Dharmaram College is a major seminary of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate congregation. It was started in 1918 at Chethipuzha, Kerala and relocated to Bangalore, India in 1957. The name Dharmaram is a portmanteau of the Sanskrit words dharma and arām (garden), to mean "garden of virtue." The name "garden of virtue" refers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotional title of Jesus under which the university is consecrated. "Isabhakti Paramjnanam," "Love of God is the Supreme Wisdom" is the motto of Dharmaram.