A.E. Kalsekar Degree College was started in the year 2001 by Daar-ul-Rehmat Trust at Kausa with the faculty of Arts and Commerce. The faculty of Science was introduced in 2004-05. The college is recognized by the Government of Maharashtra as a religious and linguistic minority institution. It is permanently affiliated to University of Mumbai. The College has a beautiful campus with spacious building and state of the art infrastructure. It is well known for quality education, excellent academic results, and social commitments.
There was no College in the predominantly Minority Population of Kausa-Mumbra. Students of this area faced difficulties in getting admission to the colleges which were mostly situated in the Thane-Mumbai region. Moreover, they had to face painful commuting by the overcrowded trains. Many female students had to drop out of college due to the lack of facilities for higher education in the locality.