Type Public Vice-Chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh Founded 1857 Motto Advancement of Learning Undergraduates 3,715 | Established 1857 (1857) Postgraduates 15,750 Number of students 22,520 Chancellor Keshari Nath Tripathi | |
Location Kolkata, West Bengal, India Campus Urban, 136 affiliated colleges Affiliations University Grants Commission, National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Association of Indian Universities Similar University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University, Presidency University - Kolkata, Vidyasagar College, University of Kalyani | ||
University College of Science, Technology & Agriculture, also known as Rajabazar Science College, is one of the four main campuses of the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India.
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It was established in 1914 by the initiative of Sir Taraknath Palit and Sir Rash Behari Ghosh who were famous lawyer, education activist and prominent figure of India's freedom movement. It was established to house the post graduate science departments of the university.
University departments
All the engineering and technological departments and some pure science departments run from the campus.
Faculty of Science
The university offers a two-year M. Sc. degree in all the pure science subjects. Departments that are housed in the campus are Chemistry, Computer & Information Science, Electronic Science, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Psychology, Biomedical Instrumentation(JAP-BMI), Bio Physics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
The faculty consists of courses leading to a three-year (six semesters)[Now it is becoming a 4 years 8 semesters course of 10+2+4 through wbjee from 2015] B.Tech. which is offered to students already having a B. Sc. degree (10+2+3). M. Tech. courses are either two years (full-time) or three years (part-time) of duration.Part-time M.Tech courses are offered to the working professionals only.
1st year of 10+2+4 course[intake through WBJEE with top ranks after some good branches of JU] is studied in saltlake campus (crnn) of UCSTA(CU). CSE,IT,Optics department is totally shifted to saltlake(CRNN) campus of UCSTA(CU) with a great infra and worldclass faculties. It also offers a post B.Sc. three-year MCA programme.