St Columba's College, Hazaribagh Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

The college has a boys’ hostel facility that provides suitable accommodation for the students.

The college has a girls' hostel facility that provides suitable student accommodation.

The College There is a St. Columba’s Hospital by the CNI Church Mission to which the college belongs, which is 2 KM away from the college campus. The students and the staff make use of the facilities as and when required. In the future, the college is also trying to set up a full-fledged health Centre to provide medical facilities for students and other faculties. In addition, a government hospital is 3 km away from the college which is a better option for big problems.

The college has a Gym facility for the students.

The college boasts of having a good collection of books, journals, and periodicals. The college possesses library facilities for its students in various subjects through the departmental libraries as well as the central library of the college. The central library of the college, christened Banwar Library, named after the renowned ex-principal of the college, Prof. S.C. Banwar, is automated and it has more than 65765 books, journals, and periodicals. Besides, the large stock of books, journals, and periodicals, the library also has a reference section wherein students spend time in self-study. The central library offers spacious reading space for students and teachers.

The college has facilities for hockey, football, cricket, volleyball, and basketball. The indoor games supported by the college are caroms, chess, and table tennis which are separately available for boys and girls. Sports equipment for athletic events like hurdles, high jump, javelin throw, shot put hammer throw, and pole vault have been apt to reinforce the sports culture of the college.

The college possesses a well-equipped computer lab with 50 (fifty) computers and internet facilities to cater to the needs of college students, teachers, and staff.

The College set up proper and spacious canteen facilities for staff and students. Two small canteen facilities on the campus.

The College has a small traditional auditorium called Whitely Hall with basic facilities. It is a venue for all cultural, curricular, and co-curricular activities of the college. The College has one seminar hall with basic facilities and presently the college administration is planning to update it with multimedia facilities and Wi-Fi connectivity.

The College has Alumni Association. The registration process is in the pipeline. The Alumni Association has a valuable suggestion for the all-round development of the college to the principal.

The College has laboratory facilities. The UG Departments of Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Bio-Technology, and Zoology, as well as the PG Departments of Bio-Technology and Chemistry, own their respective laboratories with traditional basic facilities.

The college has guest house/waiting room facilities for visiting faculty and student family members.

The college campus has a branch of the Punjab National Bank. It is the official banking partner of the college. All banking transactions of the college, student payments salaries, and other payments, as well as receipts, are done through this branch.

The college has dedicated departments for all subjects that are catered to at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. All departments have spacious classrooms where the teaching-learning process is carried forward. 29 classrooms are serving the purpose of imbibing academic knowledge and wisdom to the students in traditional undergraduate and post-graduate subjects. Besides, vocational wings, including B.C.A., Biotechnology, and B. Ed. Departments also have their specific modern classrooms. Several classrooms are equipped with smart boards, digital boards, and projectors, besides the green boards and blackboards enabling smooth reading-writing facilities.

The college has an active placement cell, headed by a team of teachers from different fields. The cell leads the drives for career placements conducted from time to time in the college campus. It also initiates placement assistance to students of vocational cells and also conducts career counselling sessions teaming up with the career counselling centre, industry interface.