University of Kalyani

In 1998 it became an affiliating university with its territorial jurisdiction extended to the districts of Nadia and Murshidabad, and it affiliated 37 colleges, earlier under Calcutta University. Since then the undergraduate teaching programmes at the University were discontinued and were left to its affiliated colleges.

For planned development of the town, the need for emphasising education and health infrastructure was duly emphasised in the master plan and the University of Kalyani was established in November 1960, as a unitary university with the faculties of Arts, Science, Education, and Agriculture. Since inception, the University marked its progress and attracted students of the region as well as many eminent scholars of the country.

Since then the undergraduate teaching programmes at the University were discontinued and were left to its affiliated colleges. In the early part of the first decade of this century, the University introduced 6 new departments, namely, Business Administration, Microbiology, Geography, Molecular Biology & Bio-Technology, Physiology, and Rural Development & Management.