St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam Department of Commerce 1. Name of the department : COMMERCE 2. Year of Establishment : 1963 3. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.):  B.Com-Taxation  B.Com-Computer Application  B.Voc-Logistics Management  M.Com –Financial Management  Ph.D  Ph.D Course Work 4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved: CPT- Department of Commerce, Department of Mathematics and Department of Economics 5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise) B.Com- Taxation, B.Com- Computer Application, B.Voc- Logistics and M.Com are of Choice Based Credit System 6. Participation of the departme nt in the courses offered by other departme nts NA 7. Courses in collaboration with other unive rsities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. B.Voc-Logistics Management 8. Details of courses/programmes discontinue d (if any) with reasons: Nil 9. Number of Teaching posts Sanctioned Filled Professors Nil Nil Associate Professors 4 4 Asst. Professors 5 5 Self Study Report, May 2015 Page 258 St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam 10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,) Name Qualificatio Designation Specialization n No. No. of Ph.D. of Students Yea guided for rs of the last 14 Exp years 33 10 erie nce M.Com.,LLB, Dr.A.M. MBA,M.Phil, Vis wambharan Ph.D Associate Professor Financial Management Lazar Thomas Mani M.Com., M.Phil Associate Professor Banking 30 Nil Dr.P.E.Mathe w M.Com., Ph.D Associate Professor Financial Management 28 Nil Dr. Gilroy Rozario M.Com.,LLB, Ph.D Associate Professor Financial Management 19 Nil Rosalind Gonzaga M.Com., B. Ed. Assistant Professor Finance 1 Nil Tia Mathe ws M.Com. B Ed, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Marketing 1 Nil Sharan Hilary M.Com. Assistant Professor Finance 2 Nil Neeraja T S M.Com. Assistant Professor Finance 1 Nil Neetha Francis M.Com. Assistant Professor 2 Nil 11. List of senior visiting faculty: Nil 12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme wise) by temporary faculty : B Com Comp. Application 10% Self Study Report, May 2015 Page 259 St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam 13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) graduation B.Com 48:01, M.Com 7:1 14. Number of acade mic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and filled : Nil 15. 16. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG:  Ph.D - 4  M Phil – 2  P.G – 9  MBA – 1 Numbe r of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding agencies and grants received One 17. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants received One UGC Minor Project of Rs.1,10,000 18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University 19. Publications: - Research Centre a) Publication per faculty Dr. A M Viswambharan - 9 Dr. Gilroy Rozario - 5 20. Areas of consultancy and income generated – Tax Planning & E-Filing Self Study Report, May 2015 Page 260 St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam 21. Faculty as members in a) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards: Dr.A MViswambharan 22. Student projects a) Percentage of students who have done in- house projects including inter departmental/programme – PG students -100% UG students – 100% b) Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies - Nil 23. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students - Nil 24. List of e mine nt acade micians and s cie ntists / vis itors to the departme nt –    25. Prof K Kayanaraman (Rtd Professor Kerala university) Sri. Benny John IRS (DIR of Income Tax) Sri. Jomon Joseph (Career Consultant & Trainer) Seminars/ Confe rences/Workshops organized & the source of funding a) National - Annexure XIII b) International - Annexure XIII 26. Student profile programme/course wise: Name of the Applications Course/programme received (refer question no. 4) Selected Enrolled *M *F Pass percentage B Com Taxation 5000 64 22 32 100% B Com CA 1000 50 17 33 - M Com Finance 600 18 2 16 100% Ph D - 3 1 2 - 12 4 8 - Ph D Course Work *M = Male *F = Female Self Study Report, May 2015 Page 261 St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam 27. Diversity of Students Name of the Course 28. B.Com Tax % of students from the 100state same % of students from othe r States Nil % of students from Nil abroad B.Com Computer 100 Nil Nil M.Com 100 Nil Nil Ph.D 100 Nil Nil Ph.D Course work 100 Nil Nil How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc.? 2009-10 to 2013-14 – 15 students (NET) 29. Student progression Student progression Against % enrolled UG to PG 21 PG to M.Phil. NIL PG to Ph.D. NIL Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral NIL Employed • Campus selection • Othe r than campus recruitment Entrepre neurship/Selfemployme nt 30. 22 NIL Details of Infrastructural facilities a) Library - Department Library with 300 titles b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students: 5 Computers with internet facilities c) Class rooms with ICT - One class room facility d) Laboratories- Computer lab with 15 computers Self Study Report, May 2015 Page 262 St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam 31. Numbe r of stude nts re ceiving financial assistance from college, unive rsity, gove rnme nt or other agencies: 80 32. Details on stude nt e nrichme nt programmes (s pecial lectures / works hops / seminar) with external experts 33.  National seminar on capital market  Invited talk on Direct Tax  Career Guidance Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning  ICT based teaching  D-Space  Learning Space  Remedial Coaching  Bridge Courses 34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities – sentinal activities – Helping poor students 35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans Strengths  Competent Faculty Members  Research Centre Facilities  Good reputation of the institution & department  Good Placement History  Accreditation for conducting CA – CPT, IPCC Courses  Lack of Research Room & Research Library Weakness Opportunities  New course in M. Phil, M.Com - E-Commerce  Short – term courses – Capital Market, Tally, Tax Practioner  Coaching for NET, CA – CPT, IPCC, ICWA &ICS  B.Com/M.Com – Part – time/ Evening course for other universities Challenges  Competition from other institutions conducting CA courses Self Study Report, May 2015 Page 263