Lalbagh Road. The pre-university section was separated from the college in 2002 as part of the Karnataka state policy of bifurcation. The college was Accredited by UGC as a college with Potential for Excellence‘ (CPE) on 3 November 2004 and was one of five colleges in Karnataka that was awarded academic autonomy in the year 2005. The second cycle of NAAC Accreditation conferred A‘ level (Score 85.3%) on 2 February 2006. A commemorative stamp by India Post was released on 1 August 2009. The UGC extended the college's Autonomous Status for the period 2010–2011 to 2015–2016. Yet again the college saw an improvement in its NAAC Accreditation score in the third Cycle with 'A' level and a score of 3.73/4 on 10 March 2012. The college was granted College for Excellence‘(CE) status by the UGC in 2014. It was granted the status of DST-FIST college in 2015. The UGC once again extended the Autonomous Status for the period 2016–2022. In 2014 the college was cited for its model library facility. In February 2021, St. Joseph's University bill was presented in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and was subsequently passed by the Legislative Assembly and Karnataka Legislative Council. The college received its University charter on 2nd July 2022. On 27th September 2022, the institution was inaugurated as India's first public-private University by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu. The institution has five main campuses, located in the centre of the Cantonment. St. Joseph's College, Bangalore (previously St. Joseph's College of Arts and Sciences) St. Joseph's Evening College, Bangalore St. Joseph's College of Commerce St. Joseph’s Institute of Management St Joseph's College of Law St. Joseph's also has two high schools and a stand alone pre-university college. St. Joseph's Pre-University College St Joseph's Boys' High School St. Joseph's Indian High School St. Joseph's Evening College (Autonomous) St Joseph's Evening College, Bangalore was established in 1972 as a Jesuit college to empower the underprivileged sectors of Indian society In 2005, it was given autonomous status by the UGC, to devise its own curriculum. The Evening College is a minority institution and accepts students of all religious denominations without discrimination. It is affiliated to Bengaluru City University and offers three-year BCom, BA, BCA, and BBM degrees and two-year postgraduate degrees in Commerce (MCom), and English. St. Joseph's College of Commerce (Autonomous) St. Joseph's College was divided in 1972, and commerce section of the college was