St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli

St. Joseph's College is an autonomous Jesuit college in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, affiliated to Bharathidasan University. The Society of Jesus founded it at Nagapattinam in 1844 and moved it to Tiruchirappalli in 1883; it was affiliated to the University of Madras from 1866 and joined Bharathidasan University in 1982. The UGC made it autonomous in 1978. A private, aided Christian minority college owned by the Society of St. Joseph's, it runs aided and self-financing programmes on a campus of about 76 acres. NAAC awarded it an A++ grade in its fourth cycle in 2019, and the UGC gave it Special Heritage Status in 2015.

Classes run in two shifts across 22 undergraduate and 21 postgraduate programmes plus doctoral research, spanning the sciences, commerce, economics, languages, history and computing, including data science and artificial intelligence. Women may join every postgraduate course and selected undergraduate ones. Undergraduate places are filled on Class 12 marks through the college's online application; MCA applicants also need a TANCET score. The college maintains the Rapinat Herbarium, set up in 1967. In NIRF 2025 it is ranked 25th in the college category.