Vidyasagar College For Women Kolkata

Vidyasagar College was founded in the year 1872. The college had its origin in the Calcutta Training School that was founded by Thakurdas Chakraborty in 1859. In 1864, the school came to be known as the Metropolitan Institution. In 1872, the University of Calcutta granted affiliation to the Institution for the First Arts (FA) standard. The birth of the first private and truly secular college in the Presidency of Bengal was hailed as a landmark in the academic and cultural ethos of India.
It was the great Indian educationalist and social reformer Pandit Iswarchandra Vidyasagar who was associated with the Collegefrom its very inception in 1872. The college is a living monument of the untiring labours of Vidyasagar who is known to be the founder of the college. After the passing away of the founder in 1891, the name, Metropolitan Institute, was changed to Vidyasagar College in 1917. Impeccably, the college in its new phase flourished to become a premier center of higher education in both Arts and Science. In course of time, the college was granted permission for study of Post Graduate curriculumand today it can boast of all facilities for Honours Course in as many as eighteensubjects in Art and Science in under graduate curriculum and certain post graduation courses.

Why join Vidyasagar College?

Healthy Faculty Count:

College has a large strength of teachers that are responsible for imparting quality education to the students so that they emerge as global leaders in the future. Almost all the teachers have their highest degree of qualification as Ph.D., and all are experienced too.

Learning and development:

College has 10 well-equipped laboratories for carrying out research and experiments. College also provides a basic computer awareness course to give students overview of basic programmes.

NCC & NSS Activities:

College also regularly organizes seminars, NCC & NSS activities in the college. Student’s Union and alumni association take an active part in organizing such activities. College has a nominal fee structure.

Departments:-

• Department of English
• Department of Bengali
• Department of Sanskrit
• Department of philosophy
• Department of History
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Economics
• Department of Geography
• Department of journalism
• Department of Physics
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Zoology
• Department of Botany
• Department of Physiology
• Department of Library