St. Aloysius College is a Jesuit college in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. It is situated on a 37-acre (150,000 m2) campus atop Light House Hill, overlooking the Arabian Sea.
The College was affiliated to Mangalore University, becoming Autonomous from 2007. It offers graduate and post-graduate diploma and Ph.D. programmes in a wide variety of subjects in the humanities, sciences, commerce, and management. The College also has a primary, middle school, high school and offers pre-university courses in science, commerce and arts.
The College traces its origins to 1880 when European Jesuits who had landed in Mangalore three years earlier set up a college for the education of the local Mangalorean Catholic youth. Along with the college was built a chapel dedicated to St. Aloysius Gonzaga and painted by a Jesuit Brother, Antonio Moscheni, who came from Italy specifically to do the work. This unique work of Baroque art in India is visited by thousands of people every year.
