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History
St. John's College, Agra, was established in 1850 by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) of England, along with Agra C.M.S. Association, and its first principal was Rev. Thomas Valpy French (1825-1891), a fellow of University College, Oxford. In 1869-70, it had 297 students, out of which 199 were Hindus, 76 Muslims, and 22 Christians.
From 1862 to 1888, the college was affiliated to the University of Calcutta and till 1927, to the University of Allahabad. In 1927, when Agra University (now known as Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University) came into existence, the college became affiliated to it, and its principal Dr. A.W. Davies became the first Vice-Chancellor of the newly formed University. Since 1893, the college has offered post-graduate courses.
The college celebrated its centenary in 1952, on this occasion a new wing of the college was built,The foundation stone of the Centenary Wing was laid by Bharat Ratna Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan former president of India in 1957 and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru on 9 October 1959.
Presently the Principal of the college is Prof. Peter Edward Joseph
Vision
To draw inspiration from the teaching of Jesus christ and to engage in the development of God-given intellectual, social, creative, ethical and learning potentials in students and to kindle in them a passion for academic excellence and holistic growth, so that they will be adequately equipped for serving the humanity, with professional competencies, compassionate hearts and humane value.
Present Composition
St. John's College is a co-educational institution of higher learning with men-women ratio of 45:55. it is regarded as good college of Northern India. the college offers courses under five faculties - three in regular and two in self finance mode. The college has sixteen post-graduate departments with facilities for research and three under-graduate departments. the college also runs five self-financed recognized courses viz, B.Com (vocational), B.B.A., B.Ed , M.A. (Urdu), Post Graduate diploma in clinical psychology and two partially self-financed degree programmes in B.Sc with Industrial Chemistry, and B.Sc with Computer Science.
The college has always striven to admit students and select teachers from all communities and from all parts of India. It also admits a small number of students from overseas. The college offers a scholarships and awards to meritorious students.These are endowed over a period of time.
Campus
The college is situated on a large and well-known campus in Agra, on the occasion of its centenary, a new wing of the college was built,The foundation stone of the Centenary Wing was laid by Bharat Ratna Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan former president of India in 1957 and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru on 9 October 1959. Facilities for a number of sports are provided for on college campus. The annexe, the ladies common room provide facilities for indoor sport and recreation. The Chapel of invitation is open to all members for worship and meditation.
Residence halls
The college's halls of residence are spread across two blocks, named for former principals, as given below:
Davis house
Bishop French hostel
Library
The St. John's college has a Central Library with over 90,000 books, a reading room open access and a reference section for post-graduate and research student, most of the departments have departmental library for post-graduate students.
The college library also provides INFLIBNET facility to the faculty members, research scholars and post graduate students to consult more than 80,000 e-journals and e-books.
Admission
The college has its own selection process. the college has an online application process( https://sjcportal.in ) where prospective applicants are expected to fill in their interests and academic achievements. the colleges releases a list for students selected to an interview.
Academics
St. John's offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in:
English
History
Political science
Economics
Psychology
Geography
Hindi
Sanskrit
Urdu
Business Administration
Accounts and Law
Business Economics
Physics
Chemistry
Mathematics
Statistics
Zoology
Botany.
Education
Computer science
St. John's offers one Ph.D. in Science and Commerce. Students can take vocational courses in Foreign Trade, Advertising and Sales Promotion, Insurance, Computer Science, Demography, Yoga Psychology and Mental Health and Communicative English. The college runs a study centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Student societies
Students club and societies have always played an important role in the life of the college, and seen as vital to student development. many academic subject has a society which sponsors lectures and discussions. the popular extra curricular societies engage in activities concerned with debating, dramatics, photography, social services, quizzing, 'dumcherade', 'antakshri' etc. many societies ie; BOTSO, CHEMSO , regularly invite distinguished visitors to address and join issue with students on various topical issues.
The various societies in colleges are:-
BOTANICAL SOCIETY (BOTSO)
CHEMICAL SOCIETY (CHEMSO)
STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT OF INDIA (SCM)
NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)
NATIONAL CADET CORPS ARMY WING
NATIONAL CADET CORPS AIR FORCE WING
COMMERCE ASSOCIATION
ALUMNI CELL
CULTURAL SOCIETY
HINDI SABHA
ARTS ASSOCIATION
SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
ZOOLOGY ASSOCIATION
Rovers and Rangers
Principals
Rev. Thomas Valpy French, D.D. (First Principal 1850 - 1859)
- Scholar and Fellow of University College, Oxford. - First Bishop of Lahore, United India. (1877 - 1887)
Rev. Henry William Shackell, M.A. (1859 - 1861)
- Student and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Rev. John Barton, M.A. (1861 - 1863)
- Student of Christ's College, Cambridge. - First Principal, Cathedral Mission College, Calcutta. (1865) - Fellow of Madras University, Madras. (1871) - Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge. (1876 - 1893)
Rev. Charles Ellard Vines, M.A. (1863 - 1878)
- Student of Trinity College, Cambridge. - Honours in Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge. (1862)
Rev. James Abbott Lloyd, M.A. (1878 - 1880)
- Student of St. John's College, Cambridge. - Vice Principal, St. John's College, Agra. (1877 - 1878) - Vicar of St. Giles's, Norwich. (1893)
Rev. Robert John Bell, M.R.C.P (1880 - 1883)
- Professor at Cathedral Mission College, Calcutta. (1874 - 1880)
Rev. George Edger Augustus Pargiter, M.A. (1883 - 1890)
- Student of Merton College, Oxford. - Fellow of Allahabad University, Allahabad. (1890) - Vicar of St. Paul's, Leamington. (1894)
Rev. John Parker Haythornthwaite, M.A. (1890 - 1911)
- Student of St. John's College, Cambridge. - Fellow of Allahabad University, Allahabad. (1894) - Vicar of King's Langley. (1916)
Rev. Harry Bickersteth Durrant, M.A. (1911 - 1913)
- Scholar and Exhibitioner of Pembroke College, Cambridge. - Fellow of Allahabad University, Allahabad. (1901) - Vice Principal, St. John's College, Agra. (1905) - Canon of Lucknow. (1912) - Bishop of Lahore, United India. (1913) - Fellow of Punjab University. (1913)
Rev. Dr. Arthur Whitcliffe Davies, M.A., D.Litt. (1913 - 1928)
- Scholar of Uppingham and University College, Oxford. (1902) - Scholar of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. (1904) - Vice Principal, St. John's College, Agra. (1911) - Canon of Lucknow. (1917) - Kaiser-i-Hind Medal. (1921) - First Vice Chancellor of Agra University. (1927) - Hon. Canon of Bradford. (1930)
William Edward Sladen Holland, M.A. (1929 - 1933)
- Student of Magdalen College, Oxford. - Founded Oxford and Cambridge Hostel (now Holland Hall, Allahabad) - Fellow of Allahabad University, Allahabad. (1906) - Principal, St. Paul's College, Calcutta. (1913) - Fellow of Calcutta University, Calcutta. (1916) - Canon of Lucknow. (1931)
Rev. Canon Thomas Donald Sully, M.A. (1933 - 1948)
- Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford.
C.W.S Mahajan, B.A. (1948 - 1954)
- Scholar of Keble College, Oxford.
Dr. P. Thomas Chandi (1954 - 1968)
- Conferred 'Padam Shree' by the Government of India. (1965) - Vice Chancellor of Gorakhpur University. (1968)
Dr. P.I. Ittyerah (1968 - 1978)
Dr. S.C. Banwar (1978 - 1979)
- Pro Vice Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. (1979)
Gladwin M. Ram, A.M. (1979 - 1991)
- Scholar of Harvard University, Massachusetts.
Dr. M.S. Renick, P.hD. (1991 - 1996)
Dr. Ipe Michael Ipe, P.hD. (1996 - 1999)
Dr. Fazal Masih Prasad,M.Sc(Ag. Chem)., D.Phil., D.Sc., F.B.R.S., F.I.S.A.C., F.I.S.A.B., F.I.C.C., F.S.P.P.S., M.N.A.Sc. (1999 - 2011)
- Scholar of Agra and Allahabad Universities. - Member, Board of Governors, Ewing Christian College, Allahabad. - Member, Board of Governors, St. Andrew's College, Gorakhpur. - Member, Board of Governors, Sherwood College, Nainital. - Member, Board of Governors, All Saints' College, Nainital. - Manager, St. John's Inter College, Agra. - Fellow of Plant Protection Science. - Fellow and Life Member of Indian Council of Chemists - Conferred Dr. Sam Higginbottom Award for the Best Principal for the year 2004-2005. - Member of Board of Studies in Chemistry, Dairy Chemistry, Engineering Chemistry and Home Science. (1984 - 1999) - Member of Board of Studies in Agricultural Chemistry, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. - Member of Editorial Board of The New Agriculturist. - Member of Executive Committee of Indian Society of Agricultural Chemists. - Technical Editor of The Allahabad Farmer - Conferred Rev. Fr. T.A. Mithias National Award for the Innovative College Educators for the year 2002. - Fellow of Indian Society of Agri-Bio Chemists. - Conferred The Jewel of India Award. (2001) - Conferred Vidya Ratan Award. (2001) - Fellow of Indian Society of Agricultural Chemists. - Fellow of Bioved Research Society. - Acting Principal, Allahabad Agricultural Institute. (1992 - 1993) - Head of the Department of Chemistry, Allahabad Agricultural Institute. (1996 - 1999) - Dean (Students' Welfare), Allahabad Agricultural Institute. - Proctor, Allahabad Agricultural Institute.
Prof. Alexender Lall (2011-2015)
Prof. Peter Edward Joseph, D.Phil, F.I.C.C. (2015-)
Notable alumni
St. John's College Agra has produced many distinguished personalities, including one President of India, two Governor of states, one nominee for the Noble prize, Indian ambassador to United States of America, the Chief Justice of high court and many IAS, IFS IRS officers.
Laxmi Raman Acharya, freedom fighter and former deputy Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh
Vice Admiral S.P. Govil (Retd.), former Vice Chief of Naval Staff
Dr. D.K. Hazra, former Dean of the Indian College of Physicians, discoverer of the synthesis of the T3, and TSH hormones, nominee for the Nobel Prize(1977),Padma Shri (2014)
Raj Narain, IRS (Retd.), former Member/spl. secretary, Central Board of Direct Taxes
Abhishek Vivian Prasad, Eminent Administrator, Director, Educator, Manager, Strategist & Politician. Parliament of Victoria
C.N. Garg, former CMD, Cement Corporation Of India (CCI)
G.N. Gupta, IRS (Retd.), former Chairman/secretary, Central Board of Direct Taxes
S.J.S. Chhatwal, IFS (Retd.), former Chairman, Union Public Service Commission
J. K. Verma, IRS, Member Income Tax Tribunal
Justice S.D. Agarwala, former Chief Justice, High Court of Punjab and Haryana
M.C. Gupta, IAS (Retd.), former Chief Secretary, Haryana
Ratan Kumar Gupta, Veteran Freedom Fighter, Poet & Journalist. Led Bhopal State Merger Movement.
Dr. Kusum Singh,PhD(Environmental Chemistry), Former Research Scholar in Environment & Analytical Chemistry.
Kinshuk Gupta Finance Professional
Ashwini Kumar Singh IFS Deputy Conservator of Forests Karnataka
Pradeep Taneja, Professor of Chinese Politics & Political Economy, University of Melbourne.
Dr. David Daneesh Massey, Eminent Researcher, Environmentalist & Analytic Chemist, awarded with RA fellowship from CSIR [Council of Science and Industrial Research]
Dr. T J Rajendra Prasad, Eminent Professor of Mathematics, Ph.D University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
