Birla College, was established in 1972, an affiliate of the University of Mumbai

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, Accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council

National Assessment and Accreditation Council

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 awarded with 'A' Grade is a multi-faculty institution of higher education with an enrolment of more than 8,500 students. The college campus is spread over 20 acres (80,937.2 m²) in the prime locality of Kalyan

Kalyan

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 in Mumbai

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Syt. Basant Kumar Birla is the Chairman Basant Kumar Birla

Basant Kumar Birla

Basant Kumar Birla is the son of Ghanshyam Das Birla,, the father of the late Aditya Birla, Grandfather of Kumar Mangalam Birla, brother of Krishna Kumar Birla and Chairman of BK Birla Group, Krishnarpan Charity Trust, BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pilani and various educational...

 of Birla Group of Companies and Dr. (Smt.) Sarala Birla.

The college offers several UG Programmes in Arts

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, Science

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 and Commerce

Commerce

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 and PG Programmes in Botany

Botany

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, Biotechnology

Biotechnology

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, Bioanalytical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Chemistry

Chemistry

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, Herbal Science, Computer Science

Computer science

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, Information Technology

Information technology

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, Physics

Physics

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, Microbiology

Microbiology

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, Zoology

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, Hindi

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, Marathi

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, Commerce

Commerce

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 and E-Commerce and Ph.D. in Botany, Biotechnology

Biotechnology

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, Physics

Physics

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, Microbiology

Microbiology

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, Chemistry

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 - Nanotechnology

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 and Hindi

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. The College

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 conducts three year Bachelor of Management Studies (B.M.S.) and Bachelor of Mass Media (B.M.M.) programmes. The college has taken initiative to introduce relevant interdisciplinary need-based Career Oriented 'Add on' courses. The College also conducts a PGDMLT programme.

The College conducts BA,BCom,B Lib and MBA programme of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University

The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University was established in July 1989 by Act XX- of the Maharashtra State Legislature, named after Yashwantrao Chavan, Maharashtra’s great political leader and builder of modern Maharashtra. It is the fifth Open University in India...

, Nashik through Contact Sessions. The YCMO University has established Virtual Learning Centre at Birla College which enables the students to receive lectures through EDUSAT (Satellite). The College is also a Centre of Institute of Distance Education of University of Mumbai.

The College conducts MBA programme of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University

The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University was established in July 1989 by Act XX- of the Maharashtra State Legislature, named after Yashwantrao Chavan, Maharashtra’s great political leader and builder of modern Maharashtra. It is the fifth Open University in India...

, Nashik through Distance Learning Mode / Contact Sessions. The University has established Virtual Learning Centre at Birla College which enables the students to receive lectures through EDUSAT (Satellite).

Birla College has adequate infrastructure to meet the requirement of teaching, research and co-curricular activities/extra curricular activities including Sports, National Cadet Corps (India)

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, National Service Scheme

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, etc.

The simultaneous development of the intellectual, physical, cultural and emotional faculties of the students is achieved through various academic, co-curricular and extra curricular activities..

The results have always been higher than the University result. Many students figure in Merit Lists. In curricular and extra curricular activities also including National Cadet Corps (India)

National Cadet Corps (India)

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 and National Service Scheme

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The College has to its creadit many outsatnding achievements during the last decade.
The College was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council

National Assessment and Accreditation Council

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with a 5 Star status in 2002 and has now been Re-accredited and awarded 'A' Grade with CGPA - 3.37.
The College has been awarded with "College with Potential for Excellence" status for the 2010 by the University Grants Commission, the apex body for Higher Education Under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
The College has also been recently awarded with Best College Award by the University of Mumbai for the year 2008-09.