St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad Facilities

The college also provides various facilities for the students and faculty. Some of these are given below:

Library:

The library has a vast digital collection of books, journals, databases, audio-visual aids, CDs, DVDs, e-books, project reports, course material, classics, and bound volumes of earlier examination papers. The timing of the library is from 9:30 am to 5.30 pm.

Plant Tissue Culture Lab:

The Plant Tissue Culture Lab (PTCL) was set up in 2013 to train Bioscience students in the nuances of Plant Tissue Culture with an extension of developing entrepreneurial skills. The lab also organizes workshops and training for neighbouring college and school students.

Supercomputer lab: 

It was set up to house a computer with a high computing facility which was procured with DST funding. There are many publications and international collaborations that have been established based on this new laboratory.

Xavier Industrial Chemistry Unit: 

The unit is engaged in producing colorful candles, detergents, and other cleaning agents as an outcome of their classroom learning. The unit also conducts training programs for students of other colleges.

Xavier Laboratory for Research and Development (XLRD): 

The laboratory has many equipment available for the purpose of research such as Electrophoretic system, Blotting systems, Refrigerated centrifuges, High volume Centrifuges, High-Performance Thin Layer Chromatography etc. 

UTCARSH: 

It is a special cell for the physically and visually challenged students of the College. The cell organizes various activities and programs for their personal growth and integration.