into a full-fledged centre of higher learning. Swipe on smaller screens to explore each card.
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A shared resolve
Leadership at St. Joseph’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tirupur, together with well-wishers, committed to establishing a women’s college in the city.
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Formal beginning
With government permission and generous support from patrons and the community, St. Joseph’s College for Women opened on 6 September 2000.
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Academic breadth
The college runs fifteen undergraduate, four postgraduate and Ph.D. programmes, supported by committed teaching and non-teaching staff—continuing to shape the lives of young women.
Mission in motion
St. Joseph’s College has worked through years down the corridors of time, shaping the lives of young women. It has endeavored not only to sharpen the educational skills but also to open the doors of opportunities for the young students by identifying and nurturing their various talents. It reflects a continuous journey beyond the threshold of mediocrity to ascend towards an explorative experience in quality education.
Our founder
Rev. Fr. Joseph Louis Ravel and the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Presentation of Mary
Rev. Fr. Joseph Louis Ravel is the Founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Presentation of Mary. Born on 24th August 1824 at Valeren, France, in a family of landlords, Rev. Fr. Ravel grew up in an environment of profound mysticism and entered the Major Seminary of Foreign Missions. He was ordained as a Catholic Priest on 17th June 1848.
Rev. Fr. Ravel’s compassion, unshakeable faith, nobility, and astuteness made him take up a missionary assignment with the M.E.P. Priests at Coimbatore, with Karumathampatti as its headquarters. To eradicate illiteracy, ignorance, intolerance and bias among the people, Fr. Ravel worked relentlessly categorizing himself with the people acquiring their idiom and civilization. A presbytery and a church at Wellington, the Church of Our Lady of Rosary at Karumathampatti are the fruits of his apostolic labour.
Care for the sick, education of women and fighting the evils of castes were concerns close to his heart. These motivated him to begin the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Presentation of Mary in 1863. Savariammal, an uneducated village girl from Karumathampatti was the first postulant of this new congregation. Through her and many others like her Fr. Ravel succeeded in inculcating the great Law of Charity in the society.
After 32 years of productive and altruistic service as a devoted servant of God this noble soul commended his spirit in the hands of Our Lord on 31st January 1881, inspiring his followers: To live as the living teaching of the great law of charity, which is the true foundation and beautiful summary of the Christian religion.
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