PROF. DR. VINOD S. INGAWALE Director School of Distance Education Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune

Hon’ble Founder Dr. Patangrao Kadam established Bharati Vidyapeeth in 1964 with very strong desire to bring about much needed ’Social Transformation through Dynamic Education’. His resolve to promote education among masses was due to his personal knowledge of hardships a student from rural background especially from socially disadvantaged classes is required to go through while seeking opportunity of education. With his astute leadership and fired by the inspiration from within as well as due to painstaking efforts of his younger brother Hon’ble Dr. Shivajirao Kadam, Vice Chancellor of  Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune together they have established 167 excellent educational units since 1964 till this date.

In view of the excellence of infrastructure and in view of unquestionable potential of profound growth of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, the University Grant Commission of Government of India granted university status (Under the UGC Act, under section 3) to 12 of the higher educational institutions of Bharati Vidyapeeth on 26th April, 1996. During last 16 years, the University has richly grown into multi campus, multi faculty University to be one of the largest in the country having as many as 32 higher educational institutions undertaking 252 different types of educational programmes benefiting lacks of students with high quality higher education. The present students population is in excess of 18000 and the University has more than 3000 highly qualified professional teaching faculty members. In appreciation of its academic excellence and commendable academic achievements, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University has been re-accredited with ’A’ grade by NAAC. It is a matter of pride that the National Accreditation Board (NAB) of AICTE has also awarded highly creditable ’A’ grade to our technical institutions.

Hon’ble Chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune Dr. Patangrao Kadam recognized the need of distance education programmes in order to reach the unreached. To implement the educational programmes under distance mode of education, he selected our own institutions of management located at Pune, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolhapur, Karad, Sangli and Solapur. These institutions are provided with excellent infrastructure such as computer laboratories with facility of internet browsing for the students. Further in these institutions, highly skilled technical and professional teachers are devotedly providing support to the students by way of special counselling sessions, teaching faculty contact sessions, student seminars, group discussions etc.