About the College

The Royal College of Arts, Science & Commerce  – a dream project  of the Founder, Asgar  E. Lakdawala, was established in June 1989 and governed by Royal Higher Education Society.

Brief History of the Governing Trust :

The   Royal  Society of Bombay  was   founded   on   28^th   December   1966     by   Asgar E. Lakdawala, a poor S.S.C. student at the time. He gathered together a very small group of four friends of his age hailing from  poor families,  and who had a spirit of service, sacrifice and understanding. The sole mission of the group was ‘Educational upliftment of poor and needy students of the Bohra Community’. Since 1966, year after year, increasing number of benefactors from Bohra community realized the importance of the mission set by the founder, and today there are about 600 life and patron members  associated with the trust. Since inception, the trust has strived to provide the basic needs of education, such as school bus service, payment of school  fees, distribution of books , uniform and stationery to the underprivileged students.

In the year 1986, while working as a lecturer at Elphinstone College, Founder of the trust dreamt of establishing an Arts, Science and Commerce College and founded Royal Higher Education Society for the same purpose. For bringing his dream into reality, he with his likeminded co-workers requested the philanthropists from Bohra Community to donate funds for the college project. Philanthropists realised his vision , mission and understood the zeal with which he was requesting for funds. The plot of land admeasuring  10,186 square meters for this Educational Campus was generously donated by Late Ismailbhai Kanga, the then Chairman of Srishti Housing Complex. . The financial support from the community resulted in establishing the Royal College of Arts, Science and Commerce  in 1989. The present shape of the campus is the result of the continuous generous financial support from the philanthropists.

Under the aegis of Royal Higher Education Society, in the same campus, following educational institutes have been set up

• Royal’s Hussain Adamally Girls’ High School (English Medium) – Estd . 1995
• Royal’s Yousuf Zaveri Girls’ Urdu School – Estd. 2001
• Taher Adamali College of Education for Women – Estd. 2012

The trust aims at the education of the Bohra and non-Bohra Muslim community and extends its facilities to other communities.

College at a Glance :

The college offers the following programmes –

• B.A. with Economics, Political Science, Sociology , Hindi and Psychology
• B. Sc. with Physics, Chemistry, Microbiology
• B.Sc. Computer Science
• B.Com
• BMS
• BAF
• M.Com (Advance Accountancy)

In keeping with Institution’s motto EMPOWERMENT THROUGH VALUE   EDUCATION, the institution strives to inculcate exemplary values in students, making them aware of social issues, rendering civic duties and service to the distressed. It has been making an indelible green mark in spreading environment consciousness over the years.

The girl students are given preference in this college as per mission of the trust.

A hallmark of the College has been the impeccable record of near 100% results at the University level every year since inception.

The college has been re-accredited an ‘A’ Grade by NAAC in its third cycle in the year 2019.