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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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