Surendranath College for Women

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About Surendranath College for Women

Surendranath College for Women is a private aided college in Kolkata, West Bengal, established in 1948. Campusbells lists it under General, with 3 undergraduate courses, including B.A, B.Com and B.Sc. Approvals and accreditation: NAAC B, UGC.

Surendranath College for Women was established in 1948, mainly for imparting higher education to girls from partition-affected families. After partition many families came from then East Pakistan and settled in the Sealdah Railway station area and its neighborhood The girls had to take up jobs during the afternoons to maintain their families. So our college with its morning timings came into existence.

Even today our ideal has remained the same. Many of our students come from extremely poverty-stricken backgrounds and several come from families below the poverty line. It is our aim to make them self-reliant.

Our college, together with its entire sister colleges was housed in the same building at 24/2, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata – 700009. Originally, Surendranath College was known as Ripon College. It had been named after the viceroy, Lord Ripon.

After independence it was renamed after its founder, the eminent congress leader, Surendranath Banerjee, nicknamed “Surrender not”, for his tenacity and fiery antiBritish articles in “Bengali”, the newspaper he published and edited.

As described on the institution’s website

At a glance

Key facts

Established

1948

Ownership

Private-Aided

Approvals and accreditation

NAAC B, UGC

Stream

General

Location

Kolkata, West Bengal

Academics

Courses offered at Surendranath College for Women

3 programmes listed

Campus life

Facilities at Surendranath College for Women

• Canteen
• Auditorium
• Gymnasium
• Laboratory
• Library
• Placement Cell
• Bank
• Hostel
• Atm
• Lab