About University Of Calcutta
University of Calcutta (CU), Kolkata was established on 24 January 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of British India, making it the first multidisciplinary university and the third-oldest university in India (after Madras and Bombay, all chartered in 1857). The university is recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under Section 12(B) of the UGC Act, 1956. CU was modelled on the University of London system and was the first university in South Asia to be granted Five-Star status by NAAC and later A++ in subsequent cycles. The university has multiple campuses spread across Kolkata — College Street (the heritage main campus), Ballygunge Science College, Rajabazar Science College, Alipore, Salt Lake, Hazra and the Technology Campus at Salt Lake.
University of Calcutta has over 150 affiliated colleges and is structured into eight faculties — Arts, Commerce, Science, Engineering & Technology, Education, Journalism & Library Sciences, Fine Arts/Music/Home Sciences, and Law. Postgraduate departments offer MA in Bengali, English, Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Linguistics, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Ancient Indian History, Modern History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology, Education, Journalism, Geography; MSc in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Biotech, Microbiology, Computer Science, Geology, Environmental Sciences, Botany, Zoology, Physiology, Genetics; M.Tech, M.Pharm, MBA, MCA, LLM, M.Com, MFA, MMus and PhD. Admissions for UG are via the West Bengal Common Entrance Test (CET-2024 / Common UG admission portal) plus college-level merit; for PG via the university's own entrance tests; for engineering via WBJEE.
University of Calcutta is NAAC A++ accredited and has produced more Nobel Laureates and national leaders than any other Indian university — including Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Literature 1913), Sir C. V. Raman (Nobel Physics 1930), Sir Ronald Ross (Nobel Medicine 1902), Amartya Sen (Nobel Economics 1998), Abhijit Banerjee (Nobel Economics 2019), Mother Teresa (Nobel Peace 1979 — alumna of Loreto), Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Meghnad Saha, Satyendra Nath Bose, Subhas Chandra Bose, Sister Nivedita, Sri Aurobindo, Jagdish Bhagwati, Pranab Mukherjee and Manmohan Singh. The university has a strong heritage in research across physics, chemistry, biology, social sciences and humanities, and is home to historic departments founded in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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