Karnatak Science College (KSCD), Dharwad, is an educational institute in the North Karnataka region of India.
The Karnatak College was established by the painstaking efforts of: Diwan Bahaddur S K Rodda, a member of the Bombay Legislative Council on behalf of Southern Division, for three terms, undertook a vigorous campaign to collect two lakh of Rupees for the foundation of Karnatak College.
Rao Bahaddur R C Artal, one of the founders of the Lingayat Education Association, Dharwad, collected one hundred thousand of rupees toward the establishment of the Karnatak College.
The staff, students and alumni of Karnatak College (Arts & Science) remember the efforts made by these pioneers by celebrating Founder's day every year.
G. S. Paramasivaiah, who was a student of the Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman, was the first Principal of the Karnatak Science College.
7914 of the Education and Industries Department, the Government of Bombay, a committee was constituted on 17 April 1947 to make recommendations regarding form, scope, constitution and jurisdiction of a university for Karnataka (which meant Bombay-Karnataka because Bombay-Karnataka was the southern part of Bombay Province).
The college has a huge campus, centrally located in Dharwad City, housing several buildings, a botanical garden, and a sports ground.
The distinguishing feature of the college is that each department has its own library, reading room, a museum/ storeroom and laboratories.
To keep pace with the latest developments, Electronics was introduced as an optional subject in 1994 and Computer Science in 1995.
The department has three lecture halls, five laboratories, an independent library, and one computer lab with internet facility.
The Einstein Study Circle, Department of Physics, Karnatak Science College, Dharwad, is involved in activities like arranging lectures and workshops, conducting competitions – quiz, debate, seminars and personality development and people skills program.
Students are encouraged to display articles in the wall paper of the Einstein Study Circle, named "COSMOS".
It is one of the very few places in the country with a well-established, undergraduate course in Forensic Science,[2] with qualified faculty.