About Madras Christian College in Narhi, Chennai

The Madras Christian College is a liberal arts and sciences college in Madras, India. Founded in 1837, MCC is one of Asia's oldest extant colleges. The college is affiliated to the University of Madras but functions as an autonomous institution from its campus in Tambaram, Chennai.Established originally as a school for boys in the place where Anderson Church is located, the institution evolved into one of the pioneering modern colleges for higher education in India by mid-Nineteenth Century. From its origins as a missionary endeavor by the Church of Scotland, it passed into administration by the Church of South India in 1947, following Indian independence from British rule.MCC has, among its professors and alumni, several civil servants, administrators, educators, business people and political leaders, around the world.HistoryBeginningsMCC has its roots in a small school for boys established in 1835 when two chaplains of the Church of Scotland in Madras, Rev. George James Laurie and Rev. Matthew Bowie founded the St. Andrew's School on Randalls Road in Egmore, Madras. At their request, the Church of Scotland sent a missionary to India to govern it. Missionary Rev. John Anderson, set up the institution as the General Assembly's School, conducting classes in a rented house on the east side of Armenian Street in Georgetown, Madras. The headmaster and 59 boys from St. Andrew's School moved to this institution. It was named after the supreme governing body of the Church of Scotland and aimed at attracting students from the Hindu higher castes with the aim of "conveying as great as an amount of truth as possible through the channel of a good education especially of Bible truth". The college grew from the school into a 275acre wooded campus under the leadership of educationalist Dr. William Miller, who created hostels and several academic and cultural associations, which shaped MCC into a premier educational institution in South Asia.

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