Manjra Charitable Trust was established twenty eight years ago, when the leading citizens from the different fields of life of Latur area, namely: Late Hon. Shri. Vilasraoji Deshmukh (Founder and Ex. Chief Minister of Maharashtra & Ex. Union Minister of India), Late Adv. Shri. B. V. Kale (Secretary), Shri. Deelipraoji Deshmukh (President, & Ex. Minister of Maharashtra), Shri. Amitji Vilasrao Deshmukh (Executive Trustee & Ex. Minister of Maharashtra), Late Shri. Shivajirao Survase, Shri. Sayeed N. A. M. Yaseen, Shri. Shankarrao Chavan, and Shri Vijaymurti Shete. These honourable personalities with a great concern and a noble view established the college.
Smt. Sushiladevi Deshmukh Senior College, Latur (MS), is unique, and the finest single faculty college of the region, with 06.08 acres, pursuing excellence in education. Keeping in view the educational needs of the region, Manjra Charitable Trust, a local management committee, established Smt. Sushiladevi Deshmukh Senior College, Latur in the year 1991. It is a grant–in–aid institution formerly affiliated to Marathwada University, Aurangabad and is at present affiliated to S.R.T.M. University, Nanded since its formation. The U.G.C. has accorded status of 2(f) and 12 (b) to the college on 21st March 2005.
Out of 18 faculty of the college, 12 faculty members are Ph. D. holders and 08 faculty members are Recognized Research Guides. The college promotes and motivates the faculty for research and publication activities. The faculties of college have to their credit 227 different publications with an average of 40.86 per faculty during last four years. The college is also active in community and extension services through NSS unit. The college feels proud to mention here that the NSS unit has adopted crematorium (Smashanbhumi) of Khadgaon village in Jan.2018. The NSS unit of our college has very systeaiticlly decorated and cleaned it and it has been appreciated by the society and the electronic media has taken note of it. We also feel proud to mention here that our college has received THE BEST COLLEGE AWARD (URBAN) by the parent university in the Academic Year 2019-20. In the Academic Year 2021-22 the college principal, Dr. Ajay Patil has been awarded as THE BEST PRINCIPAL(URBAN).
To keep pace with over changing global scenario, the college is taking co-operation of the Management, UGC, University, Teachers, Students, Parents and all stakeholders involved in the process and imparting education with its mission statement EDUCATION FOR KNOWLEDGE,CHARACTER AND NATION BUILDING
The college volunteered itself to be assessed and accredited by NAAC, Bangalore and the Peer Teem assessed our college on 19-20 Jan, 2004 (Cycle-I) and accredited with B + grade and 78.00 C.G.P.A. score. The NAAC Peer Team, Bangalore assist our college on 04-05 Aug. 2017 (Cycle-II) and accredited with B++ grade and 2.80 C.G.P.A. score.
NAAC has been a guiding force for the present and future programmes, functions and activities. As per the suggestions of the Peer Team, the college has taken many measures to enhance the quality of higher education. In order to improve the academic quality of the institution, even in coming future, to know the strengths and weaknesses for future improvements, the Management of MCT has decided to go for reaccreditation in future.