patna with a sound academic ambience and plethora of courses on offer patna womens college a constituent unit of patna university is the first choice of girls desirous of pursuing threeyear degree courses this 75yearold institution accreditated with a grade by naac and accorded cpe college with potential for excellence status by the ugc has come a long way in imparting quality education to the girls of the state and ensuring their socioeconomic empowerment by instilling in them the qualities of social service and leadership thousands of motivated and empowered women have passed through the portals of this college and have entered various fields of life many of them making a mark in our country and abroad patna womens college was founded in 1940 by bishop bj sullivan of patna and mother m josephine superior general of the apostolic carmel it was the first institution of higher learning opened to cater to the educational needs of women in bihar in the early years the college and its hostel were housed at the bishops own residence at bankipur which he vacated for this great work the college was granted the status of a degree college in july 1941 the present site of the college buildings was offered to the then principal mother theodosia by the then bihar governor lord rutherford in 1945 the governor was concerned that the college building should match in beauty the patna high courts building opposite to which this site was located the college building that came up was a unique synthesis of hindu islamic norman and gothic styles the college moved into the new building in july 1948 the college has a sprawling playground and a modern library with more than 60000 books there are more than 300 computers in the college for the use of students this college encourages undergraduate students to go for research activities the college imparts honours level courses in english hindi sanskrit urdu and philosophy humanities economics geography history sociology psychology political science and home science social sciences and botany zoology physics chemistry mathematics and statistics science and commerce on selffinancing basis besides these conventional threeyear degree courses the college imparts honourslevel teaching in such professional courses as computer applications industrial microbiology communicative english with media studies advertising sales promotions and sales management business administration and mass communications creditbased and careeroriented addon certificate diploma and advanced diploma courses in human resource management risk and insurance management stress management applied yoga textile ornamentation and home fashion are also available for the undergraduate students of the college the college also runs certificate courses in human rights and values in education womens studies computer literacy web designing 3d animation design communication and soft skills travel and tourism management and office management the colleges centre for foreign languages offers certificate courses in spanish french and german languages the college also runs pg courses in home science and computer applications and pg diploma courses in fashion designing advertising and sales management and computer applications this