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St Aloysius College founded in 1880, is managed by Jesuit Fathers. The College campus is spread over 25 acres of land atop of Ligh House Hill in the heart of Mangalore city. The campus has spacious buildings for the Administrative block,Science block, the Computer Centre, Auditorium, Hostels, the Xavier Block, the Gonzaga Block and the cafeteria. The internationally famed Church, like the Sistine Chapel in Rome, with frescoes by Br. Moscheni SJ ,is on the campus. The church is visited by tourists from India and abroad.
The Library: To enable students to do personal work, the College has built up with great care adequate library facilities housed in the Administrative Block. It has over 60,000 books and receives over a hundred journals. Library is equipped with computer and scanner facilities.
Laboratories: Well-equipped laboratories with spacious and well-ventilated halls house laboratories in Botany, Chemistry, Electronics, Microbiology, Physics, and Zoology. The Laboratory of Applied Biology and Environmental Sciences offers research facilities for Ph.D. In addition, the College has The Rondano Bio-Diversity Research Laboratory.
Computer Center: Well-equipped, air-conditioned laboratories in the Computer Center are provided with about eighty terminals. A Computer harware laboratory is attached to it.
Audio-Visual Room: The college offers media services through the spacious Audio-Visual roomlocated in the Coelho block. The Audio-Visual room provides viewing facilities with audio-visual instruction materials. Tele-Conferencing facility is available.
Games and Sports: Extensive and well-maintained play fields for Hockey, Football and Cricket and courts for Volley-Ball, Basket-Ball, Tennis, Kabaddi, Badminton and Throw-Ball are available to the students.
Loyola Gymnasium: The Loyola Gymnasium houses an 8-exercise facility and is equipped for table-tennis and weight-lifting. An indoor facility for badminton is also available.
Hostels : Students who do not live with their parents, near relatives or guardians are expected to live in hostels approved by the college. There are hostels run by the college for male studentsprimarily for those coming from outside Mangalore. The hostels are governed by rules and regulations framed by the government. Out station students may go to other hostels only after refusal of admission in our college hostel. They should also submit a letter from their parents to the principal approving their stay outside.
Counselling Services: Counselling services are available to all the students and to the parents. The college has about ten trained counsellors. Students may seek help from them for a variety of concerns including: surviving college, improving relationships with family, friends, room-mates, making important decisions about ones personal life, dealing with loneliness and depression etc.. Counselling services are confidential. Two deans are appointed to help the students in academic and disciplinary matters and they look after general welfare of the students.
Human Resource Development Programmes: The department of human resource development conducts courses for motivated students. The certificate courses offered by the departments are: Debating, IAS preparatory course, Photography, Yakshagana, Music, Yoga therapy , Bharathanatyam, Good hand writing courses in English and Kannada.
Aloysius Academy Of Languages: The college has a well-equipped language laboratory called 'SUBHASHINI' with electronic gadgets. The academy conducts language courses in English, Kannada, French, German, Sanskrit and Konkani.