Institutional Distinctiveness

• Govt. Degree College Baramulla has a rich history and glorious past spread over 80 years. It is an institute of distinction among the galaxy of higher education institutes and has many such strengths and distinctions. But one area has always remained priority since ages and has now further been strengthened and focussed i.e. “Technology driven Teaching-Learning”.

• The College ensures to impart quality education to all its students with an aim to enhance their intellectual ability and tries to nurture their talents and improve their skill.

• The College strives to prepare its students not just for examinations, but for the journey of life.

• The learners are imparted with ideas of social justice and self-reliance rooted in a sense of morality as well as freedom.

• This is done through a series of regular measures so that tradition and modernity are attempted to be blended.

• The Institution seeks to impress upon its students the importance of navigating through the journey using knowledge, skill, courage, and humanness as the guiding lights.

• With this goal in mind, the Institution uses all means at its disposal to encourage the growth of personality and character.

• Excellence in teaching through proper guidance and mentoring of students, individual attention during interactions in tutorial classes, participative learning, and field based experiential learning through industrial linkages, field projects and group discussions.

• Many of its pass outs have qualified the competitive examinations, working with reputed organizations or have attained doctoral and post-doctoral degrees and established themselves in every walk of life.

• The College has witnessed great strides in outcomes in terms of the pass out students who have created niche in diverse areas, which is the reason the College has witnessed massive trends in applications to different programmes and courses.

• The College has focussed on introducing many courses which has both marketability and relevance.

• The alumni and the parents have evaluated the College positively over the years.

• Institutional Distinctive Features
• Equity and inclusiveness
• Faculty Development Programmes (FDP)
• Skill Courses
• Empowerment of weaker sections of society

Equity and Inclusiveness.

• The college offers admission to both genders, Boys and Girls and even to third gender to the applicants from all parts of Kashmir and beyond, however the concentration of students remains in north Kashmir.

• The college also follows Govt. norms of reservation policy and admits all category of students like SC/ST/OBC/EWS/PWD/ALC and wards of defence personnel.

• The College due to its uncompromising policy of inclusiveness and excellence despite many challenges has added to the perception of stakeholders.

Faculty Development Programmes (FDP)

• The college facilitates and motivates the faculty to pursue higher degree like M. Phil and Ph.D. In the recent years four faculty members completed their Ph.D. programme under FIP scheme of UGC. The deputation of five faculty members has been recommended to Higher Education Department for accord of approval to pursue FIP. Moreover, the college conducts Teacher Enrichment Programmes (TEP) under CPE Scheme of UGC where in subject experts from varied fields are invited for talks. The teachers are also motivated to participate in conferences, workshops, seminars within and outside state.

Skill Courses

• As part of institutional mission and vision, the college has introduced spectrum of skill oriented and job-oriented training courses and programmes. The aim is to equip students with a skill in a particular area of his choice like soft skill, or agro based skill. The agro based skill programme includes Mushroom cultivation, Vermicomposting, Saffron cultivation, Extraction of Oils from Medicinal and Aromatic plants (MAPs). Moreover, the Skill oriented certificate courses like IOT, CCC, Computer Hardware, Graphics Designing. Web Designing, Media and Entertainment allied with different Sector Skill Councils have been added to the normal teaching learning process in the College. These short duration training programmes are in addition to academic subjects opted by students of various semesters. Under CBCS the students have to opt skill courses as approved by affiliating university.

  Emancipation of the weaker sections through teaching learning interventions:

• The College has played a vital role in maximizing the inclusiveness and empowerment of the weaker sections of the society. North Kashmir being hilly area often negatively impacts the education of girl students, students of backward areas, student with special physical, psychological and educational needs. The college provides special educational programmes, residential facilities to girls and students of backward regions of north Kashmir. Cutting, Tailoring centre is functional for providing skills to the girl students, so that they can achieve economic sufficiency simultaneously. To translate these goals into reality and to supplement academics with field experience, the institution has launched several community outreach initiatives through college National Service Scheme in order to build a spirit of empathy and social concern and belonging. The curricular and the extra-curricular activities are oriented in such a way that the mental health, physical disability, skill-development related requirements do not take a back seat. The institution has a thriving, lively campus and academic ambiance which emanate, inter alia, from the extra and co-curricular activities. Such activities bring hidden talents to the fore. The college strives to enrich the student's cultural and sports capabilities. The college shapes the learners into better citizens of the tomorrow enriched with self-confidence, perseverance, patriotism, and humanity. Our main aim is to empower our future generation academically and this is well evidenced by the success of our student pass outs. Many of our students are academically well enriched to be employed in many reputed institutions, organizations and in administration. The progression report available with us reveal that a good number of our students have completed NET/SLET examination and have completed Doctorate degrees (Ph.D.) and are at present working as Assistant Professors in their alma mater. A good number of our students qualified J&K Administrative service examination and are serving in this very District as District Officers. Teachers and students work with great earnestness and sincerity to achieve their goals. Moreover, a good number of the College pass outs are working abroad in IT, media and educational Sectors.

College Achievements

Following are some of the outstanding achievements of the College

• This is the only College in North Kashmir with Grade-A and CPE Status.
• The college was the first in valley to start BCA course in year 2000.
• The college is the only institution in J&K state at UG to run the following mass media related courses :
  1. Mass Comm. and Video Production (MCVP) since year 2001.
  2. Mass Comm. and Multimedia Production (MCMP) since year 2004
• The college is only UG institution in state with EDUSAT facility hooked to national beam, whose hub is at ISRO, Ahmadabad.
• The college is running PG course in Mathematics, Computer Applications and Psychology.
• Almost all the class rooms are equipped with electronic teaching aids.
• The faculty of the college is well trained in using electronic gadgets/teaching aids.