Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce

Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce is a college in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The college was established in 1943 by the Deccan Education Society. It is affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University.

Dr. S. U. Purohit is the current principal of the college.

History
Deccan Education Society, Pune was established in 1884 and registered on 13th August 1885 and by four patriotic visionaries- Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Mahadeo Ballal Namjoshi- who were already recognized as the pioneers of new education in India with the Launch of New English School in Pune in the year 1880.

D. G. Karve, an economist and sometime Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, was the first principal of the college. Karve stated that the mission of the college was to "make a citizen of India as fully endowed materially, intellectually and morally as the citizens of the most advanced country of the world."

It started as the College of Commerce in the Amphi theatre of the Fergusson College on 20 June 1943. Sir Ardeshir Dalal formally inaugurated the college on 24 June 1943. Chandrashekhar Agashe, managing agent of Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate donated Rs 2 lakhs to the college, which was renamed as the Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce. The naming ceremony was performed by Sir Chintamanrao Deshmukh, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, on 11 November 1944.

Until 1949, BMCC was affiliated with Bombay University, which had a larger province under its jurisdiction. After 1949, it became affiliated with University of Pune.

BMCC celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1993–94 by opening an academic project, the Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe Business Motivation, Training and Research Centre (CGA BMTRC). The CGA BMTRC Building, the Nav Maharashtra Hall and the Computer Laboratory were inaugurated on 2 August 1998.

In 2005, the college celebrated its Diamond Jubilee with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the chief guest. The 'Principal D. G. Karve Chair in Commerce & Economics', an academic research position, was launched to mark the occasion.

Notable alumni

 * Alok Rajwade – Actor
 * Amey Wagh – Actor
 * Ashutosh Agashe – MD, Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate
 * Cyrus Poonawalla- Chairman, Poonawalla Group
 * Dnyaneshwar Agashe – Cricketer
 * Girish Bapat – Politician
 * Madan Deodhar – Actor
 * Mohan Joshi – Actor
 * Nipun Dharmadhikari – Actor, Writer and Director
 * Prasad Oak – Actor, director, writer, singer, anchor, poet and film producer
 * Ram Naik – Politician
 * Sayali Gokhale – Badminton Player
 * Sharad Pawar – Politician
 * Sulajja Firodia Motwani – Vice Chairperson, Kinetic Engineering Limited
 * Siddharth Menon – Actor
 * Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni – Writer, Director
 * Nipun Dharmadhikari – Director
 * Sachin Kundalkar – Director
 * Namita Thapar - Entrepreneur
 * Rachana Ranade - Financial Expert