History
The Department of Commerce is one of the oldest and major Department of this University. It was inaugurated in the year 1968 with three faculty members. In the year 1972 an MBA course was started with an intake capacity of 20 students. Over a period of time the department has instituted a number of professional and vocational post-graduate, diploma courses like DCP & SA & Certificate courses in Computers. At present, the department has four Courses viz. M.Com., M.Phil. (Commerce/ Management Science) M.I.B. and D.B.M. course. In the year 1997 Department of Management science was set up and MBA course was transferred to the department of Management science.
The department, keeping in view the changing needs, has been organizing workshops, seminars and other research programs for the benefit of teaching fraternity in the affiliated colleges, as well as for teachers and students in the Department.
Uptill now 23 refresher courses in commerce and management science have been conducted and more than 1050 college teachers have got the benefits of the courses. In the field of research, number of major research projects sponsored by UGC, ICSSR, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Banks and other Agencies were carried out and completed successfully by the faculty members.
As a part of the text development activity of the department, the faculty members have published more than 600 research articles in the professional journals and magazines. In the field of text books writing and publications, the faculty of the department has shown keen interest in writing more than 150 books on the various subjects which are acclaimed as of high academic standards. Most of the faculty members are associated with the books production programme of the Yeshwantrao Chavan Open University, Nasik, and Maharashtra state.