University of Calcutta

The Court of Directors of the East India Company sent a despatch in July, 1854 to the Governor-General of  India in Council, suggesting the establishment of the Universities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.In pursuance of that despatch, the University of Calcutta was founded on JANUARY 24, 1857. The University adopted in the first instance, the pattern of the University of London and gradually introduced modifications in its constitution.The idea of establishing a university in Calcutta was first mooted by the Council of Education in 1845 which suggested that in view of the ‘advanced state of education’ in Bengal, it was advisable to have a full-fledged university empowered to grant degrees to deserving students.The University of Calcutta was established by an Act of the Legislative Council (Act No II of 1857) of the then British India.

Library
The Manuscript Section was in existence right from the inception of the University. In 1990, the Manuscript Library became a full-fledged unit of the University of Calcutta under the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic). The Library has a collection of more than 42,000 manuscripts including quite a few on palm leaves, including 20,000 in Sanskrit, 12,000 in Tibetan and Bengali and also several Persian and Arabic manuscripts.

Faculty

• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Commerce, Social Welfare & Business Management
• Faculty of Education, Journalism and Library Science
• Faculty of Engineering & Technology
• Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Home Science
• The Faculty of Law
• The Faculty of Science

Courses Offered

• MSc
• Pd.D.
• M.A.
• M.Phil
• M.A.
• B.Ed
• B.Tech
• M.Tech

Institutes

• Bose Institute, Calcutta
• Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
• Centre for Studies in Social Sciences
• Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
• Indian Institute of Astrophysics
• Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management
• Institute of Development Studies
• Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies
• Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences
• Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
• S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

Website Details: http://www.caluniv.ac.in/