Balwant College, Vita

Balwant College, Vita, was a graduate-grade college that was established in 1963 and is affiliated. The college is located in Vita, Maharashtra. This qualified institution with a rating from NAAC offers undergraduate as well as postgraduate programmes across disciplines. The sprawling campus of this college covers an area of 16 acres.

As far as the student enrolment is concerned, there are 1,703 students, while the faculty members are 49 in number. Balwant College, true to its commitment towards quality education, offers 20 courses across eight degree programmes for co-educational male and female students. Balwant College boasts of state-of-the-art facilities put together for improving the learning experience of its students.

Also, the campus provides laboratories equipped with modern facilities for hands-on practical sessions. The library contains a long list of books and digital sources for students. It also has computer labs equipped with the latest technology.

To provide convenience to its students, the institution has provided separate hostels for boys and girls, which are equipped with solar systems, study rooms, and recreation spaces. It also accommodates a cafeteria providing fresh, healthy food and a health centre for medical care.

A variety of sports facilities are offered to all keen sportspersons and the fitness-orientated for their unrelenting use due to the on-campus gym. The college ensures campus-wide connectivity of Wi-Fi so that the internet will be reached without any issues to all resources present online.

Balwant College, an affiliated College of Shivaji University, Kolhapur , provides academic programmes that are sufficiently diverse enough to cater to the interests of students. Courses The institute runs 20 courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Undergraduate Programmes: Among these, programmes can be divided into two streams: traditional ones like BA, B. Sc. , and B. Com.

, and professional courses are BBA, BCA, and B. Com. in information technology. Postgraduate Programmes: The college provides an MA course in the faculties of English , Economics, History, and Marathi and M. Sc programmes in all the branches of Chemistry, Physics , Zoology, and Microbiology . In addition, the M. Com. programmes in Advanced Accountancy and Taxation are also offered to the commerce students.

The admissions procedure at Balwant College is largely merit-based and varies from one course to another. Undergraduate programmes like BA, B. Sc. , and B. Com. conducted by the institute strictly adhere to merit admission while keeping in mind the performance of the students in their HSC Board examinations.

Professional courses like BBA , BCA, and Bachelor of Computer Science require appearing for a common entrance exam held by Shivaji University, Kolhapur. The college's admissions are handled according to the university's schedule, usually within a couple of months after the announcement of the HSC results.

Quality education and a facilitating learning atmosphere provided by the institution continue to attract students from the locality and further out.