Bishop Benziger College of Nursing, Kollam, Kerala is a Unit of Bishop Benziger Hospital Society. It is a charitable society under the Diocese of Quilon, which opened an avenue of health care service to the people since 1948.Under the leadership of Rt. Rev. Dr. Paul Antony Mullassery, the Bishop of Quilon, the diocese runs many aided and unaided institutions in educational, health care, social services, and pastoral sectors.
Bishop Benziger College of Nursing, Kollam founded in 2004 by the then Bishop of Quilon Rt. Rev Dr.Stanley Roman, is a Christian minority educational institution. The college is approved and recognized by Indian Nursing Council (INC) and is affiliated to Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council (KNMC) and Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS). The College offers B.Sc. Nursing programme since 2004 and M.Sc. Nursing since 2010 in five specialties namely Medical Surgical Nursing, OBG Nursing, Child Health Nursing, Community Health Nursing and Psychiatry Nursing. The institution also offers Ph.D. programme in nursing as it is a recognized Research Centre of KUHS since 2019.
Our institution is the second nursing institution in Kerala to get accredited by NAAC with CGPA 2.77(B Grade) in 2016, and the first institution under KUHS to get quality accreditation with A+ grade. The college is the only health care institution in Kerala having membership in the prestigious United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI).
The institution is committed to quality care of patients through education, practice and research.