{"id":19195,"date":"2015-01-20T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T06:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/directory\/?p=19195"},"modified":"2016-01-09T07:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:49:40","slug":"university-calcutta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/directory\/university-calcutta","title":{"rendered":"University of Calcutta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Address:-<\/strong> <\/span>University of Calcutta<br \/>\nSenate House, 87\/1,<br \/>\nCollege Street,<br \/>\nKolkata, West Bengal 700073<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Phone:<\/strong> <\/span>033 2241 0071<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Information:-<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666699;\">The University of Calcutta (Bengali: \u0995\u09b2\u0995\u09be\u09a4\u09be \u09ac\u09bf\u09b6\u09cd\u09ac\u09ac\u09bf\u09a6\u09cd\u09af\u09be\u09b2\u09af\u09bc; informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857.[4] By foundation date, it is the first institution in South Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and secular Western style university. Within India it is recognized as a Five Star University and a Centre with Potential for Excellence by the University Grants Commission and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.[5][6] There are four Nobel laureates associated with this university: Ronald Ross, Rabindra Nath Tagore, C. V. Raman and Amartya Sen.[7] Within all state universities all over India, this university had the highest number students who cleared the doctoral entrance eligibility exam in the sciences conducted by Government of India&#8217;s National Eligibility Test to become eligible to pursue research with full scholarship awarded by the Government of India.[8]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">It is a state-government administered urban-based affiliating and research university. It has its central campus in College Street (called Ashutosh Shiksha Prangan). Its other campuses are in Rajabazar (called Rashbehari Shiksha Prangan), Ballygunge (called Taraknath Palit Shiksha Prangan), Alipore (called Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan), Hazra and South Sinthi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address:- University of Calcutta Senate House, 87\/1, College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073 Phone: 033 2241 0071 Information:- The University of Calcutta (Bengali: \u0995\u09b2\u0995\u09be\u09a4\u09be \u09ac\u09bf\u09b6\u09cd\u09ac\u09ac\u09bf\u09a6\u09cd\u09af\u09be\u09b2\u09af\u09bc; informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857.[4] By foundation date, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[40680,40487,40684,40681,3118,40683,36305,40686,40687,40685,40677,40679,40678,45286,40682],"class_list":["post-19195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-schools-colleges-universities","tag-address-of-university-of-calcutta-west-bengal","tag-best-law-university-of-west-bengal","tag-best-university-of-calcutta-in-west-bengal","tag-contact-details-university-of-calcutta-west-bengal","tag-faculty-of-law","tag-how-reach-university-of-calcutta-west-bengal","tag-law-university","tag-national-university-of-calcutta-west-bengal","tag-the-university-of-calcutta-west-bengal-in-uttarakhand","tag-top-university-of-calcutta-in-west-bengal","tag-university-of-calcutta","tag-university-of-calcutta-in-west-bengal","tag-university-of-calcutta-west-bengal","tag-west-bengal","tag-where-is-university-of-calcutta-west-bengal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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