Scottish Church College
Motto	Nec Tamen Consumebatur ("Burning, but yet not consumed")[1]
Established	1830: General Assembly's Institution 1843: Free Church Institution 1863: Duff College 1908: Scottish Churches College 1929: Scottish Church College
Type	Church of North India administered, government-aided and partly self funded undergraduate liberal arts and sciences college
Principal	Dr. John Abraham
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Campus	Urban
Recognition	National Assessment and Accreditation Council's Grade ‘A’ Institution; University Grants Commission’s ‘College with Potential for Excellence’
Affiliations	West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, University of Calcutta
Website	http://www.scottishchurch.ac.in/

The Scottish Church College is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in India. ^[2][3] It is affiliated with the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (for the Scottish Church Collegiate School), the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for the awarding of baccalaureate and post baccalaureate diplomas, and with the University of Calcutta for graduate and postgraduate degrees.

It is well-known for its beautiful campus, renowned faculty, robust intellectual milieu and its English Palladian architecture. Its students and alumni call themselves "Caledonians" in the name of the college festival, "Caledonia".

Contents 1 Founder and historical significance 2 Current status and ranking 3 Scottish Church College in popular culture 3.1 In fiction 3.2 In cinema 4 Notable alumni 4.1 Social reformers and religious leaders 4.2 Politicians and freedom fighters 4.3 Industry 4.4 Jurists 4.5 Medicine 4.6 Academics and vice chancellors 4.7 Performing arts, theater and cinema 4.8 Writers and poets 4.9 Journalists 4.10 Administrators 4.11 Music 4.12 Arts 4.13 Sports 5 References 6 Other sources 7 External links

[edit] Founder and historical significance

The inception of what is now known as the Scottish Church College is intertwined with the life of Dr. Alexander Duff, D. D. LLD. (1806-1878), the first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland, to India. Initially known as the General Assembly's Institution, it was founded on the 13th of July 1830.

Alexander Duff was born in Moulin, Perthshire, the very heart of Scotland, on 15 April 1806. From the country school, he passed on to the University of St Andrews, where, after getting his degree, he ended a brilliant career. Subsequently, he undertook his evangelical mission to India. After an adventurous voyage during which he was twice shipwrecked, he arrived in Calcutta on 27 May 1830.

Principals of General Assembly's Institution (1830-1908)
Rev. Alexander Duff 1830-34 Rev. W. S. Mackay & Rev. D. Ewart 1834-39 Rev. Alexander Duff 1840-43 Rev. James Ogilvie, 1845-71 Rev. William Hastie, 1878-84 Rev. W. Smith, 1884-89 Rev. John Morrison 1889-1904 Rev. A. B. Wann, 1904-1908
Principal of Free Church Institution (1843-63)
Rev. Alexander Duff 1843-63
Principals of Duff College (1863-1908)
Rev. W. C. Fyffe, 1863-80 Rev. James Robertson, 1881-83 Rev. John Hector, 1883-1902
Principals of Scottish Churches College (1908-1929)
Rev. A.B. Wann, 1908-09 Rev. John Lamb, 1909-11 Rev. Alexander Tomory, 1910-1911 Rev. Dr. James Watt, 1911-1928
Principals of Scottish Church College (1929-present)
Rev. Dr. W. S. Urquhart, 1928-37 Rev. Allen Cameron, 1937-44 Rev. John Kellas, 1944-54 Dr. H. J. Taylor, 1954-60 Dr. N. K. Mundle, 1960-70 Jyotsna Pyne, 1970 B. Das, 1970 - 1971 S. K. Mitra, 1971-75 K. D. Bhatt, 1973-75 S. K. Mukherjee, 1975-76 A. K. Sen, 1976-78 A. K. Kisku, 1978-81 Aparesh Bhattacharyya, 1981-1983 Kalyan Chandra Dutt, 1983-1995 Dr. Kalyan Kumar Mandi, 1996-2002 Dr. John Abraham, 2002 - present

Rev. Alexander Duff opened his institution in Feringhi Kamal Bose's house, located in upper Chitpore Road, near Jorasanko. In 1836 the institution was moved to Gorachand Bysack's house at Garanhatta. Mr. MacFarlon, the Chief-Magistrate of Calcutta, laid the foundation stone on 23 February 1837. Mr. John Gray, elected by Messrs. Burn & Co. and superintended by Captain John Thomson of the Honourable East India Company designed the building. The construction of the building was completed in 1839.

In the early 1800s, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland sent Reverend Alexander Duff, a young and dedicated missionary, to Kolkata to set up an English-medium institution. Though Bengalis had shown some interest in the spread of Western education from the beginning of the 19th century, both the local church and government officers were skeptical about the high-caste Bengali's response to the idea of an English-medium institution. Raja Ram Mohan Roy helped by organizing the venue and bringing in the first batch of students. He also assured the guardians that reading the Bible did not necessarily imply religious conversion. Although his ultimate aim was the spread of English education, Duff was aware that without a good command on one's native language, it was impossible to master a foreign language. Hence in his General Assembly's Institution (as later in his Free Church Institution), the teaching and learning of the Bengali language and literature was given high priority. Duff was keen on sports and had accumulated different kinds of sports-related equipment for use in his institution. When he introduced political economy as a subject in the curricula, the Church strongly criticized him.

In 1840, Duff returned to India. At the Disruption of 1843, Duff sided with the Free Church. He gave up the college buildings, with all their effects and with unabated courage, set to establish a new institution, which came to be known as the Free Church Institution. He had the support of Sir James Outram and Sir Henry Lawrence, and the encouragement of seeing a new band of converts, including several young men born of high caste. In 1844, governor-general Viscount Hardinge opened government appointments to all who had studied in institutions similar to Duff's institution. In the same year, Duff co-founded the Calcutta Review, of which he served as editor from 1845 to 1849. These two institutions founded by Duff, i.e., the General Assembly's Institution and the Free Church Institution would be merged later to form the Scottish Churches College. After the unification of the Church of Scotland in 1929, the institution would be known as Scottish Church College.

Along with Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the father of modern India, Dr. Duff played a significant role in supporting Lord Macaulay in drafting his famous Minute for the introduction of English education in India. Successive eminent missionary scholars from Scotland, viz. Dr. Ogilvie, Dr. Hastie,^[4] Dr. Macdonald, Dr. Stephen, Dr. Watt, Dr. Urquhart and others contributed to the spread of the liberal Western education. Along with other educational institutions like Serampore College, Hindu College, the Scottish Churches College played a pivotal role in ushering the spirit of intellectual enquiry and a general acceptance of the ideals of the European Enlightenment, among Bengalis, in what came to be regarded as the Young Bengal Movement and later, the Bengal Renaissance.

Duff's contemporaries included such luminaries as Reverend Mackay, Reverend Ewart and Reverend Thomas Smith. Till the early 20th century the norm was to bring teachers from Scotland (like William Spence Urquhart, Leslie Stephen, H.M. Percival, Ian Fairweather^[5] etc.) but eminent Indian scholars were also engaged as teachers by the college authorities. Scholars like Surendranath Banerjea, Kalicharan Bandyopadhyay, Jnan Chandra Ghosh, Gouri Shankar Dey, Adhar Chandra Mukhopadhyay Sushil Chandra Dutta, Mohimohan Basu, Sudhir Kumar Dasgupta, Nirmal Chandra Bhattacharya, Bholanath Mukhopadhyay and Kalidas Nag had all contributed hugely to enhance the academic standards of the college.

Dr. Duff played a leading part in founding the University of Calcutta in 1857, he was associated with the Agro-horticultural Society and the establishment of a medical college, the first in India. He also aimed at breaking down caste-barriers by founding several girls schools. The Scottish Church College played a pioneering role in women's education as well as co-education in the country. Female students comprise half the present roll strength of the college. With the added interest of the missionaries in educational work and social welfare, the college stands as a monument to Indo-Scottish co-operation. The aims and principles of the College are essentially those of its founder namely, the formation of character through education based on Christian teaching.

[edit] Current status and ranking

• Until 1953, the administrative control over the college was exercised by the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland. This was exercised by jointly by a local council consisting of representatives of the Church of Scotland and the United Church of Northern India. Later the Foreign Mission Committee of Church of Scotland relinquished its authority to the United Church of Northern India, and in 1970, the United Church of Northern India joined the Church of North India as a constituent body. This made the Church of North India the de facto and de jure successor (to the Church of Scotland) in running the administration of the college. As the college was founded on Christian (Protestant and Presbyterian) foundations, it derives its legal authority and status as a religious minority institution as defined by the scope of Article 30 of the Constitution of India.

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• On September 27, 1980, the Indian Postal Service released a commemorative stamp on the college recognizing its contribution towards the historical, cultural,artistic and scientific heritage of India and the entire Indian subcontinent.
• Since 2001, this college has been a member of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and is a participant in that organization's Asian University Leadership Program.^[6][7] This effort is expected to usher exchange programs with scholars and faculty members of participating educational institutions.
• In recognition of its robust academic milieu, it has been granted the National Assessment and Accreditation Council's "A" rating in 2004.^[8]
• In 2006, the college celebrated 175 years of existence.^[9]
• The University Grants Commission (India) has accepted the recommendations of the University of Calcutta to regard the college as a centre of excellence.^[10][11]
• Since 2004, the college has been publishing the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, an international refereed and annually published journal in the social sciences related sub-fields like liberalism, empiricism, Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, subaltern studies and postcolonialism.

[edit] Scottish Church College in popular culture

[edit] In fiction

• Satyajit Ray's fictional scientist-cum-investigator Professor Shanku started his career as a professor of physics at the Scottish Church College.
• Samaresh Majumdar's bestsellng novel Kalbela is a gripping story about Calcutta's culture, politics and society in the aftermath of the 1970s Naxalite movement. Samaresh Majumdar won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for Kalbela in 1984.^[12]

[edit] In cinema

• Kaalbela: Calcutta My Love, a 2009 Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghosh, based on events of the 1970s Naxalite movement, which affected the college.^[13]

[edit] Notable alumni

Since its inception, it has continuously produced alumni who have excelled or have been influential in various fields. The spirit of the Protestant work ethic, originally espoused by its founders and teachers have been verily inculcated in its students. To sum it, the following excerpt from the 2004 NAAC Report^[14] is very appropriate:

“

Scottish Church College, Kolkata is perhaps the only college of India which can boast of producing a large number of extra-ordinary personalities most of whom are not only famous in the country but also could earn international repute...The very impressive and a very long list of alumni of the college includes the names of Governors, Chief Ministers, Ministers, Vice-Chancellors of some eminent Universities of India, Jurists, Administrators, Ambassadors, Speakers, Educationists, Historians, Scholars, Doctors, Authors, Poets, Dramatists, Novelists, Political Leaders, Religious Leaders, Sports persons, Film personalities, Actors, Singers, Artists etc. etc.

”

[edit] Social reformers and religious leaders

• Swami Vivekananda, Hindu saint, proponent of Advaita Vedanta school of religious philosophy in the West and founder of the Ramakrishna Mission Order
• Rev. Lal Behari Dey, scholar, writer and theologian of the Free Church of Scotland
• Sitanath Tattwabhushan, philosopher and theologian of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj^[15]
• Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, convert and preacher of Anglicanism, Catholicism, and Brahmo Samaj
• Paramahansa Yogananda, Hindu mystic, Yogi and leading proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West
• His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Hindu author and teacher, Founder, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, leading proponent of Gaudiya Vaishnavism^[16][17][18]
• Swami Gambhirananda , president of the Ramakrishna Mission Order^[19]

[edit] Politicians and freedom fighters

• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, President of the Indian National Congress (1938-1939), co-founder of the Indian National Army and Head of State, Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind (1942-1945)
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, first democratically elected Prime Minister of Nepal^[20]
• Gopinath Bordoloi, prominent freedom fighter, first Chief Minister of Assam^[21]
• Prafulla Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
• Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, former Chief Minister of Meghalaya^[22]
• George Gilbert Swell, Member of Rajya Sabha, former challenger to the Office of the President of India in July, 1992^[23]
• Banwari Lal Joshi, former Lt. Governor of Delhi,^[24] Governor of Meghalaya^[25]
• Dr. Mohammed Mohsin, Honorary Chairman of the Nepalese National Assembly, member, Rastriya Prajatantra Party of Nepal^[26]
• His Royal Highness Raja Maung Shwe Prue Chowdhury, ex-King of the Bomang tribe, Chittagong Hill Tracts
• Ajit Kumar Panja, Former Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha and Ex-Minister of State for External Affairs^[27]

[edit] Industry

• Jagmohan Dalmiya, chief executive of M.L. Dalmia Construction Company ^[28].
• Mani Lal Bhaumik, scientist turned entrepreneur based in Beverly Hills, California; inventor of the excimer laser and author^[29][30]
• Dharam Bir 'Bill' Lall of Woodsland, entrepreneur, self-help and motivational speaker and author based in the UK^[31][32][33]
• Kashi Nath Memani, ex-chairman of Ernst & Young India and first Indian to be selected to the audit committee of the International Monetary Fund^[34]
• Mool Raj Vyas,ex-General Manager of J K Tyres Ltd., Kankroli, Udaipur, Rajasthan and ex-Senior Vice President of LML Limited Kanpur</ref>

[edit] Jurists

• Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, noted jurist and educationist,
• Honourable Justice (Shri) Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India^[35]
• Justice (Shri) Amarendra Nath Sen, former Judge, of the Supreme Court of India^[36]
• Justice (Shri) Ganendra Narayan Ray, former Judge, of the Supreme Court of India^[37]
• Honourable Justice (Shri) Anandamoy Bhattacharjee, Former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court^[38]
• Honourable Justice (Shri) Umesh Chandra Banerjee, Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and Member of the International Law Association; ^[39] also Founder-President of the Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad ^[40]

[edit] Medicine

• Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay, gynaecologist, the first physician in India (and second in the world) to perform in vitro fertilization

[edit] Academics and vice chancellors

• Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first female graduates of the British Empire, and the first head of an undergraduate college in South Asia (as principal of Bethune College, Calcutta)^[41]
• Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, first Indian vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
• Sir Brajendra Nath Seal, formerly vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan and later, the University of Mysore^[42]
• Tarak Nath Das, formerly professor at Columbia University
• Satischandra Ray, classical scholar and teacher^[43]
• Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, eminent linguist^[44]
• Biraja Sankar Guha, pioneering anthropologist, one of the first PhD recipients in anthropology in the world (Harvard University, 1924)^[45] and founder-director of the Anthropological Survey of India.^[46]
• Nirmal Kumar Bose, eminent anthropologist and freedom fighter^[47]
• Benoy Chandra Sen, Indologist^[48]
• Ramaprasad Chanda, anthropologist and archaeologist^[49]
• Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, formerly Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta
• Tapan Raychaudhuri, Ad-Hominem Professor of Indian History and Civilization and Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford
• Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, formerly Tagore Professor of Bengali literature, University of Delhi; also Director, National Library, Calcutta
• Asima Chatterjee, first Indian woman to earn a doctorate in science; formerly Khaira Professor of Chemistry, University of Calcutta. ^[50]
• Nirmalkumar Sidhanta, ex vice chancellor, University of Calcutta
• Roma Chaudhuri, ex vice chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University
• N. N. Saha, ex vice chancellor, University of Kalyani^[51]

[edit] Performing arts, theater and cinema

• Kshirode Prasad Vidyavinode, thespian
• Sisir Bhaduri, noted playwright^[52]
• Pankaj Mullick, Bollywood and Bengali cinema music director and composer
• Manna Dey, Bollywood film music exponent^[53][54]
• Mrinal Sen, internationally acclaimed art film director and cultural commentator^[55][56]
• Buddhadeb Dasgupta, renowned art cinema director and poet ^[57]
• Nabyendu Chatterjee, renowned art cinema director
• Soumitra Chatterjee, critically acclaimed actor
• Mithun Chakraborty, National Film Award winning Indian film actor and social activist.
• Ranjit Mallick, actor
• Diptendu Pramanick, Founder Secretary of the East India Motion Pictures Association
• Birendra Krishna Bhadra,a poet widely remembered in Bengal for his recital of Mahishashura Mardini
• Rudraprasad Sengupta, eminent theatre personality, director Nandikar theatre group and cultural critic^[58]
• Badal Sircar, dramatist^[59]
• Manoj Mitra, dramatist^[9][60]
• Madhav Sharma, Indian born comedian and actor based in the UK^[61]

[edit] Writers and poets

• Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America; winner of Newbery Medal (1928)
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, polymath, historian and encyclopedic commentator on culture, acclaimed Victorian scholar and honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire^[62]
• Manomohan Bose, nationalist poet, playwright and journalist^[63]
• Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet^[64]
• Sudhindranath Dutta, author and poet^[65][66]
• Birendra Krishna Bhadra,a poet widely remembered in Bengal for his recital of Mahishashura Mardini
• Parvati Prasad Baruwa, noted Assamese litterateur^[67]
• Premendra Mitra, novelist
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Bengali poet^[68]
• Rudraprasad Sengupta, eminent theatre personality, director Nandikar theatre group and cultural critic^[69]
• Badal Sircar, poet and dramatist^[70]
• Samaresh Majumdar, Bengali novelist
• Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, Bengali author and critic
• Bani Basu, Bengali author, postcolonial and feminist scholar, cultural critic^[71][72][73]
• Farrukh Ahmed, respected East Pakistani and later Bangladeshi poet, writer, activist of the Language Movement

[edit] Journalists

• Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, Bengali journalist, author, and critic
• Derek O'Brien, nationally acclaimed quiz-master and author^[74]

[edit] Administrators

• Binay Ranjan Sen, Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization
• Jagmohan Dalmiya, ex-President of Board of Control for Cricket in India and the first Indian to be the chairman of the International Cricket Council^[75]
• Shyamal Ghosh, ex-Chairman, Working Group on Internet Governance, International Telecommunication Union^[76]
• Kashi Nath Memani, ex-chairman of Ernst & Young India and first Indian to be selected to the audit committee of the International Monetary Fund^[77]
• Mool Raj Vyas, ex-General Manager of J K Tyres Ltd., Kankroli, Udaipur, Rajasthan and ex-Senior Vice President of LML Limited, Kanpur

[edit] Music

• Ajitkumar Chakravarty, scholar and teacher of literature, drama and music^[78]
• Suchitra Mitra, Rabindra Sangeet exponent
• Utpala Sen, Rabindra Sangeet exponent
• Pulak Bandopadhyay, Bengali lyricist and composer
• Arun Kumar Shaha, sitar performer^[79]
• Tanmoy Bose, internationally renowned tabla exponent^[80]

[edit] Arts

• Bivas Chaudhuri, artist of the abstract art form^[81][82]
• Bulbul Chowdhury, Bangladeshi performing artist, dancer and writer^[83]
• Ajmal Husain, Bangladeshi artist based in Paris^[84]
• Mustafa Monwar, Bangladeshi artist, media personality, critic and scholar^[85]

[edit] Sports

• Gourgopal Ghosh, football player for the Mohun Bagan Club and mathematician^[86]
• Dharma Bhakta Mathema, Nepalese bodybuilder , political activist and anti-royalist martyr^[87][88]
• Jagmohan Dalmiya, ex-President of Board of Control for Cricket in India and the first Indian to be the chairman of the International Cricket Council^[89]
• Surya Shekhar Ganguly, FIDE chess Grandmaster^[90][91] and national champion^[92]

[edit] References

[edit] Other sources

• Online archived articles from The Statesman, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Scotsman, etc.
• Other Internet resources (LexisNexis Academic Database, www.Indianpost.com and www.Banglapedia.org etc.)
• Scottish Church College Magazine. Volumes - 87,88 and 89 published in 1999,2000 and 2001.
• Ananda Bazar Patrika - Sunday edition May 2006.

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Stamp on the college
• Christianity in Bengal
• Christian Missionaries in Bengal

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Mitra Centre for Space Environment · Peace Studies Research Centre · Centre for Testing and Training for Providing Technical Back up to the Beneficiaries for Agricultural and Horticultural Development · University Science Instrumentation Centre · Centre for Horticultural Studies · Centre for Millimeter Wave Semiconductor Devices & Systems · Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies · 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 the Study of China and her Neighbourhood · Nehru Studies Centre Autonomous Undergraduate Colleges Ramakrishna Mission Residential College · Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir · St. Xavier's College, Calcutta Colleges classified as Centers with Potential for Excellence by University Grants Commission Loreto College, Kolkata · Presidency College, Kolkata · Scottish Church College, Calcutta · St. Xavier's College, Calcutta Colleges that earned grade A and above by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council Bethune College · Loreto College, Kolkata · Presidency College, Kolkata · Ramakrishna Mission Residential College · Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir · Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira · Scottish Church College, Calcutta · Serampore College · St. Xavier's College, Calcutta B.B.A. Degree Granting Colleges Ashutosh College · Deshbandhu College for Girls · Scottish Church College, Calcutta · St. Xavier's College, Calcutta · The Bhowanipore Education Society College B.Ed Degree Granting Colleges Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College · Bijoykrishna Girls’ College · Calcutta Girls’ B.T. College · David Hare Training College · Department of Education, University of Calcutta · Fakir Chand College · Institute of Education for Women · Loreto College, Kolkata · Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir · Ramakrishna Mission Training Institute for the teachers of the Visually Handicapped · Sarisa B.Ed College · Scottish Church College, Calcutta · Sri Sikshayatan College · St. Xavier's College, Calcutta · State Institute of Physical Education for Women · Uluberia College Self-Financed B.Ed Degree Granting Colleges Gangadharpur Sikshan Mandir · Jagadish Chandra Bose Sikshak Sikshan  · Raidighi B.Ed College · Sammilani Teachers’ Training College · Surendralal Das Teachers’ Training College Law Colleges Jogesh Chandra Law College · South Calcutta Law College · Surendranath Law College · University Law College, Calcutta Self-Financed Law Colleges Bikash Bharati Law College State Government Administered Undergraduate Colleges Bethune College · Lady Brabourne College · Maulana Azad College · Presidency College, Kolkata Self-Financed Undergraduate Colleges Sree Agrasain College · Taradevi Harakhchand Kankaria Jain College List of Undergraduate Colleges Acharya Girish Chandra Bose College · Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College · Anandamohan College · Ashutosh College · Azad Hind Fouz Smriti Mahavidyalaya · Bagnan College · Bangabasi College · Bangabasi Morning College · Bangabasi Evening College · Baruipur College · Basanti Devi College · Behala College · Bethune College · Bidhan Chandra College · Bijoykrishna Girls’ College · Budge Budge College · Calcutta Girls College · Charuchandra College · Chittaranjan College · City College, Calcutta · City College of Commerce and Business Administration · Deshbandhu College for Girls · Dinabandhu Andrews College, Garia · Dinabandhu Institution, Shibpur · Dr.Kanailal Bhattacharya College · Fakir Chand College · Gangadharpur Mahavidyamandir · Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration · Gokhale Memorial Girls' College · Gourmohan Sachin Mondal Mahavidyalaya · Gurudas College · Harimohan Ghosh College · Heramba Chandra College · Jaypur Panchanan Roy College · Jogamaya Devi College · Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College · Khudiram Bose Central College · Kidderpore College · Kishore Bharati Bhagini Nivedita (Co-ed) College · K. K. Das College  · Kultali Dr. B .R. Ambedkar College  · Lady Brabourne College · Lalbaba College · Loreto College, Kolkata · Magrahat College · Maharaja Manindra Chandra College · Maharaja Sris Chandra College · Maharani Kasiswari College · Maheshtala College · Maulana Azad College · Milli Al-Ameen College for Girls · Muralidhar Girls' College · Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya · Nabagram Hiralal Paul College · Narasinha Dutt College · Netaji Nagar College (Evening) · Netaji Nagar Day College · Netaji Nagar College for Women · New Alipore College · Patharpratima Mahavidyalaya · Prabhu Jagatbandhu College · Prafulla Chandra College · Presidency College, Kolkata · Puras-Kanpur Haridas Nandi Mahavidyalaya · Rabin Mukherjee College · Raidighi College · Raja Peary Mohan College · Ramakrishna Mission Residential College · Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira · Rammohan College · Rani Birla Girls' College · Ramsaday College · Sagar Mahavidyalaya · Saheed Anurup Chandra Mahavidyalaya · Sammilani Mahavidyalaya · Sanskrit College · Sarsuna College · Savitri Girls' College, Calcutta · Scottish Church College, Calcutta · Serampore Girls’ College · Serampore College · Seth Anandaram Jaipuria College · Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls' College · Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya · Sivnath Sastri College · Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya · South Calcutta Girls College · Sovarani Memorial College · Sri Sikshayatan College · Sree Agrasain College · St.Paul's Cathedral Missions College · St. Xavier's College, Calcutta · Sundarban Hazi Desarat College · Sundarban Mahavidyalaya · Sushil Kar College · Surendranath College · Surendranath College for Women · Surendranath Evening College · Swami Niswambalananda Girls’ College · Syamaprasad College · Syampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya · Taradevi Harakhchand Kankaria Jain College · The Bhowanipore Education Society College · Udaynarayanpur Madhabilata Mahavidyalaya · Uluberia College · Umesh Chandra College · Victoria Institution (College) · Vidyanagar College · Vidyasagar College · Vidyasagar College for Women · Vidyasagar Evening College · Vidyasagar Mahavidyalaya · Viharilal College for Home and Social Science · Vijoygarh Jyotish Roy College · Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur · Vivekananda College for Women · Women's College · Women's Christian College, Calcutta Other Institutions Bengal Music College · Carry Institute of Horticulture · Government College of Arts and Crafts Institutions formerly affiliated with the university Armenian College (Kolkata) · Barasat Government College · Bengal Engineering College · Bengal Veterinary College · Bidhannagar College · Brajalal College · Calcutta Medical College · Calcutta National Medical College · Chittagong College · Cotton College, Guwahati · Dhaka College · Government College, Lahore · Indian Statistical Institute,Calcutta · Midnapore College · Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College · Mohindra College, Patiala · Murari Chand College, Sylhet · Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital · Presidency General Hospital · Rajshahi College · School of Tropical Medicine · Rangoon College · Ravenshaw College, Cuttack · St. Stephen's College, Delhi · Suri Vidyasagar College · Thomason College of Civil Engineering · Tripura Engineering College

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