Established in June 1957, Mudhoji College is one of the earliest and premier institutes catering quality oriented higher education to rural youth. The time when the college was started was very crucial. There were no opportunities of higher education in rural areas. The students in this region had to go to Pune for higher studies. That was difficult and costly for people from agrarian background. For girl students the situation was worse. They had to leave education because of the lack of facilities. Shrimant Malojiraje, after realizing the needs decided to start a college. He succeeded in attracting and maintaining Faculty from metropolitan cities like Pune. He voluntary provided his palace to engage classes and to run the administrative work. He also provided strong financial support for almost everything in the college. The College was first affiliated to the then Poona University. After the foundation of Shivaji University, Kolhapur in 1960, the affiliation was transferred.
As the number of students went on increasing, it was difficult to run the college in the palace. In 1958, the college was shifted to its present location at the ‘Harinarayan Tekadi’ at the west of the city. Shrimant Malojiraje generously donated 28.5 acres of his personal land to the college. The foundation stone was laid by the auspicious hands of late Shri. Yashwantrao Chavan, the Chief Minister of Mumbai Province. Initially, the building had ground plus first floor. In the course of time additional floor and separate buildings were constructed through various funds.
Apart from the initial Arts and Commerce courses, Science and PG in Languages were added in 1980s.With the arrival of new trends in higher education, the college stated self funded, skill based and job oriented professional courses like BBA, BCA, BCS and PGDCA. Infrastructural facilities were also added every year to merge the large number of students and the changing needs of time. At present the college has a large building with 32 classrooms, 19 laboratories, 04 multipurpose halls, a spacious library and 04 lanes 800 meter running track. The college has made its mark in students support activities like NSS, NCC, Cultural, Sports, Competitive examination centre, Placement cell, elocution, essay, debates, etc. It has given scope to the use of ICT in academic and administrative levels. The college finds good place in academic results also. It has full fledged unit of junior college. Royal and visionary management, reputed Principals, highly educated Faculty, fully dedicated Staff and disciplined, meritorious students are some of our major strengths.
Along with Shrimant Malojiraje and Shrimant Shivajiraje this college is also associated with the name of the great orator from Maharashtra, Principal Shivajirao Bhosale.