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2 institutes and centers in west bengal are affiliated with the university 43 44 45 some of the affiliated colleges include 46 st xavier s college kolkata an autonomous college affiliated to the university of calcutta not to be confused with st xavier s university kolkata asutosh college bangabasi college bethune college city college kolkata dinabandhu andrews college goenka college of commerce and business administration gurudas college heramba chandra college jogamaya devi college lady brabourne college maharaja manindra chandra college maulana azad college sammilani mahavidyalaya scottish church college seth anandaram jaipuria college surendranath college vidyasagar college faculties departments and centers edit the university has 60 departments organized into seven faculties arts commerce social welfare and business management education journalism and library science engineering and technology fine arts music and home science law and science and an agriculture institute with six departments 45 to provide agricultural education and research the institute of agricultural science was established under the university of calcutta it was founded by pabitra kumar sen who was the khaira professor of agriculture another endowment chair in the early 1950s initial efforts began as early as 1913 but the first institute was set up only in 1939 at barrackpore a city near kolkata by the university following the establishment of the imperial council of agricultural research now known as the indian council of agricultural research in 1926 47 although it was shut down in 1941 due to world war ii then in 1954 a postgraduate department in agriculture was started in ballygunge science college by the university with agricultural botany as the only subject two years later a veterinary science institute was included and the department was upgraded into a faculty called agriculture and veterinary science in 2002 university decided to reopen undergraduate agriculture courses in the agricultural experiment farm campus at baruipur a city south of calcutta in the same year the department was restructured as a separate institute of agricultural science 48 the faculty of arts consists of 23 departments commerce consists of three departments education journalism and library science consist of three departments engineering and technology consist of eight departments science has 22 departments and home science offers courses on subjects such as food and nutrition human development and home science 45 the faculty of law was established in january 1909 as the university college of law it was granted status as the university s department of law in february 1996 this campus is popularly known as hazra law college the faculty has many luminaries associated with it including rajendra prasad rashbehari ghose and chittaranjan das 49 45 in 2026 the university of calcutta established a research centre dedicated to the study of chaitanya mahaprabhu in collaboration with the bhaktivedanta research center the centre was established to support academic study and research concerning chaitanya s life philosophy and vaishnava tradition 50 the centre offers certificate and diploma courses on the life and works of chaitanya mahaprabhu as well as opportunities for research 50 centers at university of calcutta a k choudhury school of information technology clinical psychology centre of university of calcutta women s studies research centre centre for urban economic studies s k mitra centre for space environment university science instrumentation centre usic cpepa ugc center for electrophysiology neuro imaging studies including mathematical modeling centre for translation and literary geography ctlg gandhian studies centre peace studies research centre centre for testing and training for providing technical back up to the beneficiaries for agricultural and horticultural development intellectual property rights ipr cell centre for research in nanoscience and nanotechnology centre for social sciences and humanities centre for south and southeast asian studies centre for studies in book publishing centre for millimeter wave semiconductor devices systems centre for pakistan and west asian studies nehru studies centre centre for the study of social exclusion and inclusive policy institute of foreign policy studies centre for pollination studies university of calcutta calcutta stock exchange centre of excellence in financial markets cucse cefm centre for horticultural studies academics edit admission edit for undergraduate courses arts ba commerce b com and science bsc streams except engineering courses one can apply directly for multiple courses based on their higher secondary school certificate examination or any equivalent exam results students are shortlisted according to their marks and the number of places available for some departments entrance exams may take place at the sole discretion of the head of the department anyone can apply within five years of passing the higher secondary examination 51 for engineering courses admission is based on the west bengal joint entrance examination wbjee rankings 52 53 meanwhile for postgraduate courses and doctoral degree courses one has to take an entrance exam or written test given by the university or any national level exam related to the subject held by the ugc a merit list is prepared on the basis of the exam results 54 55 56 research edit notable scientists from the university of calcutta seated l to r meghnad saha jagadish chandra bose jnan chandra ghosh standing l to r snehamoy dutt satyendranath bose debendra mohan bose nr sen jnanendra nath mukherjee n c nag undergraduates may enroll for a three or four year program in engineering students choose a major when they enter the university and cannot change it unless they opt later for the university s professional or self financed postgraduate programs science and business disciplines are in high demand largely in anticipation of better employment prospects most programs are organized on an annual basis though some programs are semester dependent most departments offer master s programs of a year or a few years duration research is conducted in specialized institutes as well as individual departments many of which have doctoral programs 45 the university of calcutta has the largest research center which started from post centenary golden jubilee celebrations of the university of calcutta january 17 2006 this is the center for research in nanoscience and nanotechnology crnn on the technology campus of cu at salt lake west bengal 57 the university has 18 research centers 710 teachers 3000 non teaching staff and 11 000 postgraduate students 58 university central library viewed from college square libraries edit the central library at the asutosh siksha prangan was started around the 1870s 23 apart from 39 departmental libraries it has a central library two campus libraries and two libraries at the advanced centers spread across the seven campuses students at affiliated colleges can also access the central library the university library has over one million books and more than 200 000 bound journals proceedings manuscripts patents and other valuable collections 30 59 the university launched a modern institutional repository is a digital platform that makes the university s research freely available online aligning with the open access movement in academia launched in april 2020 enhancing global access to its research 60 it seems likely that this benefits the global scholarly community by providing free access to previously paywalled content research suggests increased visibility citations and collaboration opportunities for researchers worldwide 61 publishing edit see also the calcutta review the university has its own publishing house called university press and publications along with a book depot which was established in the 20th century it publishes textbooks treatises journals and confidential papers for all the examinations conducted by the university it also publishes the journal the calcutta review which is one of the oldest asian university journals the calcutta review was established by sir john kaye in may 1844 it has been issued biannually since 1913 62 63 64 they also have an associated journal with sage publishing arthaniti journal of economic theory and practice wd 65 rankings edit university and college rankings general international arwu 2024 66 901 1000 qs world 2025 67 751 760 qs asia 2024 68 187 times world 2024 69 1001 1200 times asia 2024 70 351 400 times emerging 2022 71 401 500 general india nirf overall 2024 72 26 nirf universities 2024 73 18 internationally the university of calcutta was ranked 751 760 in the qs world university rankings of 2023 67 and 187 in asia 68 it was ranked 1001 1200 in the world by the times higher education world university rankings of 2024 69 351 400 in asia in 2024 74 and in the 401 500 band among emerging economies in 2022 71 it was ranked 901 1000 in the academic ranking of world universities of 2024 66 in india the university of calcutta was ranked 26th overall by the national institutional ranking framework nirf in 2024 and 18th among universities 73 72 accreditation and recognition edit in 2001 the university of calcutta was awarded five star status in the first cycle of the university s accreditation by the national assessment and accreditation council naac 75 in 2009 and 2017 naac awarded its highest grade of a to the university of calcutta in the second and third cycle of the university s accreditation 21 the ugc recognized the university of calcutta as a university with potential for excellence on 8 december 2005 76 77 it was also awarded the status of centre with potential for excellence in particular area in electro physiological and neuro imaging studies including mathematical modeling 78 79 the manuscript library at the university has also been designated as a manuscript conservation centre under the national mission for manuscripts which was established in 2003 80 81 the university has the highest number of students who have cleared the doctoral entrance eligibility exam known as national eligibility test in natural science and arts to become eligible to pursue research with a full scholarship awarded by the government of india 82 better source needed the university is a member of the united nations academic impact initiative 83 student life edit the university has a ground and tent in maidan where various sports are played 84 inter college tournaments in sports like football archery basketball and hockey are also organised 85 the university rowing club started in the year 1983 at rabindra sarobar 86 87 the calcutta university students union organises social and cultural activities occasionally which include blood donation camps environmental awareness programmes relief fund collection teachers day celebrations and saraswati puja among others 88 89 most of the affiliated undergraduate colleges located in the city have their own student hostels the university has 17 hostels of which eight two for undergraduates and six for postgraduates are for women a total of 13 hostels are for paying guest students located across the city 90 university song edit in 1938 the then vice chancellor syama prasad mookerjee asked rabindranath tagore to compose a university song for the university rabindranath composed two songs instead of one cholo jai cholo jai and subho karmapathe dharo nirvayo gaan in english let s go let s go and take up fearless song on the path of good deeds respectively the former song was adopted and sung by parading students on the university s foundation day on 24 january 1937 in the post centenary golden jubilee year of the university the latter was adopted as the new university song 91 92 notable alumni and faculties edit main articles list of university of calcutta people and list of vice chancellors of the university of calcutta the university has produced many scientists engineers world leaders nobel laureates and teachers as the oldest university of bengal and india it attracts students from diverse walks of life nobel laureates who either studied or worked there include rabindranath tagore chandrasekhara venkata raman ronald ross 93 amartya sen and abhijit banerjee 94 the academy award winning director satyajit ray was an alumnus of the university as was the composer of the national song of india bankim chandra chattopadhyay as was padma shri award winning director tarun majumdar some of the industrialists who studied at the university include sir rajen mookerjee rama prasad goenka lakshmi mittal and aditya birla notable scientists medical doctors and mathematicians associated with the university include jagadish chandra bose prafulla chandra ray meghnad saha anil kumar gain satyendra nath bose subir kumar ghosh ashoke sen sanghamitra bandyopadhyay c r rao asima chatterjee and ujjwal maulik 95 96 97 fatima jinnah one of the leading founders of pakistan studied dentistry at the university a nationalist leader and former president of the indian national congress co founder of the indian national army and head of state of the provisional government of free india netaji subhas chandra bose also spent some time at the university other presidents of the indian national congress include womesh chandra bonnerjee surendranath banerjee anandamohan bose romesh chunder dutt bhupendra nath bose and madan mohan malaviya malaviya was also the founder of the banaras hindu university among the presidents of india associated with this university are rajendra prasad who studied there and sarvapalli radhakrishnan who taught there and pranab mukherjee who both studied and taught at affiliated colleges of the university the former vice president of india mohammad hamid ansari studied there as did a former deputy prime minister of india jagjivan ram 95 many governors of indian states studied at the university including the first indian governors of bihar and odisha lord satyendra prasanna sinha 1st baron sinha of raipur chandeshwar prasad narayan singh governor of the punjab and uttar pradesh and banwari lal joshi the former governor of delhi meghalaya uttar pradesh and the current governor of uttarakhand the former rulers of the indian princely state of coochbehar and of saraikela were also alumni of this university as were colonial era prime ministers albion rajkumar banerjee of kashmir and a k fazlul huq of undivided bengal 95 among its former students are eight chief ministers of west bengal prafulla chandra ghosh bidhan chandra ray prafulla chandra sen ajoy mukherjee siddhartha shankar ray jyoti basu buddhadeb bhattacharya and mamata banerjee three chief ministers each of assam gopinath bordoloi bishnuram medhi and golap borbora chief ministers of bihar krishna sinha binodanand jha and ram sundar das two chief ministers of meghalaya b b lyngdoh and s c marak and two chief ministers of madhya pradesh ravishanka...