The city of Bangalore is known as Silicon Valley of India, it has the highest figure of educational institutions particularly engineering colleges, and some of these engineering colleges are holding the pride of being the best engineering colleges in India.

Since Bangalore University offers the best quality of education, its graduates are absorbed by corporate sector, multinationals companies and industrial houses. The list of government colleges offering education to the students in the city of Bangalore is given below:

Medical College:

• Bangalore Medical College

Engineering Colleges:

• Bangalore University Visveswarya College of Engineering

• Sr. Krishnarajendra Silver Jubilee Technology Institute

• Institute of Bioinformatics and applied biotechnology

Pharmacy College:

• Government College of Pharmacy

Commerce College:

• Government R.C. College of Commerce

Arts & Science Colleges:

• Central College - Near Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore

• Government Arts College - Near Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore

• Maharani’s Arts & Commernce College for Women - Near Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore

• Lalbahdoor Shastri Government First Grade College - Vijayanagar

• Government Arts, Commerce & Science College - Ganganagar

• Government First Grade College - Krashnarajapurum

• Dr. S. Gopalaraju Government First Grade College - Anekal

• Government First Grade College – Hesaraghatta

A small description about these government colleges can be obtained from the information given below:

Medical College:

Bangalore medical college is the only government medical college in the city of Bangalore and the college has been among the top ten medical colleges in India consistently. The college came into existence in the year 1955 and it is offering MBBS course, MD and MS in different branches of medicine, several other para-medical courses as well in the following streams:

• Ophthalmic technology

• Operation theatre technology

• Dialysis technology

• Medical records technology

• Health inspection

• Medical X-ray technology

• Medical lab technology

Engineering Colleges:

As mentioned earlier, Bangalore is famous for engineering colleges since it has a number of private engineering colleges. Most of the government run engineering colleges in the city are affiliated to Visvesvarya Technological University and these colleges offer the following courses:

• Bachelor of Technology in

o Silk technology

o Textile technology

• Bachelor of Engineering in

o Civil engineering

o Electronics & communication engineering

o Computer science & engineering

o Bioinformatics

o Cheminformatics

o Biotechniques

• Master of Technology in

o Textile technology

o Electrical Engineering

o Electronics and communication engineering

• Ph. D

Pharmacy College:

Government College of Pharmacy came into existence in the year 1964 and the college is offering Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Pharmacy Courses with affiliation from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. The college holds the pride of being one among the top ten pharmacy colleges in India.

Commerce College:

Government Ramanarayana Chellaram College of Commerce and Management has been in the educational arena for more than 50 years and the college holds the pride of being the only government college to offer MBA course in the state of Karnataka. The college is also offering other courses like:

• Bachelor of Commerce

• Bachelor of Business Management

• Master of Commerce

• Master of Tourism Administration

• Master of Financial Accounting

• Master of International Business

Arts & Science Colleges:

There is a long list of government-run arts & science colleges in the city of Bangalore and most of these colleges offer arts & science courses with affiliation from Bangalore University. These colleges offer commerce courses in addition to arts & science courses and some are offering Ph. D courses as well.

With these government-run colleges and several other private colleges, the city of Bangalore is thronged by corporate world to grab talents for their organizations. The city is acting as a home for several top-rated universities as well in addition to the popular Bangalore University.