List of All Colleges in India

South Calcutta Girls' College takes pride in being the first college for women in south Kolkata. It was established in 1932 by eminent scholars and educationists like Peary mohan Chatterjee, after whom thye College library is named.South Calcutta Girls' College was initially a sister organization of the Beltala Girls' School and functioned as a morning college in the school premisestill mid- July, 1946. the College then shifted to 72 , Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700025, where it stands now.

Mahadevananda Mahavidyalaya, a co-educational day College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta (date of affiliation: 29.07.1968), was founded in Monirampore, under Barrackpore Sub-division of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, by Late Swami Jyotirmoyananda Giri Maharaj, in the sacred memory of his preceptor Late Swami Mahadevananda Giri Maharaj, on the auspicious day of Janmashtami, and the Independence Day, the 15th of August, 1968. The 15th of August being a holiday, the 16th of August ha...

Even before Swami Vivekananda started the Belur Math, he wanted to establish a Math for women with the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi as its centre. However, it was during the Holy Mother’s Birth Centenary in 1954, that Sri Sarada Math came into existence. In 1960, the Trustees of Sri Sarada Math founded the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Association with the object of propagating educational, cultural, charitable, medical and similar activities among women and children.

In the history of education in India, the achievements of the City College need to be remembered not only for its pioneering efforts in the field of modern education in the country but also for the fact that it is the embodiment of the liberal spirit of those master minds that enriched the nineteenth century renaissance in India.The City College of today had its modest beginning in the City School which was founded on January 6,1879 by the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.

Al Ameen Memorial Minority College, established in 2004, is an undergraduate co-educational college at Jogibattala, Baruipur, South 24 Parganas district. This is the first Muslim Minority General Degree College in West Bengal.