UGC Vidyasagar University

Hi I would like to know if the Vidyasagar University is recognised by the University Grants Commission as I would like to have information on the same?

[Kiran Chandar]

The University was built up on 29th September 1981 by an Act called the Vidyasagar University Act 1981 (West Bengal Act XVIII of 1981) after the name of Pandit Iswar Chandra Bandyopadhyay known as Vidyasagar, the educationist and social specialist of Bengal.

The University Grants Commissionv(UGC) agreed money related acknowledgment to the University under 12B on March 1,1990. The aggregate zone of the University is 182.75 sections of land (Main Campus 103.74, Residential Campus 35.04 and third plot measuring 43.97 sections of land).

Vidyasagar University has 29 departments organized into two faculties: Science, Arts & Commerce.

Faculty of Science
The faculty consists of the departments of
o Applied Mathematics with Oceanology and Computer Programming,
o Aquaculture Management & Technology,
o Anthropology,
o Botany,
o Forestry,
o Statistics
o Biomedical Laboratory Science and Technology,
o Computer Science,
o Chemistry and Chemical Technology,
o Physiology and Community Health
o Dietetics & Community Nutrition Management,
o Economics with Rural Development,
o Electronics
o Geography and Environment Management
o Physics and Techno-physics,
o Microbiology
o Remote Sensing & GIS,
o Zoology
o fishery science.

Faculty of Arts and Social Science
The faculty consists of the departments of
o Bengali,
o English,
o History,
o Political Science with Rural Administration,
o Philosophy and Life-world,
o Library and Information Science
o Sanskrit,
o Sociology,
o Mass Communication and Videography,
o Santali,
o Hindi

Faculty of Commerce
o Commerce with Farm Management
o Master of Business Administration(MBA).

Centres
o Women Study Centre
o University Scientific Instrumentation Centre (USIC)
o Gandhian Study Centre
o Computer Centre
o Social Research Center