SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce is a

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-based college located in

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. Established by the South Indian Education Society, the college schools students from class 11 and 12 right up to advanced degrees and has research facilities and is affiliated to the

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. SIES has been ranked as the 7th best institute in India & 3rd in Mumbai for its Mass Communication Courses by ''The

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''.In the recent times college is being building recognized by various bodies as it Won the 2014-15 IMC NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD (Education Category) and Higher Education Forum Awarded "Innovation Award" in Graduate

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

category on 14 March 2015. Its being reaccredited with 'A' by

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with a CGPA score of 3.51 in third cycle of 2015.

History

SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce is a college in

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, India, owned and managed by the South Indian Education Society (SIES). Inaugurated on 20 June 1960 by Shri Y. B. Chavan, the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, with a

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followed by felicitation of Teaching Staff, Non-Teaching Staff and Students present during the year 1960-61 and completed its golden jubilee on 20 June 2009. It received an "A" grade from NAAC in 2015 with a score of 3.51/4.00. College celebrated its golden jubilee on 20 June 2009. The College was awarded autonomous status by the University Grants Commission on 1 June 2018 and on 30 June 2018 by the University of Mumbai

Grades and recognition

*IMC Bajaj National Quality Award (

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category) 2015 *An Award for "Innovation Initiatives" by Higher Education Forum In Graduate

Category. *Best College Award 2010-11,by

. *College received an "A" grade from NAAC in 2015 with a

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of 3.51/4.00.,. *Trophy-Best College Magazine *Best College (Clean And Green Environment) * BEQET president Award

Courses

Junior college(MSBSHSE)

*F.Y.J.C (

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and

Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...

) *S.Y.J.C (

and

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UG Courses

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

(Politics, Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, English, Hindi, History-Politics, History-Economics, History-Hindi, History-Philosophy, Politics-Economics) *

Bachelor of Commerce A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, ''baccalaureates commercii'') is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, ...

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

Bachelor of Management Studies A Bachelor of Management or a Bachelor of Management Studies (BMgt, BMgmt) is an undergraduate degree for management studies offered by many universities throughout the world. The course allows you to obtain the knowledge and skills needed to as ...

Bachelor of Mass Media A bachelor is a man who is not and has never been married.Bachelors are, in Pitt & al.'s phrasing, "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating". (). Etymo ...

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology A Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, (abbreviated BSIT or B.Sc. IT), is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the information technology. The degree is normally required in order to work in the Information tec ...

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology A bachelor is a man who is not and has never been married.Bachelors are, in Pitt & al.'s phrasing, "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating". (). Etymo ...

*Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education (DECCEd)

Masters Programmes

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

Microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

Organic Chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...

Inorganic Chemistry Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subjects of organic chemistry. The distinction between the two disci ...

Biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

Botany Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

Zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

Bio-Technology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

Masters programmes by research

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

Doctoral programmes

Politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

Autonomous Courses

*PG Diploma in Counselling *PG Diploma in Special Education (Autonomous) *PG Diploma in Early Childhood Education (Autonomous) *PG Diploma in Guidance and Counselling (Autonomous)

Extra-curricular activities

College festival

"Visions", an inter-collegiate cultural festival of SIES.

ZERO Carbon Foot Print

The college in collaboration with

Stree Mukti Sanghatana Stree Mukti Sanghatana (''Women's Liberation Organization'') is a non-governmental organisation founded in 1975 working for the empowerment of women, chiefly by creating awareness in the society about women’s issues and improving the lives of wome ...

has started a Green initiative to REDUCE-REUSE-RECYCLE with RESPONSIBILITY. College has taken up an Organic Manure production program wherein the

food waste Food loss and waste is food that is not eaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous and occur throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about o ...

from canteen and horticulture waste from College surrounding has now been converted to Organic manure. The program has been initiated from 15 August 2014, and by now the college has converted approximately 2 ½ ton of biodegradable waste and has reaped around 200 kg of wet organic manure. The dry weight accounting up to 120 kg organic manure amounting to Rs. 2500/-.Through this initiative the college has saved this huge quantity of waste from going to dumping ground. Hence it has saved Natural resource and National wealth. The same project has been replicated at Kawthewadi, the adopted village at Karjat, Maharashtra. College has also initiated e-waste collection and recycling in collaboration with

. This e-waste is one of the most toxic and hazardous waste also responsible for fires at dumping grounds releasing toxic gases. With the help of NSS program the students of the college have till date collected approximately 100 kg of e-waste. Through this initiative college has reached masses and saved toxic and hazardous waste reaching dumping grounds. By saving this e-waste going to dumping ground it has also reduced water and air pollution as these e-waste leaches in water and generates toxic waste. These are some of the innovative and eco-friendly initiatives that college has started and look forward for plenty more. In an effort to reduce the carbon footprint the college is going Green.

Library

The Library has seen advances and is being utilised by students pretty well with a wide variety of collection. In order to know the status of book availability, the library is built with an

OPAC The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with '' library catalog'', is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously ...

system using open source software Koha to see visit the online library http://libcatsiesw-koha.informaticsglobal.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl

Publications

SIES has an official college magazine titled "Dakshinayanam" which was also awarded the Best College Magazine by MU. It also has a BMM department's bi-monthly newsletter named "Skyline". The origin of departmental newsletters was started by the Zoology department under the guidance of Mr. Madhavan Gopalan

Institutes

The college has "SIES Institute for Comprehensive Education" in its campus. Other sister institutes under the SIES management are; *

SIES College of Commerce and Economics SIES College of Commerce & Economics is an educational institute located at Sion, Mumbai. Established by the South Indian Education Society, the college is a South Indian linguistic minority institution. History SIES College of Commerce & Econ ...

SIES Graduate School of Technology SIES Graduate School of Technology (SIES GST) is an engineering college, an integral part of SIES, and was started in the year 2002. It is one of the Institutes in Navi Mumbai imparting Engineering Technical Education. The institute is appro ...

SIES College of Management Studies SIES College of Management Studies (SIESCOMS) is a South Indian Education Society (SIES) campus located in Nerul, a node of Navi Mumbai. SIESCOMS was established in 1995 with the primary objective of providing quality management education and m ...

SIES Nerul SIES (Nerul) College of Arts, Science & Commerce, popularly known as SIES Nerul, is a college in Nerul, Navi Mumbai, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and de ...

Notable alumni

Aruna Sairam Sangita Kalanidhi Aruna Sairam is an Indian classical vocalist and carnatic music singer. She is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the Government of India and has been elected as Vice Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Academy (India's premier ...

* Ganesh-Kumaresh * Hariharan *

Naresh Iyer Naresh Iyer (born 3 January 1981) is an Indian playback singer. Born Mumbai, Iyer is fluent in Malayalam,Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Marathi. Naresh Iyer has rendered 2000 film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to hi ...

Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. Personal life and early career Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tami ...

Shreya Ghoshal Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer and television personality. One of the highest-paid and most well-established playback singers of Indian cinema, she has received four National Film Awards, four Kerala State Film Awar ...

Erica Fernandes Erica Jennifer Fernandes is an Indian actress and model, who works in Indian television and films. She got her breakthrough with her television debut, portraying Dr. Sonakshi Bose in ''Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi''. Erica has also acted in many ...

* Latha Venkatesh - Executive Editor, CNBC. * Varsha Gaikwad * Sudha Menon *

Aditya Narayan Aditya Narayan (born 6 August 1987) is an Indian people, Indian singer, host and actor. He is the son of singer Udit Narayan. He is known for hosting Indian Idol and participating in Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 9. Personal life Narayan w ...

*Major Ramaswamy Parameshwaran - PVC
Swarna Srikanth
- Web Journalist, Free Press Journal Palak sidhwani - actress

References

External links

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