St. Joseph’s College of Teacher Education (St. Joseph’s B.Ed College), Mandya, Karnataka, India,dedicated to St. Joseph is established in 2016. It is recognized by Government of Karnataka, affiliated to University of Mysore and approved by NCTE, New Delhi. The institution is owned and run by the nuns of Karnataka Province of the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa (CSST).

CSST is a religious and charitable institute of a religious minority group within the purview of the constitution of India. It is one of the indigenous Congregation for women in Roman Catholic Church founded by Mother Teresa of St. Rose of Lima on the 24th April 1887.

Teacher Education at St. Joseph’s, Mandya has a legacy of 61 years. It has played a pivotal role in forming prospective teachers in meeting the global needs and has served as an agent of social transformation. Initially, it started under the Second Five Year Plan, where the Government of Karnataka asked four institutions to start Basic Teacher Training Course and St. Joseph’s Institution is one of its maiden Institutions to commence basic Teachers Training then it was named as TCH, D.Ed and now it is called D.Eled Programmes and gradually, it was upgraded to B.Ed College to train high school teacher trainees to meet the needs of the secondary and higher secondary education.