The Department of Commerce was established in the year 1982 with 01 teacher and about 60 students. Over a period of 36 years, the department has grown from strength to strength and now has 11full time faculties and 800 students. This is the biggest department in the college and more than 75% of the total student’s strength of the college consists of commerce students. Out of the 12 staff members, 5 have obtained PhD, Degrees, 3 are pursuing M. Phil’s. The Faculties has been recognized as Research Guide, Chairmen of DOC, BOS, BOE, and Syllabus Revision Committee Member and they have been conferred with a number of prestigious State, National and International awards. The department has organized several workshops, seminars, competitions, the faculty of the department consistently encourages the students to participate in sports, NSS, NCC and other extracurricular activities.
Department has having full fledged Business Lab working under the guidance of the coordinator Prof., B Manjunatha Prasad and Asst., coordinator Prof., Srikhanth. The lab activities by the student’s resulted is 712 short term project on various issues, 102 online projects, 229 display charts and 19 business models for conducting student projects both online and offline.
The department adopted and made use of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching techniques effectively. There is academic flexibility in vertical growth of students’ community to join for MBA and M.Com. Courses in our own college.