Sophia College for Women

[2][3][4] The Society of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic religious order was founded in France in 1800, by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, a young Frenchwoman.

[5] The Sophia College campus area and the land in the vicinity belonged to the British East India Company, and was later subdivided and sold.

The Home and Social Culture centre was formally opened by Archbishop Roberts and the name adopted; Mother Andersson became the first principal.

Karuna Mary Braganza, who would later receive the Indian civilian honour of the Padma Shri, took over as the Principal of the college in 1965.

In 1993, the post graduate diploma course in Quality Assurance in the Food and Pharmaceutical Industries was introduced.

The course offers documentary film production,[11] photography,[12] journalism, corporate communication and advertising.

[13] Alumni of this degree include Deepa Bhatia, Reema Kagti, Richa Chadha, Anubha Bhosle, Rasika Dugal