Fergusson College , established in 1885 , has remained the flagship of Deccan Education Society (DES), being placed in the first 10 best colleges pan India and has retained its flavor as the most progressive epitomizing quality and style education by highly qualified faculty at its sauve best. Several additional institutions spawned in the course of time. Jagannath Rathi Vocational Guidance
and Training Institute (JRVGTI) is one such offering industry oriented skills – set repositioning courses. Fergusson Center for Excellence in Higher Studies, Tirupati, is slated to begin in 2012 offering out-of-the-box courses in Life Sciences and extending the current operations of FIAS-GCU Post Graduate programmes. The center is under construction and will have state-of-the-art infrastructure and facilities. Realizing the need of opening new vistas in Life Sciences and allied disciplines , and to stimulate career options and ambitions of aspiring students DES created Fergusson Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS) to initiate M Sc in Food Bioscience and M Sc in Clinical Microbiology in collaboration with Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) ,Glasgow , UK. These are operative at Pune campus since 2011 ; the first batch being already at Glasgow. The cardinal objective is to offer cutting-edge post graduation opportunities , both in classrooms and in laboratories , of international stature. International degrees demand heavy financial commitments , often a formidable task to our deserving talent. It is exactly this bottleneck that we have removed. FIAS now dishes out to you training by highly qualified FIAS and GCU faculty that is par excellence at reasonable cost. On the successful completion of Postgraduate Certificate (PgC) at Pune , students can articulate directly onto relevant programme at GCU. You are the beneficiary of shortened period of time spent within UK (8 months instead of 12 months) since you complete PgC (4 months) at FIAS. At the end of UK tenure you will have acquired a highly valued Masters award from GCU , with ranking in first ten in UK.
