University of Calcutta

University of Calcutta
কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
	Seal of the University of Calcutta
Other name	Calcutta University
Motto	Advancement of Learning
Type	Public
Established	24 January 1857
Founder	List Alexander Duff; Sir Charles Wood; Maharaja Maheshwar Singh Bahadur; Dr. Fredrick John; ;
Accreditation	NAAC
Academic affiliations	UGC; AIU; ACU;
Budget	₹337 crore (US$42 million); (FY2021–22 est.)
Chancellor	Governor of West Bengal
Vice-Chancellor	Prof. Santa Datta (De)
Academic staff	1,255 (2023)
Students	17,881 (2023)
Undergraduates	2,190 (2023)
Postgraduates	12,012 (2023)
Doctoral students	3,679 (2023)
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India; 22°34′30″N 88°21′46″E / 22.57500°N 88.36278°E
Campus	Large city
Acronym	CU
Newspaper	Calcutta Review
Website	www.caluniv.ac.in

The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; abbreviated as CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate colleges and 16 institutes in Kolkata and nearby areas. It was established on 24 January 1857 and is the oldest multidisciplinary university of Indian Subcontinent and South East Asian Region. Today, the university's jurisdiction is limited to a few districts of West Bengal, but at the time of its establishment it had a catchment area ranging from Kabul to Myanmar. Within India, it is recognized as a "Five-Star University" and accredited an "A" grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

The university has a total of fourteen campuses spread over the city of Kolkata and its suburbs. As of 2020, 151 colleges and 21 institutes and centres are affiliated with CU. The university was fourth in the Indian University Ranking 2021 list, released by the National Institutional Ranking Framework of the Ministry of Education.

Its alumni and faculty include several heads of state and government, social reformers, prominent artists, the only Indian Dirac Medal winner, many Fellows of the Royal Society and six Nobel laureates as of 2019. The Nobel laureates associated with this university are Ronald Ross, Rabindranath Tagore, C. V. Raman, Amartya Sen, and Abhijit Banerjee.

The university has the highest number of students who have cleared the National Eligibility Test. The University of Calcutta is a member of the United Nations Academic Impact.

^ Budget Publication No. 23 (PDF). Government of West Bengal. 2021. p. 95. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "NIRF 2023" (PDF). Calcutta University.

[1] Budget Publication No. 23 (PDF). Government of West Bengal. 2021. p. 95. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.

[nirf_stud-2] "NIRF 2023" (PDF). Calcutta University.

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