Ahilyadevi College of Commerce and Science, Pune

Set in the midst of a sprawling lush green campus with multiplexes, shopping malls and a number of software technology parks in the neighbourhood, and in the heart of the industrial belt of Pimpri-Chinchwad, which is a major industrial hub and host to one of the biggest industrial zones in Asia, with state-of-the-art infrastructure.

The College of Commerce, Science and Information Technology was established in 2001 with the vision of harnessing the skill and potential of aspiring students and providing them the required professional grooming to face a highly competitive and globally connected world. This is to help them get an edge in their chosen professional streams.

The growth of the college was not just visible in increase in the number of courses but also in student strength. The college student strength has increased rapidly; from 100 in 1991-92, the year of establishment to 1,191 in the year 2000 to 4,685 in 2010 and 5,113 in the Academic Year 2016-17. The College featured in the merit list of the Savitribai Phule Pune University for the first time in the Academic year 2004-05, with our student Miss Mifrah Abid securing the University Gold medal for M.A English. Since then there has been no looking back and each year a number of our students have featured in the University merit list. It is indeed a matter of pride that more than 50 of our students have featured in the merit lists of the SPPU during the last 10 Academic Years. Since 2008 our college has consistently featured amongst the top five colleges of Pune City according to various surveys carried out and published in various issues of India Today. Issue dated 2nd June 2008, 25 th June 2009, 28 th June 1010, and 18th July 2011. It has also been recognized as an A grade College by NAAC, Bangalore. Another feather in the cap of achievement of our college is that we were awarded the Indira Gandhi National Level award for Best NSS Unit and Best NSS Program Officer by the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Government of India, in the year 2004. The year 2015-16 was celebrated by the College as its Silver Jubilee Year. The college has done some path breaking work in making education accessible to the minorities and weaker sections of society. Thus today at 25 years the College stands proudly amongst the leading educational institutes of Pune.