Calcutta University
| কলিকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় | |
Seal of the University of Calcutta
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| Motto | Advancement of Learning |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 24 January 1857 |
| Chancellor | Keshari Nath Tripathi, Governor of West Bengal |
| Vice-Chancellor | Ashutosh Ghosh |
| Students | 22,520 |
| Undergraduates | 3,715 |
| Postgraduates | 15,750 |
| Location |
Kolkata, West Bengal, India 22°34′35″N 88°21′43″E / 22.57639°N 88.36194°ECoordinates: 22°34′35″N 88°21′43″E / 22.57639°N 88.36194°E |
| Campus | Urban, 136 affiliated colleges |
| Colors | Sky blue |
| Nickname | CU |
| Affiliations | UGC, NAAC, AIU |
| Website | www |
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| General – international | |
| QS (World) | 601-650 |
| QS (Asian) | 149 |
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| India Today | 2 |
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857. It was the first institution in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and secular Western-style university. Within India it is recognized as a "Five-Star University" and a "Centre with Potential for Excellence" by the University Grants Commission and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. There are seven Nobel laureates associated with this university including Ronald Ross, Rabindranath Tagore, C. V. Raman and Amartya Sen. The university has the highest number of students who have cleared the doctoral entrance eligibility exam in Natural Science & Arts conducted by Government of India's National Eligibility Test to become eligible to pursue research with a full scholarship awarded by the Government of India.
The University of Calcutta was ranked 601-650 in the QS World University Rankings of 2011 and 43 in the QS University Rankings for Asia in 2012. In India, it was ranked second by India Today in its list of Top India Universities of 2012, 2013 and 2014. It is 16th Best University in All over India by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. Of India in 2017.
The Calcutta University Act came into force on 24 January 1857 and a 41-member Senate was formed as the policy making body of the university. The land for the establishment of this university was given by Maharaja Maheshwar Singh Bahadur, who was a Maharaja of Darbhanga. When the university was first established it had a catchment area covering the area from Lahore to Rangoon (now in Myanmar), and Ceylon, the largest of any Indian university.
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