The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in management.

It was named after the then-governor of Bombay, Lord Sydenham of Combe,[2] K.S.

The economist Percy Anstey was appointed Principal in 1914, a position he held until his death in 1920.

It was only in 1941, twenty-eight years after the establishment of Sydenham College, that any other institute started offering courses in the subject.

On the college's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988, the Indian Post Office issued a commemorative stamp.