Abasaheb Garware College

Abasaheb Garware College of Arts and Science is a college located in Pune, India. It is run by the Maharashtra Education Society, a private education institution founded by Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Vaman Prabhakar Bhave and Laxman Narhar Indapurkar in 1860. The college was established in 1945 and named as "M.E.S College of Arts and Science". It was later renamed to its present name in the 1970s after a charitable donation by the industrialist Abasaheb Garware to the society.
Garware College offers HSC courses, along with Bachelors, Masters and PhD programs in Arts and Science. Approximately 5000 students study in this college.

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Programs offered

Garware College is an Arts and Science college. The college offers 11th & 12th grade studies as well as undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the fields listed below. Admissions for HSC courses are done through the Maharashtra FYJC allotment list, which in turn depends upon the SSC results of the concerned candidates. Admissions for graduate and undergraduate courses can be done via their official website.

[Bachelor of Arts]

BA in English
BA in Marathi
BA in Hindi
BA in History
BA in Economics
BA in Sociology
BA in Geography
BA in Political Science
BA in Psychology

[Master of Arts]

MA in English
MA in Hindi
MA in History
MA in Economics
MA in Political History
MA in Psychology
MA in Journalism and Mass Communications

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PhD in Economics
PhD in Hindi

[Bachelor of Science]

BSc in Botany
BSc in Zoology
BSc in Biotechnology
BSc in Microbiology
BSc in Chemistry
BSc in Physics
BSc in Mathematics
BSc in Statistics
BSc in Electronic Sciences
BSc in Computer Sciences
BSc in Cyber Security
Bachelors in Computer Applications

[Master of Science]

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Campus and Facilities

Public Transport

Abasaheb Garware College features several modes of Public Transport, supported by Infrastructure such as Bus Stops and the Garware College Metro Station, an elevated metro station on the east–west corridor of the Aqua Line of the Pune Metro, which was opened to the public on 6 March 2022.

Main Building

The Main Building Houses Several Departments like Physics, Botany, Zoology and Chemistry- Consisting of Laboratories and Classrooms. The College Office, as well as the Staff Room are Situated here.

Library

The AGC Library was started in 1945 along with the establishment of the college and continues to works as an important central support system for the entire college. It caters to the academic and research needs of the disciplines of Arts and Science, and serves as a center of knowledge for Junior, Senior, Post Graduate students as well as Researchers of all the Departments in the college. The 'Bachelor of Library and Information Science' course was started in AGC in 1992. Later, looking at the increasing demand of the students, the college later started the 'Master of Library and Information Science' course in 2009.

Facilities for the Differently Abled

An audio notice board was set up in the college for the visually impaired in mid-2018, allowing the students to listen to and keep up with college notices and announcements. The audio notice board, consisting of a pair of headphones, and a set of buttons for the students to choose their respective college year to listen to the test-to-speech translation of the notices put up by the college was designed by Nandan Gawte and Ankita Pawar, both former students of AISSM's College of Engineering.