Holistic, value-based education is where MMCOA stands apart, and five aspects carry it.
Marathwada MitraMandal started the College of Architecture in Pune in 1985, the first unaided institute under what was then the University of Pune, now Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Its aim was to train professionals who contribute positively to the built environment and support the trust's cause of "welfare of masses". Holistic, value-based education is the area where the institution is most distinctive, and the following aspects add to that distinctiveness: