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Vivekanand College, Kolhapur which was established in 1964 is known as one of the best quality colleges in Maharashtra. The U.G.C. granted autonomy to this college from the academic year 2018-19. About 8000 students are enrolled every year for various programmes. Besides the conventional programmes like B.A., B.Com.and B.Sc., the college offers the professional programmes like B.B.A., B.C.A., B.C.S., B.Sc. (Biotechnology) ,B.Sc. Microbiology, B.Voc. , Community College and M. B. A. The college also provides opportunity to undertake degrees like B.A.,B.Com.,B.Sc. , B.Lib.,M.Lib. and M.B.A. of YCMOU, Nashik.
The college has also acquired reputation in the fields of dance, drama, music, other arts and sports, besides academics. Our college has been securing the first place for last twenty years by winning maximum number of Shivaji University Merit Scholarships. The faculties of the college are not only excellent in teaching but also in research. Till date in all 27 minor and major research projects are undertaken by the faculties.
The college has won the ‘MeghnathNageshkar Trophy’ of Shivaji University for the Best College in the field of Sports for eleven years continuously. SandipTarate and SnehankitaVarute are the recipients of the “ChhatrapatiShivaji Award”. RahiSarnobat is the winner of the Asian Games held in Indonesia in August 2018. RahiSarnobat and VeerdhavalKhade represented India in ‘London Olympics-2012’, which is a historic record as both belong to the same college. Till date the college has produced more than 250 national and 10 international sports persons.
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