Shree Varshney College, Aligarh was established in 1947 as Barahseni College. Shri Varshney College is affiliated to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University.

In 1965 the college name was changed to Shree Varshney College by the UP Govt. Shri Varshney College has Arts, Science, Commerce, Law, Education, Fine Arts faculties. Shree Varshney College has IGNOU Study Centre also apart from BBA, BCA, PGDBM, and PGDCM courses.

Shri Varshneya College popularly known as S.V. College is fully financed by the UP Govt. and registered under 2f and 12bwith the UGC and enjoys a status of Old Renowned College and regularly receives UGC grant for their development. The College is accredited with B++ grade by NAAC.

The college is affiliated to Dr. B. R. A. University Agra and is one of the well-known and eminent colleges of the University. The college was established in 1947. It’s an offspring of a commercial pathshala established on 14th May 1922 during the atmosphere of Non-cooperation Movement, which was raised to middle level in 1931, High school in 1939 and Intermediate in 1945.

Dr. Kanhaiya Lal Garg was appointed its founder Principal with a staff of 9 (nine) teachers and three clerks. There were twenty students in LL.B. Ist year and 33 students in B.Com. Ist year. The college has now completed more than six decades of journey. It has secured its place in the society as a multi faculty college with Humanities, Social Science, Commerce, Education and Law faculties with a total student’s strength of more than 6000 of which about 4000 are female students.

Higher education is mainly carried out with a purpose of research, consultancy and extension. The institution tries to develop a culture of excellence and social responsibility in all these areas. College administration, faculty and students work together to achieve this aim. The faculty of the institution equip students with research skills.

They also provide advisory services to various sections of the society. Due to lack of a clear revenue raising/ sharing policy of the government, paid consultancy projects are not taken up. Besides this, the college aims at overall personality development of the student by providing them with value based education, but at some points, the the college finds its hands tied as it is a non autonomous affiliated college of B. R. A. University, Agra.

The college has been accredited in 2007 with B++ grade by NAAC, and since then the college has centralized its efforts for enhancing quality according to the suggestions made by the Peer Team of NAAC. These suggestions have worked as the catalyst for continuation of the successful journey of the college.

VISION

To improve the quality of education and lead the institution to be a center of excellence by maintaining high standards of teaching learning process and by advancing the knowledge base through research and scholarship.

To equip the students to face challenges that new knowledge brings with an objective that they may have a holistic vision of life by engaging them in advancing scholarly enquiry, cultivating critical and creative thoughts and generating innovative knowledge within a value driven frame work.