Department of Collegiate Education, with its inception in the year 1960, now manages planning, administration and funding of 411 government and 321 private aided colleges across the state has been striving to make quality higher education affordable and accessible to all sections of students. With a firm concern for the overall development of the students, the Department has taken keen interest to see that students belonging to the most backward communities, women and rural students are not deprived of higher education, sanctioned 104 colleges in the year 2007.
Government First Grade College, Bidadi was established with an aim of providing quality and higher education to the students situated in rural and backward areas of the region, in the year 2007 vide Government Order No. ED/144/YOYOKA/2007 dated 27-04-2007 at Government Junior College, Bidadi with a meagre student enrolment of 19. Now it is shifted to an independent, newly constructed building located at Kethaganahalli Road which is 2 kms. away from Bidadi in Ramanagar District.
The College is affiliated to Bangalore University and offers BA (HEK, HEP, HES), B Com, BBM and B Sc (PMCs) courses. Co-curricular activities such as NSS, Sports, Youth Red Cross, Cultural etc. are available.
The College has experienced and qualified teaching and non-teaching staff to cater to the needs of the students. The college has good Library and such other facilities.
Mission
To inculcate in the minds of the students to have faith in God, love for their fellow men and devotion to their Motherland by imparting in them moral, religious and intellectual values.
To provide access to all sections of the society to pursue higher education
To empower subalterns and economically backward communities of this region.
Achieve academic excellence through dedication to their duty, innovation in teaching and faith in human values.
Vision
To make education as an effective tool to bring about social changes for the betterment of the Society.
To create academic leadership among rural and semi urban students
