University College of Arts

The Government College, Tumkur was established in 1940 as an Intermediate College. In 1948, the Intermediate College was converted into a Government College. In 1966, the College acquired a new building in the outskirts of Tumkur with an 80-acre campus. Owing to the overwhelming pace of growth, the College was bifurcated in 1974 into Government Arts College and Government Science College. In 2009, Tumkur University recognised the College as a constituent college of the University and renamed it ?University College of Arts'.