PATNA WOMEN’S COLLEGE is the first institution of higher learning opened to cater to the educational needs of women in Bihar. Bishop B.J. Sullivan S.J., Bishop of Patna (Founder) and Mother M. Josephine A.C. Superior General of the Apostolic Carmel named it Patna Women’s College and presented it as a gift to the Women of Bihar, thereby placing at their disposal an opportunity for higher education. The College is run by the Catholic Religious Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, an indigenous educational body founded in 1870.
Thousands of motivated and empowered women have passed through the portals of this college and have entered various fields of life, many making a mark in our country and abroad.
The college has come a long way from the time the pioneers envisioned and undertook the difficult task of establishing a women’s college at a time when only a few truly enlightened and far-sighted persons were prepared to support this infant project in a place where higher education for women was frowned upon, if not rejected outright.
