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Kolkata
EDUCATION
Calcutta
has excellent educational facilities.
Schools:The
ISCE syllabus is followed in schools like Loreto house, La Martiniere,
St.Xaviers. CBSE syllabus in schools like BD Memorial School and
Hindi High School. The Madhyamik (state syllabus) is followed
in Don Bosco, St.Lawrence, Modern High.
Admissions:
For the large and reputed schools, admissions are very difficult
to get. Applications begin from age 2 years. Final exams are usually
in March - April. Donations also are required, ranging from 20,000
to 1 lakh. (!!)
Colleges:
The usual arts, science and commerce streams are available. The
University of Calcutta is one of the oldest in the country.
Calcutta
University
Senate
House, College Street, Calcutta 700073 2413288 (take a look
at details from http://php.indiana.edu/~mduttara/nickel/ucal.html)
Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Calcutta 700032 4735508
(more details from Bagchi at www.civeng.carleton.ca/~abagchi/ju/jadavpur.html)
Some
other universities of repute are Rabindra Bharati University at
Dwarakanath Tagore Lane, Calcutta-7
Burdwan
University at Vardhamman, in the neighbouring district to
the west.
Vidyasagar University at Medinipur ( Midnapore)
Viswabharati University (www.vbharat.ernet.in)
Shantiniketan , founded by Rabindranath Tagore
Kalyani University at kalyani, Nadia dt
North Bengal University at Jalpaiguri , near the Himalayas
to the north
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyala (agricultural) at Mohanpur,
Nadia .
Professional : Calcutta also has a galaxy of institutions
of higher learning. For engineering and medicine a joint entrance
exam is held. Applicants from other states also are eligible to
appear. Among the well known ones are the
Indian
Institute of Management in the southern part of Calcutta ,
Diamond Harbor Rd. More details from their website at
(www.iimcal.ac.in ).
The Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur , 60 km
to the south of Calcutta.( www.iitkgp.ernet.in )
The world famous Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta
(www.isical.ac.in )
Bengal Engineering College which is a deemed University,
on the opposite bank of the hooghly at Shibpur, Howrah:
Regional Engineering College at Durgapur (Some distance
away, but nonetheless under the Calcutta orbit.)
(http://recdgp.nic.in/ --could also see http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/6135/)
There
are several scientific institutions in Calcutta.
Bose
Institute http://boseinst.ernet.in/
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Salt Lake, Sector-I)
named after Dr Meghnad Saha a pioneering Indian scientist.
(http://tnp.saha.ernet.in/ )
S.N.Bose Center for Basic Science, also at Salt Lake, Calcutta.(http://boson.bose.res.in/home.html)
(for further info and good details see www.calcuttaweb.com
and www.kolkata.net)
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