CHRIST (Deemed to be University), is a deemed to be university in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Founded in 1969 as an autonomous college, on 22 July 2008 it was declared as an institution deemed to be university under section 3 of UGC Act 1956 by the Ministry of Education (India). The University is under the management of the priests of the Catholic religious order, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), part of Syro Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church. In 2016, the University was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with A Grade.

History
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) was born out of the educational vision of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara, an educationalist and social reformer of the nineteenth century in South India. Chavara founded the first indigenous Catholic congregation Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) in 1831, which administers CHRIST (Deemed to be University). Established in 1969 as Christ College, the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India conferred Autonomy to the Christ College in 2004 and identified it as an institution with Potential for Excellence in 2006. In 2008 under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India, declared the institution a Deemed to be University, in the name and style of 'Christ University'. Later in 2018, upon the direction of Supreme Court of India, the word 'University' was removed thus making it Christ (Deemed to be University). Christ was one of the first institutions in India to be accredited in 1998 by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), and subsequently in 2004 and 2016 had been awarded Grade 'A' on 4-point scale.

Campus
Main campus is spread over 25 acres (10 ha) and is part of the 100-acre (40 ha) Dharmaram College Campus in the central part of Bangalore city. It is on the extension of Hosur Road (NH 7) opposite the Bangalore Dairy Circle Flyover. The city campus is close to residential localities such as BTM Layout, a residential and commercial area, Koramangala, another large neighborhood and Jayanagar, one of the largest residential neighborhoods in Bangalore. In 2009, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) opened Kengeri Campus is spread over 75 acres at Kengeri on the Bangalore-Mysore highway SH 17, and houses the School of Engineering and Technology, PU Residential College, the School of Business and Management which offers MBA and BBA programmes, as well as School of Architecture, which was started officially from 2017. CHRIST (Deemed to be University) also has Bannerghatta Road Campus in Hulimavu on Bannerghatta Road, inaugurated in May 2016. Apart from these campuses, Christ has two more campuses, in Lavasa, Pune which was established in the year 2007 and in Delhi NCR established in the year 2013. The campuses are zero waste campus and recycle their wet waste and used paper.

Undergraduate Programmes
The university offers over 50 undergraduate programmes in humanities, social sciences, science, commerce and management, education, law and engineering. Undergraduate programmes are of three-year duration except in the case of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed, two years), Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM, four years), Bachelor of Laws (LLB, five years), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech, four years) and an integrated B.Tech/M.Tech or MBA (five years). Except for Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com), Bachelor of Arts (B.A) and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) programmes follow a Triple Major system.

Wikipedia workshop for second language students
The institution entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore to make article writing on Wikipedia a core exercise for the continuous internal assessment of its 1600 undergraduate students in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Sanskrit and Urdu. The Hindi and Kannada articles may be found at collection of Hindi articles and collection of Kannada articles.

Post-Graduate Programmes
The University offers 47 master's, 17 Master of Philosophy and 21 Ph.D degree programmes in Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Law, Education, commerce and management, and Engineering. Masters programmes are of two years duration, except for Master of Computer Science and Master of Law which are three years and one-year duration, respectively.

(Source:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_University)