Baring, a co-educational, partly residential college with about 1700 students and 70 teachers, is committed to provide high quality undergraduate education. The college is located in Batala (Punjab) on the Batala-Jalandhar road, one and half kilometer from the bus stand and close to the historic tomb of Shamsher Khan. This institution was started by the well known missionary Rev Henry Francis Baring in April 1878 in the form of a school known as “Baring Boys boarding School”.
Library: BUC College Library was started on 15.Jan.1960. The college library has earned a reputation for its vast collection of books. The library building has a seating capacity for 400 students at a time and it can stock more than one lakh books. The building provides all amenities for serious reading. At present, the library has more than 1, 00,000 books on various branches of knowledge; It receives more than 100 journals/Magazines and 11 daily newspapers. Besides this, it has a good collection of maps, non-book reading material and reference books material.
Sports: Games and Sports are considered an integral part of modern education and training for healthy life. The college follows a planned program for sports activities. The college encourages practically all the games and sports recognized by the University. It maintains well kept play grounds for hockey, football, basketball, cricket, tennis, badminton, and boxing. There is a also a 400 meter track. The sports department of Government of Punjab has selected Baring College as a subcentre for hockey, basketball, cricket and athletics.
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