St. Thomas Matriculation Higher Secondary School Competitors

Chennai Public School - India is an education management company based out of TVS Avenue Main Road, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.

Sishya was founded in 1972. The school has gradually developed over the years until it has evolved into a full fledged Higher Secondary School, offering the +2 since 1986. The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, whose offices are in New Delhi. It prepares students for the ICSE (Class X) and the ISC (Class XII) examinations. Sishya has been granted Christian Minority status by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions. The school’s approach to primary education is grounded on activity based learning which helps foster and stimulate healthy inquisitiveness in the tiny tots. The school tries to build social skills at an early age and thechildren learn to be open minded and unprejudiced towards their peers and to collaborate with them. There are no examinations till class 6. Thereafter as the children mature they are introduced to examinations. From class 9 onwards, the syllabus for the Board examinations is introduced. The school has 14 classes, commencing with the LKG upto the 12th class. Divided into Primary, Junior and Senior schools. The school endeavours to keep the number of students per class to a minimum, balancing efficiency and quality, with economy. From KG to Class X there are not more than 30 per class. Science, Commerce and Humanity streams are offered at the Higher Secondary Level. The present strength of the school is approximately 1200 students and 100 teaching staff.

Loyola College, a Catholic Minority Institution, was founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1925, with the primary objective of providing University Education in a Christian atmosphere for deserving students irrespective of caste and creed. It started functioning in July 1925 with just 75 students on the rolls in three undergraduate courses of Mathematics, History and Economics. Loyola College, though affiliated to University of Madras, became autonomous in July 1978. It is autonomous, in the sense that it is empowered to frame its own course of studies and adopt innovative methods of teaching and evaluation. The University degrees will be conferred on the students passing the examinations conducted by the college. UGC conferred the status of “College with potential for Excellence” on Loyola College in 2004 and confirmed the same in 2010. NAAC's re-accreditation score in 2012 (Third Cycle) is 3.70 out of 4.00 CGPA. UGC has elevated Loyola College to the status of “College of Excellence” for the period from April 1, 2014 till March 31, 2019. Today, there are 19 P.G courses and 19 U.G courses (Arts, Sciences and Commerce) and 12 special Institutes offering various programs to 12,107 students. 11 departments are offering M.Phil. programs and 12 departments offer Ph.D. programs. At present, 117 teaching staff members out of 286 hold doctoral degree. There are 182 non-teaching staff in service.