Smt. Ahalyabai Appanagouda Patil College of Arts & Commerce for women, Chikodi, Karnataka was founded in June 1986 as fifth institution by Chikodi Taluka Education Society, Chikodi, a premier and pioneer educational society founded by freedom fighters and luminaries of this area in 1919. To bring true the age-old slogan “Educating a man is educating an individual where as educating a women is educating a family, society and a nation”, the college was started by the society.
