The Rajkumar College, Rajkot, Gujarat functions under the aegis of the Rajkumar College Trust registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950.
The honourable members of the Trust are :
HH Thakore Saheb Shri Mandhatasinhji of Rajkot
HH Maharaja Raol Shri Vijaysinhji of Bhavnagar
HH Thakore Saheb Shri Jaideepsinhji of Limbdi
HH Thakore Saheb Shri Padmarajsinhji of Dhrol
Thakore Saheb Shri Krishnakumarsinhji of Chuda
Thakore Saheb Shri Kirtikumarsinhji of Lathi
Thakore Saheb Shri Jitendrasinhji of Muli
• The Rajkumar College, Rajkot – one of the oldest of colleges founded for the education of the Princely order – was established in 1868 by the Princes and Chiefs of Kathiawar for the education of their sons and relations.
• On 16th December, 1870 the Governor of the Bombay Presidency, Sir Seymour Fitzgerald was invited for the official consecration and opening of the College and the institution began to function.
• The mission of the school is “to provide the rising generation of India education that shall enable it to hold its own in a world of constant change and ever increasing competition”.
• The Institution functions under the aegis of the Rajkumar College Trust, registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act.
• In 1938, on the initiative of its Founding Members, the college became a Public School – the first of such colleges to do so – and is also founder member of the Indian Public School Conference.
• The institution occupies an estate of 25 acres centrally situated in Rajkot.
• Its wide-range facilities are housed in its gifted, large and imposing buildings with a very distinctive Indo-Gothic type of architecture.
• The College is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, and prepares students for the All India Secondary and Senior School Examinations under the 10+2 Scheme for Science, Commerce and Humanities Streams.
• The College has state of the art laboratories for Electronics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and a highly equipped Mathematics Room and a Computer Centre with facilities for Multimedia and Internet.
• The College Library is well stocked with reading material suited for varying ages and standards.
• There are spacious, well equipped centres for Art and Music.
• The museum has on display a collection of rare books and memorabilia of more than 140 years of the college.
• There are comprehensive facilities and a carefully planned programme for physical education which includes age-wise coaching for Athletics, Basket Ball, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Tennis and Volley Ball.
• There are indoor facilities such as Swimming Pool, Gymnasium, Rifle Shooting range, Table Tennis, Squash and Badminton.
• The College Management in 2001, started giving admissions to girls. The school now also has boarding facilities for the girls.
• Once again keeping in pace with the changing times and with the far sightedness of the Trustees and the Principal, a new building has come up exclusively for the girls – The Rajkumar College for Girls with a built up area of around 70,000 sq. ft.
• Special facilities for Music, Art and Yoga are also designed.
• There is a conventional library in addition to an e-library to cater to the intellectual needs of today’s generation.
• The school boasts of having all three wings – Army, Air and Navy NCC Junior Division Boys and Girls. Our Cadets represent the Gujarat Directorate in the RDC Parade every year.
• At present we have collaborations with AFS, Rotary Club and the Gymnase Jean Sturm, Strasbourg, France for student exchange programmes.
• The college motto only says it all. “ Yasya Buddhi balam Tasya “ which means Knowledge is Power.