STRENGTH, WEAKNESS, OPPORTUNITY AND CHALLENGES (SWOC):
- Institutional Strength:
- Proud part of the prestigious AISSM Society, which has a glorious legacy of 100 years of social reforms through education.
- Visionary leaders symbolizing integrity, transparency and participative management style.
- Long experience and reputation for quality education.
- Locational advantage as it is located in the heart of industrially developed Pune city, on highway and near to railway station, S.T. stand & airport.
- State-of-art physical infrastructure and eco-friendly campus.
- ICT enabled classrooms, seminar halls and board room.
- Computer Centre equipped with latest computers.
- Library has huge collection of wide range of books and journals, periodicals, e-resources and other learning material.
- Separate hostels for boys and girls. Transport facility for students.
- Qualified, competent and experienced faculty and staff members.
- Good culture and conducive environment for teaching-learning and professional development.
- Certificate Programs/Value Addition Programs for students over and above University prescribed syllabus.
- Faculty members use innovative, dynamic, interactive and ICT based teaching methods for making teaching-learning meaningful, understandable, interesting and enjoyable.
- Conducts various co-curricular, extra-curricular and extension activities for developing holistic personality of students and making them competent management professionals with strong ethical values.
- Professional counseling and mentoring sessions for students and provides them guidance for problem solving and career development.
- Excellent academic results.
- Training and Placement Cell which provides support to students for getting lucrative career opportunities.
- Entrepreneurship development activities for inculcating entrepreneurial culture amongst students.
- Good relationship with stakeholders – students, alumni, parents, faculty and staff members, employers / industries etc.
- Good relationship and tie-ups with training organizations, academic institutions, business organizations, government organizations and non-government organizations.
- Institutional Weakness:
- Needs to have funded major research projects.
- Needs to put thrust on training and consultancy work to industries.
- Needs to have an international tie-ups for its academic and research activities.
- Needs to start more programs and activities to ensure full utilization of its infrastructure.
- Institutional Opportunity:
- Opportunity for faculty and students exchange programs with reputed educational institutions
- Scope for tie-ups with prestigious foreign institutions.
- Good relationship with stakeholders can be utilized for strengthening research and consultancy activities.
- Scope for conducting more need based skill development programs.
- Opportunity to strengthen quality of placements.
- Institutional Challenge:
- Competition from other educational institutions, both local and foreign.
- Growing trend towards distance education and e-learning.
- Ever changing regulatory framework.
- Rising cost of education.