Somaiya Vidyavihar has been serving the city of Mumbai, the nation, and the world community for the past 50 years, providing its students with meaningful and relevant education that emphasizes both the liberal and professional aspects of higher education, steeped in rich Indian culture and heritage and rooted in universal religious philosophies of the world.

Within this context, Somaiya Vidyavihar provides educational opportunities to all qualified students to discover and disseminate knowledge in order to serve communities around the world.

We firmly believe in imparting education that teaches not only how to make a living but also, more importantly, how to live.

We are committed, foremost, to academic excellence and intellectual competence. Freedom of expression and inquiry, exchange of ideas, cultural activities, intensive classroom instruction, and numerous informal events of the Somaiya Vidyavihar community combine to ensure that each student receives a thorough education in tune with the global realities of a rapidly evolving world.

Somaiya Vidyavihar recognizes that education is attained, in part, through the activities of the students themselves. It strives to provide and maintain a corps of scholars, lecturers, and educators dedicated to:

• provide a well-rounded liberal arts education with a concentration in either the sciences, the humanities, or the professions
• provide service to the communities by increasing their ability to make practical application of knowledge
• develop conceptual thinking ability and nurture the inquiring mind of each student
• encourage optimum physical development and the safeguarding of health
• provide an important engine for research and economic development
• offer an array of master’s and doctoral programs in areas of importance to the social and economic development of the society and the communities
• develop a community of scholars with talent and expertise that will garner regional, national and international recognition
• continue to build a culture of global awareness through internationally focused teaching and learning activities and by cultivating collaborative relationships with international programs, higher education institutions and global communities and yet remain deeply entrenched in Indian cultural values and universal religious and spiritual philosophies