ISI Kolkata Login

Can you tell me in detail about the campus of ISI or Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata? Provide me the contact detail of ISI or Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata?

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The web ranking of ISI or Indian Statistical Institute, according to 4ICU (4 International Colleges and Universities), is 1693. According to the web ranking published by Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, it holds the world rank of 2086. The Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata was ranked 38 among the top public universities in India 2015, as published by Careers 360 (Magazine)

Kolkata Campus

ISI Kolkata has a campus consisting of six addresses at 201 through 206 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Baranagar. These include a house, which was an erstwhile office of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) of India.

It is eco-friendly, as conceived by Mahalanobis. Hollow bricks that protect from heat and noise were used with minimum use of reinforced concrete, to avoid radiation.

There was no use of bitumen-basalt blend at the roads inside ISI campuses reduce radiation and preservation of rain water to maintain equilibrium in ground-water level.

The Kolkata campus offers bachelors level degree course in Statistics (B. Stat), master's degree course in Statistics (M.Stat), Mathematics (M.Math), Computer Science (MTech), Quality Reliability and Operations Research (MTech) and Quantitative Economics (M.S.).

Major divisions and units are: Statistics and Mathematics Unit (SMU), Human Genetics Unit (HGU), Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU), Advanced Computation and MicroElectronics Unit (ACMU), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU), Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU), Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Economic Research Unit (ERU), Linguistic Research Unit (LRU), Sociology Research Unit (SRU), Psychometry Research Unit (PRU) and Population Studies Unit (PSU).

The campus has the International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC) which provides training in statistics to sponsored students mainly from the Middle East, South and South East Asia, the Far East and the Commonwealth Countries of Africa.

The Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility, an associate institute of Indian Statistical Institute and established in Kolkata in 2005, is unique in India.

Apart from conducting basic research, it offers a 3-month course and promotes less endowed institutes by providing fellowships and research grants.