Ashutosh College

Late Sir Asutosh Mookhrjee founded the college on The 17th July 1916. Originally named South Suburban College, it was housed in a rented building at 26, Lansdowne Road.It had 288 students on the rolls. The college was later shifted to Bijni House at 157, Russa Road. The institute was upgraded to Degree College in 1918-19. Following the sad demise of Sir Asutosh on May 24, 1924, the college was renamed as Asutosh College under the presidentship of his son Dr.Shyamaprasad Mookherjee. In 1935 the college was shifted to its own palatial building at 9, Russa Road. (Now 92, S.P. Mookherjee Road). The renowned mathematician Sir. Asutosh Mukherjee with a deep dream did establish this college. Asutosh College is affiliated under University of Calcutta. The college has a rich heritage that contributes to its own culture. The College was built up in the year 1916 under the leadership of Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, the famous mathematician, educationist and the then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. The College was then known as South Suburban College and was housed at a rented premise.

The Asutosh College shifted to its current location in 1935. The present college building has a premise of forty thousand square feet and more than fifty classrooms which can contain about 4000 students. Twenty-seven subjects are taught as Honors/Major at the Undergraduate level.
In the year 2002, a post graduation course in Environmental Science was introduced. All the departments have their own libraries and well-organized laboratories for Science departments.
New College Building (Main)

92, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Road.
Kolkata.
West Bengal.
India.

Office 91 (033) 2455 4504, 2454 2371

Fax 91 (033) 2486 3006

Email : mail@asutoshcollege.in
asutosh.college@yahoo.in

http://www.asutoshcollege.in

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