University of Calcutta

Overview

University of Calcutta

University of Calcutta (Calcutta University or CU) is a collegiate public state research university in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1857 and is the first multidisciplinary and Western-style institution in Asia. Within India, CU is recognized as a "Five-Star University" and accredited an "A" grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. The university is a member of the United Nations Academic Impact.

University of Calcutta Key Statistics

The university is organized into eight faculties, including the Faculty of Social Welfare and Business Management, Faculty of Journalism and Library Science, and Faculty of Engineering and Technology. These academic units are further divided into 60 departments. CU offers undergraduate and graduate programs.

Calcutta University has a population of 19,004 students. Of these, 2,871 are undergraduates, 12,353 are postgraduates, and 3,780 are doctoral candidates. It employs 1,279 academic staff. The university has a total of 14 campuses spread over the city of Kolkata and its suburbs, with the Central Campus located on College Street.

The library system of CU consists of the Central Library, five campus libraries, forty departmental libraries, and libraries of the centers for advanced studies. The Central Library houses a collection of more than 1 million books and 200,000 volumes of bound Journals, M.Phil. and Ph.D. dissertations, proceedings of conferences, reports, maps, standards, patents, and microfilms.

Other University of Calcutta key statistics include the 151 colleges and 21 institutes and centers that are affiliated with it.

University of Calcutta Research

Research at the university is highly regarded in the country and worldwide. CU’s research activities are funded by the university’s endowment funds ($47 million), the Government of West Bengal, the University Grants Commission, and other agencies and donors.

The university's top three research fields are chemistry, materials science, and biology. Its researchers have published in ChemInform, Tetrahedron Letters, and RSC Advances. Its researchers had been invited to attend or present papers at international conferences such as the Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, Soft Computing, and the International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Energy & Communication.

The most cited publication from the University of Calcutta research is Klionsky et al.’s (2021) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th Edition),” published in Autophagy with a total of 8,166 citations to date. The second most cited paper is Klionsky et al.’s (2016) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd Edition),” published in Autophagy. It has received a total of 7,745 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Sengupta’s (2013) “The laboratory rat: Relating its age with human’s,” published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 1,507 times so far.

There are 160 institutes under Calcutta University. These include the Centre for Urban Economic Studies, the S. K. Mitra Center for Space Environment, the Peace Studies Research Centre, and the Centre for Testing and Training for Providing Technical Backup to the Beneficiaries for Agricultural and Horticultural Development. Its other research units are the Centre for Millimeter-Wave Semiconductor Devices & Systems, the Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies, and the Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.