saraswati education society is an indian public charitable trust which was formed on 10 october 2003 by dr nandkumar y. tasgaonkar, who serves as its chairman. since its inception, the trust has established ten institutions at bhivpuri road station, karjat, raigad district, maharashtra, which provide professional courses in engineering, management and pharmacy. all the post graduate and degree courses are approved by aicte, ugc and dte, and affiliated to mumbai university. the diploma courses are recognised by the respective boards under the state government of maharashtra. there are more than eight thousand students and more than one thousand teaching and non-teaching staff.