About Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce, Osmania University, one of the oldest and largest departments in the country, has been serving for the last 75 years for its noble contribution to the commerce education and literature and unstinted service to the student community. The department came into existence as an independent wing of the Osmania University with the launching of B.Com. course in 1945. The department has been offering several streams of commerce courses at both undergraduate and post graduate levels catering to about 1,20,000 undergraduate students and to about 1,500 post graduate students in about 440 undergraduate colleges and about 40 post graduate colleges spread over Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy and Medak in Telangana State.

The department offers Master’s Programme in Commerce- M.Com with different specializations in the University Campus and three constituent colleges viz., Nizam College, University College for Women and University P.G. College Secunderabad. The department also offers M.Com (IS) and PG Diploma in Taxation in the campus. The department is rich by its robust faculty, some of whom are the Best Teacher Awardees by the State Government and other reputed national and international organizations.

The department runs a quarterly journal “Osmania Journal of International Business Studies” which has very large readership all over the world. The department has been on the map of SAP, DRS (third stage) of UGC, New Delhi. The department is proud of Dr. Y. Venugopal Reddy who took/awarded is Doctorate Degree from the Department of Commerce, who was the Governor of RBI, India.