Roorkee College

Roorkee Adventist College is a Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher learning located near Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, and is regarded as the church's flagship provider of higher education in North India. It forms part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, described as the world's second largest Christian school system. The institution traces its origins to 1927, when it was founded by F. H. Loasby as a pioneer missionary school known as Seventh-day Adventist Inter College, Roorkee. It later served as a training school for mission workers in the North-Western Union, expanding its curriculum to meet the growing demand from students in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. In 1942, under Pastor E. R. Streeter, it gained recognition from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the Southern Asia Division. It was later recognized as a Junior High School in 1961 and upgraded to a High School under Dr. E. A. Streeter. In 1971, it affiliated with the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination. In 1989, under Dr. Edwin R. Dass, it became an Inter College. In 2001, it was upgraded into a higher education institution, and in 2003 it was renamed Roorkee Adventist College, offering degree programs affiliated with Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University.