Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K or IISER Kolkata) is an autonomous

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in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, India. It was established by the

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in 2006 and promoted to the status of an Institute of National Importance in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act. It is one of seven

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, and was the first of the IISERs to be established along with IISER Pune. It is considered to be one of the leading institutes of India in terms of research output, and was ranked fourth among the academic institutions in India by the

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). AIIMS Kalyani, IIIT Kalyani,

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(BCKV) & MAKAUT are other nearby Institutions.

Admissions

Administrative Block, IISER, Kolkata in Kalyani campus 08

Admission is done through the three channels open for all IISERs: *

Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (English: ''Young Scientist Incentive Plan'') (KVPY) was a scholarship programme funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, aimed at encouraging students to take up research ...

(KVPY) *

Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE-Advanced) (formerly the Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE)), is an academic examination held annually in India. It is organised by one of the seven zonal IITs (IIT ...

(JEE-Advanced) *State and Central Boards (SCBs) From 2019 onwards it was declared on behalf of all IISERs that a maximum of 25% of the seats are assigned to KVPY and JEE-Advanced students. Students applying through SCBs also need to take IISER Aptitude Test (IAT), and are assigned by merit on this test. Note, only the students who are in top 20 percentile of their Class 12th Board exam of their respective board are eligible to appear for IISER Aptitude Test (IAT).

Organisation

The institute has five major departments:

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chemical science Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties ...

earth science Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres ...

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and

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; and

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s. Additionally, the institute hosts the multi-institutional Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) with participating scientists from ISRO and other astronomy institutes and is involved in research associated with national space science missions. Other centres include the Centre for Advanced Functional Materials, National Centre for High Pressure Studies and a Centre for Climate and Environment Studies. The college also provides minor qualifications through the

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s (HSS) department and the

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s (CDS) department. It also has a field station for ecological, environmental and field studies, a greenhouse, a broadband seismological observatory. The institute jointly runs the Göttingen-Kolkata: Open shell systems (G-KOSS) in fundamentals of molecular spintronics with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The institute also hosts the Dirac Supercomputer, which was inaugurated in April 2019. The performance of this supercomputing facility is 78.8

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Events

The college organizes a major annual festival, Inquivesta, which is promoted as one of the first and the biggest science fest of the country. Inquivesta sees a footfall of 1000+, and has been visited by artists such as

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, Nalayak(band) and Anubhav Singh Bassi. It has also received brands such as

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as its previous partners IISER Kolkata has also been hosting VIJYOSHI (the national science camp), along with IISc Bangalore and the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, since 2014. The institute also has an E-Cell for promoting an entrepreneurial culture in the student body.

Rankings

Internationally, the institute was ranked 301–350 among institutes in emerging economics, by the ''

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'' "Emerging Economies University Rankings 2020". In India, the

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(NIRF) ranked the institute 29 overall in 2020, and 25 among universities in 2019. Considering the statistical data of 2020, IISER Kolkata ranks first among all IISERs in India. The Nature Index(compiled by

) ranked the institute among the top 5 academic research-intensive institutes of India.

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