The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (CU), is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate colleges and 16 institutes in Kolkata and nearby areas. It was established on 24 January 1857 and is the oldest multidisciplinary university of Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asian Region. Today, the university's jurisdiction is limited to a few districts of West Bengal, but at the time of its establishment it had a catchment area ranging from Kabul to Myanmar. It is accredited as an "A" grade university by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in Asia. It has been rated (A) by the Indian National Assessment and Accreditation Council. Students and alumni call themselves "Caledonians" in the name of the college festival, "Caledonia". The Scottish Church College has been embellished as GRADE-I Heritage Building on 8th November, 2023.
Maulana Azad College is a public institute of liberal arts, commerce and science in India, located in central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The college is fully government-administered. It is located near the junction of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and S. N. Banerjee Road, popularly called "Lotus crossing".
The University of North Bengal is a public state university in the North Bengal region of West Bengal, India. Its main campus is located in Raja Rammohanpur, Siliguri, Darjeeling district, in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its second campus is located in Danguajhar, Jalpaiguri in Jalpaiguri district and the third campus is located in Salt Lake, Kolkata. The university was established in 1962 by the Government of West Bengal. North Bengal University offers degrees in undergraduate, post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral programmes. It is accredited by NAAC with B++ grade.
Suri Vidyasagar College, established in 1942, is a government affiliated college located at Suri in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. It is affiliated to University of Burdwan and teaches arts, science and commerce.
Tarun Majumdar was an Indian film director, documentary filmmaker, author, illustrator and screenwriter who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. He received five National Awards, seven BFJA Awards, five Filmfare Awards and an Anandalok Award. In 1990, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award. He is recognized as one of the greatest influential filmmakers of India. His few movies were restored and digitized by the National Film Archive of India, along with his Contemporaries Arabinda Mukhopadhyay, Goutam Ghose. He is Legendary filmmaker for Ganadevata in 1978, Nimantran in 1971,Palatak in 1963.
Surendranath College is an undergraduate college affiliated to the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 1884 by the nationalist leader and scholar Surendranath Banerjee. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate level courses in various arts, commerce and science subjects.
Bishnu Dey was a leading Bengali poet, writer, essayist, academician, art appreciator, and connoisseur in the era of modernism and post-modernism.
Bangabasi College is a Kolkata-based liberal arts, commerce and sciences college. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the University of Calcutta. It was founded by Girish Chandra Bose, an educationist, social reformer and agriculturist, in 1887. It was the first nationalist college. It played a major role in the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 and the self-sacrifice of Shri Jatindranath Das, an undergraduate student of the college. The college celebrated its 125th anniversary from November 2011 to October 2012. It has been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India (NAAC) with "B++" certificate.
Gokhale Memorial Girls' College is a women's college in Kolkata, established in 1938. The college offers undergraduate degrees and is affiliated with the University of Calcutta. The name commemorates Gopal Krishna Gokhale, one of the founding social and political figures of the Indian Independence Movement. It is often regarded as one of the best colleges in Kolkata and among the top 5 girls colleges in Kolkata.
Bijoy Krishna Girls' College is a women's college in Howrah, India. The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and is affiliated to University of Calcutta. It is the sole girls' college in Howrah district. Formerly it was Howrah Girls' College. Presently, this college has 27 undergraduate along with 5 postgraduate departments.
City College is a composite state government–aided public college, affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It offers undergraduate-level courses in various arts, commerce and science subjects. The college is very popular for undergraduate study in the neighbourhood of Kolkata.
Krishnagar Government College, established in 1846, is the oldest college in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It offers undergraduate courses in arts and sciences and also some postgraduate courses. At first, the college was under the affiliation of University of Calcutta. Presently, it is affiliated to University of Kalyani (KU), National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and University Grant Commission (UGC).
Siliguri College, established on 8 October 1950, is the oldest college in Siliguri, in the Indian state of West Bengal.The college was earlier affiliated to the University of Calcutta till 1962 but later got changed to the University of North Bengal.It is now affiliated and accredited to University of North Bengal.The college offers Undergraduate courses in Arts and Sciences and also offers Postgraduate courses in Bengali and Geography .It offers admissions to students based on their merit in academics.Siliguri College also offers schemes like NSS and NCC for the benefit of students.The campus is located in Darjeeling district of West Bengal.
Sree Chaitanya College is a college in Habra in the state of West Bengal. It offers Undergraduate and Post Graduate courses arts and sciences. It is affiliated to West Bengal State University.
New Alipore College, established in 1963, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated with the University of Calcutta. The college campus is free from posters and plastic. The college is the seat of higher studies in the region. The college has been visited by a range of people from historians to poets, and journalists to educationists, like John Thieme (UK), Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (NZ), Ranabir Chakravorty (JNU), Alessandro Vescovi, Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy), Subodh Sarkar, Binayak Bandyopadhya, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Anjum Katyal, Sharmila Ray, Snehasis Sur, Gopali Banerjee, Gopal Chandra Mishra, Prof. Malashri Lal, Prof. Bashabi Fraser, noted poet Keki N Daruwalla, Nalini Bera, Ashwini Kumar, Basudhara Roy, Bill Ashcroft( online), Paul Sharrad( Australia), Ashok Sengupta, Zinia Mitra, Bratya Basu( MIC, Education), Amiya Kr Panda, Madhumita Manna ( ADPI) and Dalit activist and author Manohar Mouli Biswas. The college has MoUs with many academic institutions. It has created an ecosystem for continuous research and innovation. The college has a dedicated research laboratory; very rare in a college. Cultural competence building among the stakeholders is one of the importation features of the college.
Women's College, established in 1937, is an undergraduate and postgraduate women's college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated by the University of Calcutta.
Murshidabad University is a public state university in Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal. The university was established in 2021 by the West Bengal government under The Murshidabad University Act, 2018.
Vivekananda College is a state government-aided public college, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, located in southwest Kolkata, close to the Thakurpukur metro station. The college offers both post-graduate and under-graduate courses in a number of subjects of science, arts and commerce. Founded in 1950 as Barisha College, it was established under the dispersal scheme of the state government to reduce the pressure of students from the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
