Thakur Educational Trust (TET) incepted Thakur College of Science & Commerce (TCSC) in the year 1992 with the purpose of enhancing human capabilities and a strong commitment to provide best and industry relevant education to students. Having started with a single division of 58 students of Junior Science, it has grown to a multifaceted institution that offers a wide range of programs in various fields.
TCSC caters to all students, from diverse backgrounds and provides a wide choice of opportunities for academic enhancement and all-round growth. Each student is offered an open platform to display his/ her talent or varied skill sets, in addition to curricular, co-curricular and extra- curricular activities. These varieties of programs inculcate and nurture the qualities of students such as leadership, administrative, organizing capability and managing skills.
TCSC is an NAAC accrediated institution with its processes standardised under ISO 21001:2018. University Grants Commission (UGC) has conferred ‘AUTONOMOUS STATUS’ (affiliated to University of Mumbai) for the period of 10 years to TCSC from the academic year 2019-2020. This Autonomous status gives greater academic freedom to design innovative programmes to meet industry needs, skill-based courses for employability and a quest for excellence.
The college offers various programmes of Junior Science and Junior Commerce, Undergraduate and Post Graduate programmes in the faculty of Science, Commerce and Arts. It is also has a recognized center for the Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry, Zoology & Physics. The College also has International Academic Collaborations with foreign Universities of Canada, Australia and United States of America to assist students explore newer avenues in their career advancement. Field trips, Industrial Visits, Seminars and Conferences organized by each department exposes the students to real life corporate situations.
The campus of the college is spread over 1.81 acres of land surrounded by the lush greens of National Park. ICT based classrooms, well-equipped Science Laboratories, modern Computer Labs, Media Studio Room, Research & Development Centre, Auditoriums, Innovation & Incubation Cell and a Library add to the academic ambience of the College. The vibrant Placement Cell of the College ensures participation from companies across all sectors providing ample training and career enhancement opportunities to all students. We take pride to ascertain a huge number of job placements of our graduate and post graduate students in prestigious companies.
The College believes in creating a conducive student- centric teaching learning environment that reflects positivity in its every activity. Sports facilities include a Gymkhana in the campus along with a huge ground for Cricket and Football, a Basket-Ball Court, Football Turf along with coaches of international repute. Students are encouraged to harness their skills and potentials in sports by providing them with best coaches of international repute. The student participation in clubs and assocaitions including National Service Scheme (NSS),
National Cadet Corps (NCC) etc. The highlight of the departments include a wide range of extracurricular and co-curricular activities includes inter-collegiate fests. Our Inter-Collegiate Academic and Cultural Fest, “TAARANGAN” is a value-adding life-skill development fest that attracts participants across the city and hosts celebrities from Television and Films. TCSC thus stands as a perfect melting pot for the budding acamedicians, business persons, artists, sportspersons, thinkers etc. who are future nation builders of a prosperous tomorrow.