Hindu College, Guntur

Hindu College, Guntur was founded in 1930 in Guntur City, India, around the same time as the Hindu high school. It offers graduate and undergraduate courses and has a Pharma College campus and a P.G. college on Amaravathi Road, both recognized by Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. The main city campus was established in 1930, making it one of the oldest colleges in Andhra Pradesh. The college was founded by Sri Kompalli Kotilingam, the founding president, and Sri Aka Lakshmi Narasimham, the founding secretary, both leading lawyers in the city at the time. Sri Aka Lakshmi Narasimham took up the idea of establishing a higher educational institute for the Hindu community on the advice of his classmate and close friend, the ex-president of India, Sri Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. The college offers Masters and Bachelors degrees in Arts, Science, Mathematics, Management, Pharmaceuticals, and Electronics, and has a separate department for the National Cadet Corps. Its Fine Arts department allows participation in cultural activities, essay writing, and drawing, and the college won a best college prize in 2003 in inter-college competitions at Nagarjuna University. The college maintains various infrastructural facilities including a library, computer center, health center, and a geology museum.