About College

Greeting and a warm welcome to Tunga Mahavidyalaya 

Under the dynamic and visionary leadership of Dr B N Rangappa and team of Tunga Vidyavardhaka Sangha ® the thriving journey of the college commenced in the year 1967 in Thirthahalli at the foothills of Anandagiri. The prolific and admirable efforts of an association of philanthropists. The college management and all the stakeholders Tunga Mahavidyalaya is now recognised as the symbol of excellence and equality.

The college has served more than five decades  to the society and Nation by providing the best learning and teaching opportunities to a large number of students and teachers.

Our college has celebrated the Golden Jubilee year in 2018 with huge participation of all students and stakeholders. Continuing the long and cherishing history of holistic development of students into responsible and morally upright citizens. Tunga Mahavidyalaya is affiliated to Kuvempu University and accredited to NAAC, Bangalore with third cycle with B++ grade.

Tunga Mahavidyalaya with its highly qualified and experienced teaching staff, better infrastructure, fully secured and vibrant Eco-campus well equipped Laboratories digital library digital and smart classrooms incorporation of e-governance in administration strives to bring excellence on all fronts. All the modern technical features are added to facilitate the all-around development of the students of our college. The college has achieved a remarkable respect and reputation by organising a huge number of student centric activities and facilities. All the necessary steps to be taken for the further strengthening and achievements of our college students.

The college promotes gender equality through various programs. Several activities are conducted for the promotion of national values and communal harmony. Environmental consciousness has been an integrated component of college activities. College students are encouraged to participate in programs to develop social awareness about clean towns and the benefits of a green environment. It helped in having a natural landscape that predominates the campus with a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. 

The college is promoting sports and cultural activities among the students and has been awarded championships at the university level competitions in sports, both girls and boys categories. In cultural competitions also it has got several awards. The college students have been given immense opportunities for extra-curricular activities and participation in activities like Nisarga Sanga, NSS, NCC, Sports, etc. The NSS, NCC, and Sports wings of the college have won several awards at the university, state, and National Level competitions, especially in sports.

The college is also making continuous efforts in making necessary changes in courses offered according to the needs of the students’ community and changes called for by the development of the economy. Along with traditional courses, the college is offering non-formal, short-term courses to interested students in the areas like Communication Skills in English, Horticulture, Cartooning, Painting, Dramatics, etc.

To upgrade the levels of higher education and provide students the opportunity to take up Post Graduate Studies, the college started the M. Com course in 2013-14 and is running the course successfully. With 100% results every year ever since, the department has secured ranks for almost every year.

The students have secured many ranks and achieved impressive glories with their high achievements in academic, co-curricular and sports activities.

In these 55 years of journey our college have presented Army personnel’s higher rank, University rank holders, literary genius, state and national sports champions, agriculturists, politicians, actors, lawyers and responsible citizens to the society.