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Located at 86/1, College Street, in Kolkata, India , Presidency College, Calcutta offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in natural sciences , humanities and social sciences. It is affiliated to the University of Calcutta.
It was established as Hindu College , with the foundation being laid on January 20, 1817 in Calcutta, the capital of British India , thus making it the first Western style college in Asia. It was renamed to Presidency College in 1855 to admit non Hindu students like Muslims, Jews , Christians, Buddhists and followers of the Brahmo Samaj. It was placed under the control of the University of Calcutta in 1857.
It was one of the first colleges in India to admit female students with the first girl student attending class in 1897.
It is considered by academics abroad to be the Indian equivalent of Harvard -- both by historical significance as well as by academic standards.
It was ranked no. 1 arts college in India by the weekly newsmagazine India Today in 2001.
Many of its ex-students can be found in leading research universities in the West.
Departments
English - Bengali - Hindi - Sanskrit - History - Philosophy - Political Science - Sociology - Physics - Chemistry - Mathematics - Statistics - Economics - Geography - Geology - Botany - Zoology - Physiology
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