University of Calcutta Admissions

University of Calcutta Admissions 
The university has several campuses spread over the city of Kolkata and its suburbs. The university also has many affiliated colleges spread over southern West Bengal. It has now 58 Post Graduate teaching departments and 209 affiliated colleges, serving about 300,000 students. The University of Calcutta was established on the 24 January 1857, the University of Calcutta (also known as Calcutta University). This University is located in the city of Kolkata. The University of Calcutta is the oldest of the modern universities in India


Manuscript Library at Calcutta University
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. They are in different languages such as Sanskrit, Tibetan, Bangla, Oriya, Maithili, Pali, Arabic and Persian, and in scripts like Bengali, Oriya, Gaudi, Newari, Malayalam and Maithili. Some manuscripts are wrought in gold and silver lettering.

University of Calcutta Halls and Hostels
There are 17 Halls and Hostels under the University of Calcutta providing accommodation to about 2000 students studying in the University Colleges of Arts, Commerce, Science, Technology and Law and also the undergraduate students of the colleges as well as men research scholars/fellows of the University. Management of Halls / Hostels is executed by Board of Residence, an advisory body of the University of Calcutta.

Undergraduate Hall(s) (for Men)
Carmichael Hall (For Muslim students, both U.G. and P.G.) 
Undergraduate Halls (for Women)
Vidyasagar Chhatriniwas
Hastings House Compound, Kolkata-27
U.G. Lady Students’ Hall
Postgraduate Halls (for Men)
P.G. Men Students’ Hall
P.G. Men Students’ Hall (Technology)
P.G. Men Students’ Hall (Economics)
P.G. Men Students’ Hall
P.G. Men Students’ Hall
University Buddhist Students ' Hall'
University New Law College Hostel
Postgraduate Halls (for Women)
P.G. Lady Students’ Hall
P.G. Lady Students’ Hall
Hironmoyee Chatribhaban
P.G. Lady Students’ Hall
P.G. Lady Students’ Hall
P.G. Lady Students’ Hall
Research Scholars’ Hostel (for Male Scholars only)

Faculties, Departments and Schools at the University of Calcutta
The University has 8 faculties and 10 centers.

Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Science
Department of Anthropology
Department of Applied Physics
Department of Applied Mathematics
Department of Applied Chemistry
Department of Applied Psychology
Atmospheric Science
Department of Bio-Chemistry
Department of Bio-Physics
Department of Molecular Biology
Department of Genetics
Department of Chemistry
Department of Electronic Science
Genetics Geology
Department of Geography
Department of Marine Science
Department of Botany
Department of Geology
Department of Physics
Department of Psychology
Department of Physiology Science
Department of Pure Mathematics
Department of Statistics
Department of Zoology
S N Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences


Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Agriculture 
Department of Agriculture
Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Arts
Department of Ancient Indian History & Culture
Department of Arabic & Persian
Department of Archaeology 
Department of Bengali Language and Literature
Department of Economics 
Department of English Language and Literature
Department of French
Department of Hindi
Department of History
Department of Islamic History & Culture Languages
Department of Linguistics 
Museology
Department of Pali
Department of Philosophy 
Department of Political Science
Sanskrit
Sociology
Department of South and South East Asian Studies
Tamil Studies
Urdu
Department of Education

Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Commerce, Social Welfare & Business Management
Department of Business Management
Commerce

Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Education, Journalism & Library Science Education
Journalism & Mass Communication
Library and Information Science

Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Engineering & Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Technology
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Polymer Science and Technology
Radio Physics and Electronics

Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Fine Arts, Music and Home Science
Home Science

Faculty Council for Post-Graduate studies in Law
Department of Law, University of Calcutta

Centers
Institute of Agriculture
Centre for Urban Economic Studies

Address
University of Calcutta
Senate House
87 /1 College Street
Kolkata
West Bengal
India
Pin Code: 700073
Telephone: +91-33-2413288/311537/2410071/2414984
Fax: +91-33-2413222