Colleges in West Bengal

Durgapur Women’s College, instituted in 1980, has been established as a first degree college with the express aim of education of girl students living in the vicinity of the Steel City of Durgapur. The establishment of the college was taken up as a Project of the DNAA ( now Durgapur Municipal Corporation

In 1979 the Government of West Bengal established one Girl’s College in Suri , the Headquarter town of District of Bibhum with a view to impart education to younger girls .But in 1987 the college was converted into a co-educational Degree College. Birbhum Mahila Mahavidyalaya was renamed as Birbhum Mahavidyalaya. This college is situated at Baruipara,one of the oldest localities in Suri, in a beautiful open land with natural environment in the North-eastern part of Suri.

Purulia, in the State of West Bengal, is one of the most impoverished and downtrodden districts of India. Most students drop out of high school due to economic hardship and the literacy rate is extremely low. Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji, the founder of Ananda Marga, had a vision to elevate the educational status and improve the standard of living in the most backward areas of India through a comprehensive system of education. Initially, there was no higher educational institution in and around ...

Constant innovation is the watchword of this noble institution of pre-independence times. At Women's Christian College we strive to attain an outlook that is an ideal mix of tradition and modernity, discipline and freedom that is essential for the holistic development of our students.

Women's College, Calcutta was founded on 2nd July 1937, by a group of devoted scholars under the guidance of Dr. D. L. De with a view to advancing the cause of higher education among women. The college got affiliation to C.U. on 27th April, 1940. DR. D.L. De was the Principal and Secretary of the college till his death in March 1959.

The School of Information Technology has been started with the objective of promoting research and development, industrial consultancy, and teaching in the frontier areas of Information Technology. The School currently offers MTech, M.S. and Ph.D. programmes. The School also conducts the PGDIT (Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology) programme in the distance mode at Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, and Kharagpur to facilitate cross migration to the field of IT. Click here to goto School of Inf...

The educationists of Bengal, Dinabandhu Andrews College needs no introduction. With its humble beginning in the year 1956, it grew up gradually and systematically to meet the challenges that emerged from time to time in the horizon of advanced learning. The mission of Dinabandhu Andrews College is aimed at shaping tomorrow’s successful leaders in the field of Higher Education with sound technical, human and conceptual skills required at various levels of advancement of knowledge in a global p...

The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences was established under the WBNUJS Act, 1999 (West Bengal Act IX of 1999) adopted by the West Bengal Legislature in July, 1999. The University was notified under Clause (f) of Section 2 of the UGC Act, 1956 in August 2004 and has been granted permanent affiliation by the Bar Council of India in July 2005.

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics founded as the Institute of Nuclear Physics by Prof. Meghnad Saha, is one of the Pioneering Research Institute of India in fundamental Physics and allied disciplines. The institute has been pursuing a successful teaching and research-training programme since its formation in the early fifties. It offers a one-year Post- M. Sc course in Physics with specialisation in Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics and Plasma Physics.

Presidency University has a unique place in history. It was one of the first institutes of Western-type higher education in Asia. In 1817, a group of enlightened Indians and Englishmen set up the Hindoo College.This was taken over the British Government in 1855 as the College of the Bengal Presidency, and placed in 1857 under the newly founded Calcutta University.

Gurudas College (Govt. Sponsored), founded in 1956, is situated at Phoolbagan in East Calcutta. It is a Co-Educational college teaching both Pass and Honours courses at the undergraduate level, and it is affiliated to the University Of Calcutta. It also has a Higher Secondary Section with all the three streams of studies namely, Science, Arts and Commerce under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.

The Bidhannagar College, Government of West Bengal, had a humble beginning with 52 students on June 25, 1984 in a school building at 142 BF Block, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700064. But from its inception the College was modelled as a centre of academic excellence. Affiliated to the University of Calcutta as an under-graduate college, it has been admitting Honours students only.

Basanti Devi College as an institution of higher education.The College was founded on 5th august 1959.This is one of the earliest girl's college in Calcutta.The College named after the great Indian patriotic leader Desbandhu Chittaranjan Das's wife "Basanti Devi". Basanti Devi College Kolkata is a premier college offering undergraduate courses for decades. It's a girls' college affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

It was a heart-felt desire of the people of Jhalda locality to have an academic institution for higher studies, a college for the local students to study degree course at under-graduate level. The initiative of common people including some eminent citizens gathered momentum during mid-1970s. With the banning of Ananda Marga College by Government of India in 1975, the necessity was felt even more strongly.

With the establishment of Kandi Raj College in 1950 the long cherished dreams of the people of Kandi Sub division were finally fulfilled. With just 61 students, the college started its journey on 4th September, 1950, occupying only five rooms of Kandi Raj High School. At that time it was affiliated to Calcutta University. Today it has its own building complex and boasts of a student strength that is in excess of 2,000.

Bose Institute was set up in 1917 by Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858 - 1937), the founder of modern science in the Indian subcontinent. It is Asia's first modern research centre devoted to interdisciplinary research and bears a century old tradition of research excellence. As outlined below, the scientific contributions of Acharya J.C. Bose in both physical and biological sciences are colossal. Even the most eminent of scientists would find it hard to match his strides, spanning various disci...

Established in 1879, Bethune College is the first women's college in India. It is a Government College under the Directorate of Education, Government of West Bengal.The College was established in order to provide opportunities of college education to Kadambini Bose -a pupil of Bethune School-who had successfully completed the entrance examination of Calcutta University in 1878. The first classes of Bethune College were held at the premises of Bethune School. Kadambini Bose and Chandramukhi Bo...