Govt. Degree College Shopian, Kashmir

Government Degree College Shopian, also known as GDC Shopian, is an autonomous degree college affiliated with the University of Kashmir. It is situated on a 67 kanal (8.375 acres) campus in Gagren, one kilometre from the main town of Shopian, about 51 km south of Srinagar and 20 km from Pulwama City, in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The college was established in 1988 by the Government of J&K and is recognized by the UGC under sections 2(f) and 12(b). It provides admission in more than 146 subject combinations across over 30 subjects, and also facilitates off-campus education in collaboration with IGNOU, MANUU, and the Department of Distance Education of the University of Kashmir. The college offers three-year bachelor courses in Arts, Science, Social Science, Commerce, Computer Science, and Business Administration, including BA, BA (Social Science), BSc, BSc (with Mathematics), BBA, BCA, and B.Com. In 2018, it introduced job-oriented subjects such as Food Science & Technology, Bio-technology, Bio-Chemistry, and Clinical Biochemistry. It is the second college in the Kashmir valley to offer Food Science & Technology as a core UG subject, and the only college in J&K to offer Horticulture as a science stream subject.