Govt. College for Women

Government College for Women (GCW), Gandhi Nagar, Jammu established in 1969, affiliated to University of Jammu by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir in response to the growing demand for women education in Jammu. The College at present imparts instructions in streams like medical and non-medical, Home Science, Humanities and vocational courses in three years degree course. The College is now a premier educational institute second to none in the state. For attaining excellence in the field of higher education the college underwent an exercise of National Accreditation & Assessment by National Accreditation & Assessment Council, Bangalore. It has been assessed B++ (83.85%). The college has the pride of being hub for EDUSAT (The Tele Education Project for J&K launched by ISRO).

The main aim of the college is to promote quality education through continuous effort, conviction and commitment, to empower women and enable them to rise above all constraints, to introduce innovative courses which will not only strengthen educational inputs for the good of the society but also make the students face challenges of life effectively, to develop all round social personalities through a wide variety of curricular and co-curricular activities and to offer a wide range of choices for study at various levels of P.G or U.G catering to a cross section of students from all backgrounds.