Colleges in West Bengal

The British East India Company established the Indian Medical Service (IMS) in the year 1764 to look after Europeans in British India. On 9 May, 1822 the British Government laid down a plan to fill the position of native doctors in the civil and military establishments of the Presidency of Bengal. For the said purpose and imparting the medical teaching in local language , on 21st June, 1822 they founded “The Native Medical Institution “. In 1833 William Bentinck committee recommended a requir...

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Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER), which is located in Kolkata (West Bengal), was started as a hospital in 1957. In 2004, it was converted into a medical training institute as well. It is managed and run jointly by the Government of India and State Government of West Bengal. The educational institution is approved by the Medical Council of India (MCI), Government of India. Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research was affiliated to University of Ca...

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The first attempt for the introduction of a proper medical training was undertaken by Lord William Bentinck. As a fruit of his effort and long persuasion, government order was passed to set up a medical college in Calcutta which is known as Calcutta Medical College. As the resolution was passed on 28th January, 1835, this day is observed as the Foundation Day of the College. What we see at the premises of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, did not exist during the early period of its ince...

Triveni Devi Bhalotia College, Raniganj was established in 1957 has been now the second biggest college of the state imparting higher education in twenty honors courses including Computer Science and one vocational course in Sericulture and the general courses almost in all subject of Arts, Science and Commerce streams. The college is government sponsored and is affiliated to University of Burdwan. The college has well educated and competent faculty members. Triveni Debi Bhalotia College Rani...

The Maulana Azad College under the University of Calcutta is a community of students that encourages the quest for a deeper understanding of the human experience and fosters a personal commitment to lifelong learning, intellectual growth, and the enduring values of the liberal arts.The College is dedicated to helping students develop analytical and communication skills, creative abilities, and a sense of civic responsibility needed in an increasingly complex society.

Bankura Sammilani Medical College, which is located in Bankura (West Bengal), is one of the oldest medical colleges in India. It was started in 1956 by Bankura Sammilani Trust. In 1961, the college was taken over by the Government of West Bengal. The college is affiliated to University of Calcutta and approved by the Medical Council of India (MCI), Government of India, New Delhi. Bankura Sammilani Medical College admits students to courses in medical sciences, which are offered at the undergr...

Salesian College is a Government recognized minority educational institution of the Catholic Church, run by Salesians of Don Bosco, Kolkata Province where over 1400 students do their regular BA, BCom & BSc studies under the North Bengal University.

Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology (GKCIET), Malda, West Bengal was established in 2010 by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India in the memory of Sri Ghani Khan Choudhury who had contributed immensely to societal development of the region. The Institute is located at Malda, West Bengal with the bordering districts of Bihar, Jharkhand and North Eastern states.

MUC Women's College is a Government Sponsored college affiliated to the University of Burdwan. It is the first college to be accredited under the University of Burdwan, having received a B++ rating from NAAC. M.U.C. Women's College founded on 28 July 1955 even prior to the establishment of the University of Burdwan to which the college is at present affiliated.

Raiganj College (University College) is one of the biggest colleges in the Northern part of West Bengal. Established in 1948, the college has been taken over by North Bengal University in 1968, and since then it has become a University College and is been directly managed by the University of North Bengal.

Darjeeling Government College as it stands today since 5th August, 1948, has traversed a long way in serving the community. Darjeeling is very fortunate to have a government college of this stature and potentiality in this district town. The college is situated at the foot-hills of the eastern sub-Himalayan region at an altitude of 2134 meters. It stands on the Leblong Cart Road near the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park and the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. At the place where the...

Institute of Science & Technology is a self financing college, sponsored by Gopsai Avinandan Sangha has been started in the year 2005 with a noble aim of imparting technical education to the rural masses in and around West Bengal. The institution enables them to be placed as the best professionals in industries and make them enter into high level programmes with competence and confidence.

Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan, which was established in 1964 and which began functioning with a few teachers and around a 100 students has with the passage of 39 years developed into an institution with 42 full-time teachers, 40 administrative staff and 2696 students. Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya is a general degree college in Burdwan, in the Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to University of Burdwan.

By miracle of Destiny, the Independence, formation of East Pakisthan and hence partition of Bengal causes of huge Hindu population from the then east business and profession, the Hindus left the then East Pakistan and hailed to India to get Balurghat being a border town, the growth of population rose from five thousand of fifty thousand in the year of independence. As a result along with manifold economic problems, education figured most prominently.

Haldia Institute of Technology established in the year 1995-96 is the first privately initiated (with Govt. aid) degree Engineering College in this State. It has emerged as the biggest private Engineering College in Eastern India. The Institute is accredited by the AICTE, Dept. of Science and Technology, UGC etc. The collage offers Bachelor of Technology, Master of Technology, and Master of Business Administration and also offers Master of Computer Application course.

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The National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (formerly Regional Engineering College, Durgapur), was established by an Act of Parliament in 1960 as one of the eight such colleges aimed to function as a pace setter for engineering education in the country and to foster national integration.It is a fully-funded premier Technological Institution of the Government of India and is administered by an autonomous Board of Governors. The Institute is a University which awards B.Tech., M.C.A., M.Sc., ...

Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur was set up under the aegis of SKS Educational and Social Trust in 2001. The college offers a multitude of under graduate and post graduate degree courses in different branches of engineering and management.