About the College

Founded in 1949, Ranchi Women’s college has carved out a niche for itself in the world of higher education for women in social sciences/humanities, sciences and commerce. It is located in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand. Jharkhand has recently been created by dividing the province of Bihar and is socially and economically backward and has a large proportion of tribal population which has not benefited from development in other parts of India. It is located in the capital city and in an urban area but caters to the needs of the nearby tribal areas as is reflected by the large number of tribal students. It aims to develop the all-round development of personality, bring out the latent qualities of the students and urge them to undertake creative activities. It also addresses the employment prospects of the girls and to achieve equal opportunity in society. Since most of their students come from lower strata of society the college intends to help them shape their inner and outer personality into confident, self-reliant, and emancipated persons without any inferiority complex or hesitation.

This college offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in addition to the intermediate (last two years of the School). It has a strength of about 10000 in all three streams right from Plus Two to Post Graduate Courses including 6 Vocational Courses and 01 B. Ed Course. The proportion of the scheduled tribe/caste students is nearly 23%. If we exclude the students of the intermediate programme then the enrolment is about 7000 students, of which 465 (9.2%) are enrolled for the post graduate programmes and 5067 (90.8 per cent) are enrolled for the undergraduate programmes. The proportion of students from the reserved categories is the higher (23.5 per cent) in the undergraduate programmes and the lower in the graduate (13.5%) programmes.

In its quest for excellence, it invited the National Assessment and Accreditation Council for evaluating the college and received a very good grade. It is preparing women students for the rapidly changing world of today and tomorrow. The college has attempted to keep itself updated in knowledge and skills by combining the traditional subjects in arts and sciences with vocational subjects in the emerging areas such as biotechnology, information technology etc. Since the traditional programmes in arts, science and commerce have more of knowledge content and less of skill content, it is enriched through classroom discussions, seminars, tutorials, project work, networking with NGOs and lectures/workshops by experts from India and abroad.

As recognition of its requirements for better infrastructure and buildings and its potential, the Department of Forests provided support for setting up a Herbal Park in the campus while the Ministry of Human Resource Development sanctioned Rs 16 million for building classrooms for science teaching.

A visionary group of philanthropists, Mrs Bhanumati Prasad, Mrs A. V. Davis, Mr K B Sahay (the- then Chief Minister of Bihar), Mr M S Rao (ICS, The Commissioner of Chotanagpur), Mr S N Ganguly, Mr Hemen Ganguly, Mr Suresh Prasad & Mr S K Bage, made up their mind to provide the opportunity of Higher Education to the unprivileged women of Chotanagpur, a neglected and undeveloped area of then Bihar with a firm vision and aim and reflected it in the logo to bring forth these women into the main stream of the society from their marginalized status. Since inception till date the College management concentrates on the same vision with its ceaseless efforts to encourage and inspire the girls of Jharkhand and other states to attain freedom from the darkness of ignorance and misunderstanding and lead them towards ever widening luminous world of wisdom, knowledge and independence.

The College still follows the mission to lead girl students to march successfully towards knowledge, enlightenment and empowerment through various Curricular, Co curricular & extra curricular activities. All stakeholders of the college, be it Principal and Teachers, Students, Staff, Parents, affiliating body (University or JAC), Society or Alumnae, Government, Press or Media, Judiciary, Administration or NGO, we all strive to provide congenial environment and quality infrastructure for smooth functioning of the teaching-learning process for girls with a focus to make girls empowered in the real sense. Besides sharing the knowledge and latest information, the Teachers encourage the students to inculcate traditional Indian values. Our vision is translated through our mission to sustain such an atmosphere through which girls can pave ahead towards overall development of personality empowering them thus, in following five ways :

1. To make them Intellectually enriched and advanced in knowledge

2. To sensitize them for social causes at global level

3. To fill them with moral strength to fight against social taboos

4. To enable them as a self reliant person by achieving economic independence

5. To encourage them for being mentally and physically fit & healthy to accept any challenge as the Nobel Laureate Kavi Guru Ravindra Nath Tagore says, we too aspire for creating a space,

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake!

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