Bachelor of Commerce (Management Studies) (B.M.S.)

A candidate for being eligible for admission to the B.M.S. Degree Course shall have passed H.S.C. Examination of the Maharashtra Board of Higher Secondary Education or its equivalent examination or Diploma in any Engineering branches with two years or three years duration after S.S.C., conducted by the Board of Technical Education, Maharashtra State or its equivalent examination by securing minimum 45% marks for general category (in one attempt) at the respective Examination and minimum 40% marks for the reserved category (in one attempt)"

Eligibility for B.M.S. Admissions

A reference is invited to the Ordinances, Regulations and syllabi relating to the Bachelor of Management Studies (B.M.S.) degree course vide pamphlet No.309 and this office circular No. UG/278 of 2007, dated 16th June, 2007 and the Principals of the affiliated Colleges in Arts, Science, Commerce and Engineering and Professor-cum-Director, Institute of Distance and Open Learning are hereby informed that the recommendation made by the Faculty of Commerce at its meeting held on 8th September, 2009 has been accepted by the Academic Council at its meeting held on 17th September, 2009 vide item No.4.13 and subsequently approved by the Management Council at its meeting held on 25th September, 2009 vide item No.21 and that,in accordance therewith, it has been amended Ordinance 3941 relating to the eligibility of B.M.S. degree course to read as under :

Q.3941 :

"A candidate for being eligible for admission to the B.M.S. Degree Course shall have passed H.S.C. Examination of the Maharashtra Board of Higher Secondary Education or its equivalent examination or Diploma in any Engineering branches with two years or three years duration after S.S.C., conducted by the Board of Technical Education, Maharashtra State or its equivalent examination by securing minimum 45% marks for general category (in one attempt) at the respective Examination and minimum 40% marks for the reserved category (in one attempt)"

No college shall conduct any entrance test in any form and the admissions are purely based on merit duly following the reservation policy as per the norms of Government of Maharashtra. While drawing the merit list, weightage has to be given to students from Arts, Commerce and Science stream at 12th Standard level. The stream wise weightage to be given is as under :

The Aapplications are to be accepted and processed by the colleges stream wise separately and the merit list is to be displayed stream wise taking into account the reservation policy prescribed by the Government of Maharashtra.

• The merit list is to be prepared and displayed streamwise.
• In case if no applications are received under the "Diploma in Engineering and Other Category" or if the seats remain vacant in "Diploma in Engineering and other Category" after all the merit lists / forms are exhausted, the vacant seats must be transferred to Commerce Stream.
• In case if no application is received from any stream the vacant seats are to be distributed equally between the remaining twostreams only.
• After the first merit list is displayed, if any seat allotted to one stream remains vacant, the same shall be distributed equally between the remaining two streams. In case of vacancy in one stream is of single / odd number of seats, the single seat is to be allotted to the Commerce Stream. In case if no applications are available from the two stream, then all the vacant seats of such two streams must be transferred to the third stream.
• Step(d) be repeated for the subsequent merit lists till all the forms are exhausted or the final merit list is displayed, whichever is earlier.

• I SEM
• II SEM
• III SEM
• IV SEM
• V SEM
• VI SEM