Mount Carmel College (MCC) is an autonomous college located in Bangalore, India, affiliated to Bengaluru City University. It is one of the first women’s colleges established in 1944 in Trichur as 'Carmel College' under the Madras University and shifted to Bengaluru in 1948. It's ultimate aim is to empower women with the help of education. MCC has been featured on ‘India Today’ since its conception and has continued to claim its ranking as one amongst the top twenty colleges of India every year Academics and accreditation The college offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in arts, science and commerce. The college is Re-Accredited with an A+ Grade(4th Cycle) by NAAC . A College with Potential for Excellence by UGC, Star College Status by DBT, Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India . The college has a sister institution Mount Carmel Institute Of Management which offers Post Graduation Diploma in Business Management for women. The Centre for Education Growth and Research has declared MCC as the Best Women’s College in Karnataka for its ‘outstanding and exemplary contribution towards education ,skill development and research’. In 2008, it was ranked by India Today as one of the top three colleges in Karnataka in the fields of arts, science and commerce. Student festivals Cul Ah is the cultural fest of the college that includes events such as dance, drama, music and academically driven contests like quizzes. Cross Currents is a national level Commerce Fest and Carpediem is a national level management fest, along with Manan which is a national level Humanities fest. These are to name a few of the fests hosted by the college. Notable alumni A. J. S. Lakshmi Shree Anjali Jay, British-Indian actress and classical dancer Amulya, actress Anu Prabhakar, actress Anushka Sharma, actress Anushka Shetty, actress Aparna Popat, badminton player Deepika Padukone, actress Disha Annappa Ravi, environmental activist Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, theologian Faye D'Souza, journalist Joanne Da Cunha, Pond's Femina Goa 2013 / Actress, Model, Singer Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, businesswoman, technocrat, innovator, and the founder of Biocon Mamta Mohandas, actress and playback singer Margaret Alva, governor of Rajasthan and former governor of Uttarakhand Monisha Unni, actress Nandita Berry, Indian-American attorney, former Secretary of State of Texas Nicole Faria - model and Miss Earth 2010 Nithya Menen, actress Nirupama Rao, Indian ambassador to the United States Pooja Umashankar, actress Priya Pereira,