St Philomena College was founded by Msgr Antony Patrao who felt that a College in this part of the state would save the people of the inconvenience of moving to distant places for higher education. He set out to realize his dream and the mission was accomplished in the year 1958.
St. Philomena College, Puttur is affiliated to Mangalore University and it is managed by the Catholic Board of Education, Mangalore
It is biggest of its kind in the region with a complete upto-date infrastructure. It offers various part of Diploma and certificate course in computer application. It is equipped with spacious Laboratories with more than 200 computers of various configuration, power generator, UPS systems and Novel, Linux & Windows 2000 network environment with latest software. It also has an Internet Browsing section.