Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Admission 2026, Course Highlights, Recruitment sectors, Average Salary

Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK) is a Pontifical Athenaeum for higher learning and formation, established by the Congregation for Catholic Education, Vatican, as an independent institute, empowered to grant degrees, including Licentiate and Doctorate in Philosophy and Theology, Licentiate in Oriental Canon Law, Licentiate and Master’s in Formative Spirituality and Counselling.
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram is a Registered Society under the Karnataka Societies of Registration Act 1960 (Karnataka Act No.17 of 1960) as S. No.13/84-85 of Bangalore City Corporation.

Dharmaram is the realization of the dreams of many visionaries. From its very inception, giving leadership in intellectual, spiritual, and contextual formation to the priestly and religious candidates has been one of the perceptible charisms of the CMI congregation. The founding Fathers of the Congregation, namely, Thomas Palackal, Thomas Porookara, and Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara were seminary professors and rectors. Once the religious house at Mannanam was established (1831), a seminary was started, in 1833, attached to the monastery, to impart priestly education both to the religious and the diocesan candidates. In the course of time, there were other seminaries attached to other monasteries like Elthuruth, Mutholy, Koonammavu, and Chethipuzha. The aim was to improve the quality of the priests through systematic formation, efficient teaching, and effective spiritual guidance. According to the first biographer of Chavara, Leopold Beccaro, an Italian Carmelite Missionary, Bl. Chavara, even as a young cleric, realized that “an uneducated priest was not only inefficient to do anything worthwhile in his pastoral work, but may be even detrimental to the salvation of ‘souls’.” These seminaries inaugurated a new era in theological education and priestly formation of St. Thomas Christians. The Mannanam Seminary continued to exist and served the Church till 1894, and later it was re-founded in 1918 at Chethipuzha. Listening to the universal call of the Church and understanding the need of the times, Very Rev. Fr. Maurus Valiyaparampil CMI, the then Prior General and Rev. Fr. Jonas Thaliath CMI, who later became the first bishop of Rajkot, took leadership to transplant the Sacred Heart Seminary at Chethipuzha to Bangalore. It was the patronage and personal care of late Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, the then Prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches, that contributed the most for this providential transfer. It was a response from the part of the CMI congregation to the divine benediction of institutional growth and to the equally divine call to assume wider apostolic responsibilities. To deepen the roots of the Indian cultural, spiritual, and philosophical heritage the visionaries re-named the seminary as Dharmaram College. Composed of two Sanskrit words, Dharma (righteousness, duty, virtue) and Arama (garden), “Dharmaram” signifies the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the SanatanaSadguru (Eternal Master) of this Gurukulam (House of the Master). The foundation stone of Dharmaram College was blessed by Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, on 8 December 1953 and was laid by Archbishop Thomas Pothacamury of Bangalore. Dharmaram College was formally inaugurated on 23 July 1957 by the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Knox. Dharmaram, true to her name, was from its inception giving special attention to Indian orientation in the academic, spiritual, liturgical, and cultural endeavours and promoted inculturation, dialogue, and ecumenism in the Church and in the country.

Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram - DVK Highlights

• Established year: 1960
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• Application mode: Online (pen and paper-based)
• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka 560029 , India

Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram - DVK Offered Course List

School Of Agriculture & Veterinary Science, School Of Commerce And Management Studies, School Of Hotel Management, School Of Science, School Of Foreign & Indian Languages, School Of Journalism & Mass Media Communication, School Of Philosophy And Research, School Of Engineering & Technology, School Of Computer Science & IT, School Of Architecture & Planning, School Of Library & Information Science, School Of Arts And Social Studies, School Of Education And Physical Education, School Of Law, School Of Pharmacy, School Of Para-Medical Science, School Of Fire & Safety, M.Phil Subjects List, Ph.D. Subjects List,

Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram - DVK Admission Process

The application form is available on the official website of Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram - DVK. Those who wish to apply can submit their applications on the official website. The selection is done on the basis of merit list.

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Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram - DVK Course Offered

• Bachelor of Arts(B.A.)
• Bachelor of Arts in Education(B.A. Education)
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics(B.A. Economics)
• Bachelor of Arts in Geography(B.A. Geography)
• Bachelor of Arts in Hindi(B.A. Hindi)
• Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics(B.A. Mathematics)
• Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy(B.A. Philosophy)
• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science(B.A. Political Science)
• Bachelor of Arts in Sanskrit(B.A. Sanskrit)