First Vice Chancellor of University Of Calcutta

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University of Calcutta was founded in the year 1857. It is located at Kolkata, West Bengal, India and affiliated to UGC, NAAC, AIU.

The first Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University was appointed in the year 1958 was Sir James William Colvile.

The Hon'ble Justice Gooroodas Banerjee became the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of University of Calcutta in 1890.

List of few other Vice-Chancellors of the Calcutta University are given below :

• William Wilson Hunter
• William Ritchie (barrister)
• William Markby
• Syama Prasad Mukherjee
• Subodh Mitra
• Santosh Bhattacharyya
• Sambhunath Banerjee
• Ramendra Kumar Podder
• Radhabinod Pal
• Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta
• Nilratan Sircar
• Lancelot Sanderson
• James William Colvile
• Jadunath Sarkar
• Henry James Sumner Maine
• Hassan Suhrawardy
• Francis William Maclean
• Edward Clive Bayley
• Courtenay Ilbert
• Bidhan Chandra Roy
• Bhupendra Nath Bose
• Azizul Haque (educator)
• Ashutosh Mukherjee
• Arthur Wilson (judge)
• Arthur Hobhouse, 1st Baron Hobhouse
• Alfred Woodley Croft
• Alexander Pedler
• Alexander John Arbuthnot

Contact Details :
University of Calcutta
Senate House, 87/1, College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073
033 2241 0071

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The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University, is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

It was established on 24 January 1857 and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and Western-style university

First Vice Chancellor of University Of Calcutta

The first Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University were Governor General Lord Canning and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sir William Colvile, respectively.

Ashutosh Mukherjee was the Vice-Chancellor for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23).

List of fields in which courses offered:

Agriculture
Arts
Commerce, Social Welfare & Business Management
Education, Journalism & Library Science
Engineering & Technology
Fine Arts, Music and Home Science
Law
Science

List of University centers:

A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology
Women's Studies Research Centre
Gandhian Studies Centre
Centre for Urban Economic Studies
S. K. Mitra Centre for Space Environment
Peace Studies Research Centre
Centre for Testing and Training for Providing Technical Back up to the Beneficiaries for Agricultural and Horticultural Development
USIC
Centre for Horticultural Studies
CPEPA-UGC center for “Electrophysiology & Neuro-Imaging studies including Mathematical Modeling”
Centre for Millimeter Wave Semiconductor Devices & Systems
Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies
Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities
Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies
Centre for Studies in Book Publishing
Nehru Studies Centre
Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy
Institute of Foreign Policy Studies
Centre for Pollination Studies
University of Calcutta – Calcutta Stock Exchange Centre of Excellence in Financial Markets (CUCSE-CEFM)

Address:

University of Calcutta
87/1, College Street, Kolkata-700 073