Ramnarain Ruia College

Ramnarain Ruia College
Motto Explore, Experience, Excel
Established June 1937 (June 1937)
Religious affiliation
 None
Academic affiliation
 University of Mumbai
Principal Dr. Suhas Pednekar [1]
Location Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
19°01′25″N 72°51′00″E / 19.0237°N 72.8501°E / 19.0237; 72.8501Coordinates: 19°01′25″N 72°51′00″E / 19.0237°N 72.8501°E / 19.0237; 72.8501
Website www.ruiacollege.edu

Ruia College is located in the central part of Mumbai close to Hindu colony, between the Dadar and Matunga railway stations. It is one of the most highly reputed colleges in the country. It comprises the Ramnarain Ruia College of Arts and Science and the Ramnivas Ruia Junior College of Arts and Science. The college has been awarded a five star rating by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India. Also the National Assessment and Accreditation Council accorded it the A Grade. The college earned a CGPA of 3.65 out of 4, which is the highest in Maharashtra. Ruia College has become the first college in the country to achieve the 'College of Excellence' status by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The college was given the Potential for Excellence status in 2010-11.

The students and alumni of Ruia college are colloquially known as Ruiaites. The katta (literally meaning meeting place, in Marathi) is a popular meeting point for Ruiaites, present and past.

The College was established in June 1937.

Ruia college won the award for the best college given by University of Mumbai for the year 2006. It has been winning the trophy in the youth festival organized by Mumbai University for the last six consecutive years.

Academics

With its varied experience and diligence, the Ruia faculty was in a position to innovate and experiment soon after the college started functioning. Considerable emphasis was placed on development of the instructional programme and evaluation procedures. Under several programmes, such as COSIP (College Science Improvement Programme) and COHSSIP (College Humanities and Social Science Improvement Programme), Ruia has successfully implemented several innovative and experimental academic programmes that won wide acclaim.

The senior college library has a large reading hall which accommodates about 400 students and the reading hall in junior college building accommodates about 200 students. Special facilities to borrow books and exam papers are available in these reading halls. The Open Shelf Library is an important unit of the library for Graduate students, with about 30,000 books readily available to students. The sub-sections are well categorised and meticulously laid out, and book selection is such as to be of great use to students specialising in different subjects. The college also provides instructional material on audio and videocassetes to the students through the audio-visual centre and AV library.

The Information Technology Centre is a fully equipped IT centre, with 60 computers for students and 9 specially for staff members, offers a variety of courses very useful to the students and faculty. The Electronics Laboratory is a very well-equipped electronics lab, with multiple power supplies and a den containing all the necessary components for the students, it is well known throughout the state as one of the best electronic labs.

The Postgraduate Study and Research Centre is the only Centre of its kind to be established in a college in Mumbai, it provides comfortable accommodation, books, periodicals and bound copies of learned journals to postgraduate and research students. It is housed in the Ruia college library, which has a large collection of about 1,50,000 books, several of which are rare and not available elsewhere.

Another feature that distinguishes the college from others in the state is the Marathi Medium Unit. This unit of the college was launched to tackle a problem faced by several students coming from state board and university students: inability to understand what they are taught in English (medium of instruction) as they have done their schooling in Marathi.

Co-curricular Activities

The Vidyarthi Pratinidhi Mandal (VPM) was founded to enable students of the college to be in close touch with the teacher and members of the management, the VPM was constituted as a student body in 1969. It has been highly successful in encouraging in student participation in a variety of co-curricular activities.

Numbering about 20, there are different Co-curricular Associations which enable students with varied interests to participate in intra- and inter-college activities and beyond, to tap their potential to the maximum. Ruia also has an excellent audiotorium that can accommodate about 400 students. Another well-equipped 150-seat auditorium, with video projection facilities, has also been set up recently.

The Ruiaite (college magazine) has been published annually since 1937, earning for itself a reputation far beyond the aspirations of most other college magazines. It has won several prestigious awards over the years. The Gymkhana is fully equipped with badminton court, shooting range and highly sophisticated exercising equipment, made available for use by the students and faculty of the college.

Support for disadvantaged students

The Students Mutual Aid Fund (SMAF) was started in 1948 with the intention of helping out those deserving students who required financial assistance. It now extends benefits to the economically disadvantaged students through lunch coupons, paying fees and issuing sets of books on loan. It arranges exhibitions and other programmes to augment its funds.

There is also a Cell for Visually-Challenged Students (known as SVC by the Ruiates) in which the college has provided excellent facilities for the visually challenged - Robotron to read for the students, computer to translate as well as give printouts of Braille into English and a computer to talk to these students are great assets.

Courses

Undergraduate degree courses

Postgraduate courses

Diploma courses

Certification courses

Notable alumni

Ruia alumni comprise a galaxy of eminent individuals from different walks of life. To cite a few names: [2] [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Index".
  2. ↑ "Ruia College Profile".
  3. ↑ "Ruia College Alumni Association (RCAA)".
  4. ↑ "Spruha Joshi - Marathi Sanmaan". Marathi Sanmaan. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
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