# Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics

Sydenham College of Economics is a college located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is affiliated to the Dr. Homi Bhabha State University. The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in management. It was awarded a re-accreditation 'A' grade and 3.42 GPA in the second cycle assessment conducted by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

## History

Sydenham College was established in October 1913. It was named after the then-governor of Bombay, Lord Sydenham of Combe, K.S. Aiyar acted as first honorary principal of the college. The economist Percy Anstey was appointed Principal in 1914, a position he held until his death in 1920.
Sydenham was the first college to offer Commerce education in Asia. It was only in 1941, twenty-eight years after the establishment of Sydenham College, that any other institute started offering courses in the subject. Indian Jurist and intellectual B.R. Ambedkar was a lecturer of the college.
On the college's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988, the Indian Post Office issued a commemorative stamp.
In the year 2019, Sydenham college was de-affiliated from Mumbai University and affiliated to Dr. Homi Bhabha State University.

## Location

* 1913: The college was run from the Elphinstone College premises in Fort.
* 1914–1922: The college moved to the Whiteway Laidlaw Building on Hornby Road, near the present-day Handloom House in Fort.
* 1922–1955: The college was on the premises of the present-day Sir J. J. College of Architecture in Fort, opposite the Victoria Terminus railway station. It was then known as the Indo-British Institute.
* 1955 onward: In 1955, Sydenham College moved to its current location on "B Road" at Churchgate, very near the terminus of the Western Railway section of the Mumbai suburban railway. It is close to the Marine Drive sea front on the Arabian Sea.

## Courses offered
### Government aided courses

* Higher Secondary Certificate - Commerce
* Bachelor of Commerce (since 1913)
* Master of Commerce (since 1925)

### Self financed courses

* Bachelor of Management Studies
* Bachelor of Commerce (Banking and Insurance) (since 2003)
* NSE Certified Market Professional Course
* Vocational Course in Foreign Trade

## Notable alumni
### Business

* Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways
* Ashwin Choksi Entrepreneur, non-executive chairman of Asian Paints Ltd
* Keki Mistry, vice chairman and CEO of HDFC
* Deepak Parekh, Chairman HDFC
* Girish Paranjpe, joint CEO Wipro Technologies
* Krish Iyer, president and CEO Walmart India
* Kumar Mangalam Birla
* Dilip Piramal, Chairman VIP Industries
* Harsh Mariwala, founder and Chairman of Marico
* Nimesh Kampani, Chairman, JM Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.
* Niranjan Hiranandani, Entrepreneur, Co-founder & MD - Hirandani Group
* Pramit Jhaveri, CEO, Citi India
* Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Investor & Trader
* Ronnie Screwvala, Chairman, UTV
* Sanjiv Mehta, owner, East India Company London
* Uday S Kotak, Chairman Kotak Mahindra
* Ashok Vaswani, MD & CEO-designate of Kotak Mahindra Bank
* Yogesh Mahansaria, Founder and CEO multinational Alliance Tire Group
* Bhavin Turakhia, Founder of Flock, Ringo, Radix and Zeta.

### Education

* Gita Johar, Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
* Jagdish Bhagwati, Economist and Professor of Economics at Columbia University

### Film, theatre and television

* Aditya Chopra, Director & Producer
* Atul Agnihotri, Actor & Director
* Emraan Hashmi, Actor
* Fazila Allana, notable TV producer, founder and MD of Sol Production Pvt. Ltd.
* Gayatri Joshi, Indian actress known for her role in Hindi film Swades
* Hrithik Roshan, Actor
* Juhi Chawla, Actress and Femina Miss India Universe 1984
* Karanvir Bohra, Television Actor
* Lymaraina D'Souza, Indian model and Femina Miss India Universe 1998
* Rahul Bose, Actor
* Uday Chopra, Actor
* Milan Luthria, Director
* Sameera Reddy, Indian film actress
* Sanaya Irani, Television Actress
* Sanjay Gupta, film director
* Shamita Shetty, Indian film actress
* Sheetal Mallar, Indian supermodel
* Shiamak Davar, dancer and singer
* Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Indian pop singer and actress
* Swapnil Joshi, TV actor-comedian
* Vinod Khanna, Actor
* Zeenat Aman, Indian film Actress
* Rajit Kapoor, Actor

### Politics and government

* Meera Sanyal, politician, formerly country head of ABN AMRO and RBS
* Milind Deora, Politician
* Omar Abdullah, Politician
* Praful Patel, Politician
* Vinod Khanna, Politician & Film Actor
* Rais Shaikh, Politician
* Julio Riberio, IPS

### Others

* Dinesh D'Souza, Political commentator
* Vijay Merchant, Cricketer
* Jawahar Bakshi, Gujarati poet
* Bhupen Khakhar, a leading artist in Indian contemporary art