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College completes 25 years

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE JULY 5. The Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Business Management here is on the verge of celebrating its Silver Jubilee. Belonging to the Dharmasthala group of institutions, the college was started in 1978.

A trendsetter in business management education, the college was one of the first colleges in the State to impart education in that field.

Moved by the success of the college in the next 10 years since its inception, about 10 other colleges also started imparting management education taking the number of students from a mere 500 with three institutions to 3,600 students from 22 institutions functioning in the State now.

The college with its resourceful management, led by motivated teachers was the first to experiment on the Total Quality Management (TQM), which turned out to be well co-ordinated and the results in the following year said it all.

It was not just the education, which the college aimed at, but also giving it a practical orientation to the management education.

As a beginning the college started having active relationship with the top management associations and organisations in the country.

The professional bodies linked to the various employers in the different parts of the State had also worked out to the advantages of the students as many of them have been employed lucratively in management firms, software companies and various other production-based industry.

This was also the first time that industry-institute nexus was struck by a management institution.

The teachers who have served the institution included N.J.Kadamba (founder principal), T.Krishna Rao, V.T.Kulkarni and Devaraj K., who is the Principal of the college. Various overseas faculty have also addressed the college students from time to time.

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