Yashwantrao Mohite College of Arts, Science and Commerce (YMC), Pune was eastablished in 1978. It is affiliated to University of Pune.

Bharati Vidyapeeth, the parent institution has created a landmark in the history of higher education by establishing three institutes in June 1978 and Yashwantrao Mohite College is first of them. The college is accredited with NAAC ‘A’ grade in 2004, Re-accredited with ‘A’ grade in 2011 and for Third cycle in 2017 re-accredited with ‘A+’ grade. At present, the college is one of the constituent units of Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University).

The college offers under graduate and post graduate programmes in various disciplines of Arts, Science, Commerce and Computer Science leading to B.A., B.Sc., B.Sc. (Computer Science), B.Com., M.A. (English), M.Sc. (Analytical Chemistry), M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry), M.Sc. (Microbiology), M.Sc. (Computer Science) and M.Com. degrees. The college is recognised Research Centre for Ph.D. degrees in English, Economics, Marathi, Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Mathematics, Computer Science and Commerce.

The special feature of the college is that along with degree courses, the College also conducts two diploma programmes: (1) Diploma in Banking and (2) Diploma in Marketing, which have proved of great help to the students for their placements. In addition, two UGC sponsored Career Oriented Courses in (1) Spoken English (2) Identification and Conservation of Medicinal Plants are introduced for enhancing the employability skills of the students.

The college promotes national integration by admitting the students from 29 states and has attained international status by accommodating the students from 32 countries. The welfare of the students is always the prime concern of the college. Several activities are organized to support and enhance the capabilities of the students. Publication of the annual number Yashobharati, arranging Cultural Festival ‘Sanskriti’ and conducting National Level General Knowledge Test, as well as organization of National Seminars and workshops every year are some of the features of the college.

The college is honoured with 'Best NSS UNIT Award' and the Programme Officer received 'Best NSS Programme Officer Award' as well as four students with 'Best NSS Volunteer Award' by Government of Maharashtra. The sports department of the college has created landmarks in the history. Twelve of our students are felicitated with the highest honour in the field of sports offered by the state government i. e. 'Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Award' and the college has contributed to several National teams by participation of the students.

The college also provides the hostel facilities to both boys and girls students. The facilities like state-of-art laboratories, excellent library, health care centre, seminar hall, Commerce laboratory, indoor and outdoor game facilities and gymnasium are provided to the students.

The objectives of the institute is to inculcate a value systems among students like non-violence, truth and tolerance for religion, secularism, social justice, environmental awareness and scientific tamper, develop scientific attitude, technical education and practical skills among the students for promoting the use of technology.

Their mission is social transformation through dynamic education and their goal is create global citizens by imparting quality education.

YMC is located in Paud Road, Erandavane 6 km away from Shivaji nagar Railway Station and 20 km away from Lohgaon Airport.