Meenal Sumant

ST MIRA'S COLLEGE FOR GIRLS PUNE

St. Mira's College is a part of the "Mira Movement in Education". Founded in the year 1962, St. Mira's is a dream realization of the progressive, visionary, saint, philosopher Sadhu T.L.Vaswani. Eminent citizens, well versed in academics, with strong leanings toward social issues and student welfare, grace the managing committee of the college. Proactivity and progression are the hallmark features of the college – this is easily evidenced in the fact that the college enjoys the rare honour of being the first city college, affiliated to Pune University, to be accredited by NAAC as also the first accredited Arts and Commerce college to go autonomous. This milestone easily distinguishes us on the educational firmament. The college is a well-acclaimed institution for degree courses with an outstanding record of high academic results, well-placed alumni, accountability, well-established self-correcting mechanisms and healthy practices. St. Mira's College for Girls, Pune was founded by the philosopher, Sadhu T. L. Vaswani in the year 1962. The College is committed to provide a value-based education which aims at empowerment of women through the triple training of the head, heart and hand. St. Mira's College for Girls has to its credit many awards and laurels to mention few: o Being the first college to be NAAC accredited in 2007 and followed by re-accreditation in 2012. o Amongst First 18 colleges in India to be conferred the State of College with Potential for Excellence o Recipient of Best College award by University of Pune o Ranked as Second Best Science college and Third Best Arts College in Pune o Recipient of Vidya Ratna Award by International School of Management and Research, Delhi o First College in Maharashtra to be granted Academic Autonomy At St. Mira's there is a co-existence of academics, curricular and extra-curricular activities. The College offers a wide range of UG and PG Courses.