India is home to more people than any nation on earth, and for millions of young men and women, the years between sixteen and eighteen determine everything that follows. For students growing up in poverty, or facing the weight of caste and social discrimination, those years can just as easily close doors as open them. King’s College exists to make sure they open. For twenty-five years, King’s College has given academically able students from difficult circumstances a rare two-year window to live, to learn, and to grow into who they’re meant to become before they step into adulthood.
The work in Hyderabad belongs to the people who live it every day. Principal David Bonthu has led the campus for over a decade. Program Coordinators like Samson Shiva and Johnson Siddipet once sat in the same classrooms as students, and now shape the next generation from the front of the room. In Srigiripalli, Pastor Steven, a former King’s College staff member, hosts King’s College Extension (KCX), a day-student pilot launched in 2022 to extend the King’s College approach to more students without the cost of full residency.
King's College is a two-year residential program for students in grades 11 and 12.
Each year, a small class is chosen to find students with both academic potential and genuine need.
Classes are taught in English, a real leap from Telugu-medium backgrounds that shapes the first year.
Weekend and summer ministry activity gives young leaders real responsibility long before graduation.
Suman Damera arrived at King’s College from a small village, encouraged to apply by his local pastor. Two years later he left with more than a diploma: a foundation that carried him through a bachelor’s degree and then a PhD at Hyderabad Central University, where he was elected General Secretary of the student body and wrote his thesis on caste violence in Andhra Pradesh. Today, Dr. Damera lectures at Mizoram University, teaching the next generation of Indian students the way King’s College once taught him.