HR College or Hassaram Rijhamal College was founded in the year 1960 with five hundred students. HR College was the first college to go autonomous. The College has always endeavored to build up the overall personality of its students. The exact location of the HR College is; 123, Dinshaw Waccha Road, Churchgate, Mumbai.
With the increase in globalization, well-educated and motivated young generation of the east gradually shifts the capital to Asian markets, an emerging and speedily globalizing workforce and the surfacing of a large number of new consumers in markets of China and India. India possesses a statistic dividend of about 500 million or more youngsters. The HR College grabs the opportunity with modernized learning and teaching in order to convert into advantage this dividend.
HR College, located in the city of
Mumbai in
Maharashtra offers course in Commerce and Management Studies. Fifty percent of the seats in this college are reserved for Sindhi minority.
HR College is viewed as one of the best institutes in the city of Mumbai. One of the most refreshing features of college activity is the Talent Parade along with its fashion show, which provides a pageant to display their youthful talent such as music and dance. The college was the first institute which introduced the course on
Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS). It has a library which holds around 43,000 books. There are a number of clubs on campus like the Student`s Council, the Dramatic Society- Shristhi and the Hindi Sahitya Parishad. The HR College offers all modern facilities and comforts to the women staff and students. The Ladies Common Room bears chairs, comfortable sofas and hygienic attached bathrooms. There is a special lady assistant to cater to the needs of girl students. Facility for locker is also available in the common room. The Womens` Development Cell of HR College takes care of the health & hygiene of the girl students. Ninety five per cent of the College staffs are ladies and the staff room is constructed in order to cater to their needs like well-equipped kitchen, clean washrooms and pantry facilities. The staff room is fully air-conditioned.
Some of the famous Alumni of the HR College in Mumbai include the famous business man, Kumaramangalam Birla, Bollywood actor Aftab Shivdasani and Bollywood director,
Karan Johar.
The academic results of the HR College are always outstanding excels in intercollegiate festivals, social service and sports. This is one of the
colleges in Mumbai which tries to develop critical thinking in the minds of its students along with ethics. This is supported by techno-savvy classrooms, air-conditioned library equipped with all the relevant books, activity centres for students and up to date computer laboratories. It aims at making a valuable difference in the arena of higher education and in building up future leaders.