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     St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri (Autonomous), Calicut has been decorating the premiership in the educational horizon of Malabar for more than five decades. The Academic Excellence and dedicated service of the college was appreciated by the NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) by rating Devagiri as the Best College in the State. The latest in our achievements is the awarding of autonomy.
    The Department of Physics was started along with the college in 1956 with Pre-University and UG courses. It was built up by Prof. P.K Achan (1956-75) who expired on 27th July 2003. Further the department was upgraded to post graduate status in 1999 by commencing M.Sc. course in Physics.
       Most of the teachers of this department are actively involved in and outside. On being upgraded to PG level in 1999, this department proved the quality of its collective efforts by enabling the very first batch of students to secure a 100% first class pass in the M.Sc examination of 2001 and by repeating the same performance for next year’s too, there by setting a record in the university. During 2007 and 2008 year also the department secured 100% pass in the PG level with First and Third Rank in 2005. In the under graduate level the department secured more than 90% results in all the five years with a remarkable 100% result with 98% First class during 2006-07. In the year 2008-09 the department secured both First and second rank in the B.Sc. Physics examination. A remarkable achievement in the last five years is that more than 50% of the students secured more than 90% marks in their final B.Sc. Last year we privilege to have the university topper with a percentage of 98.6.Now under the guidance of professor S I Issac as the head, the department is hailing to success. Now this department is in the process of upgrading to a research department.

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