St Xaviers College - Ahmedabad

Overview

St Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, founded in 1955, the only grant-in-aid Christian Institution of Higher Education in the State of Gujarat, is run by a world-wide religious organization, the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556). Members of this organization, known as Jesuits, are also called “the schoolmasters of Europe” since they took up education of Europe in the Middle Ages. The Society of Jesus runs nearly 150 institutions of higher education across the world and 55 in India.