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West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...
, India, is an undergraduate college opened in 2014 by the Calcutta Province of the
Society of Jesus The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 ...
, the body which also administers St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and other institutes throughout India and abroad. It was recently accredited with a B++ grade in its first cycle of NAAC.


History

Purba Bardhaman Purba Bardhaman district is in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Suba ...
(i.e. East Bardhaman) is about north-west of Kolkata and serves as the district headquarters. The Jesuit roots of Bardhaman ("Burdwan") go back to the 1960s, when they opened an English medium school for the large
Santhal Santhal or Santal may refer to : *Santhal people (part of the Tea Tribes), in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam in India, also minorities in neighboring Bangladesh and Nepal ** their Santhal rebellion in present-day Jharkhand, India ** ...
Christian population. Xavier's Burdwan was opened in July 2014 with Bishop Cyperian Monis of the Diocese of Asansol officiating. The college is affiliated to The
University of Burdwan The University of Burdwan (also known as Burdwan University or B. U.) is a public state university located in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It was established by the West Bengal Government as a teaching and affiliating university on 1 ...
. It offers three years honors courses: B.A. in English, Sociology, and Geography; B.Com. in Accountancy; and B.Sc. in Biotechnology, Computer Science, and Geography. From 2018, as per a notification from the University of Burdwan, it is also offering a BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications) -yearcourse.The college also offers a BBA(Bachelor of Business Administration) course. The institution additionally offers a postgraduate programme in English.


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List of institutions of higher education in West Bengal Tertiary education (higher education, or post-secondary education) is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank defines tertiary education as including universities, colleges, and vocational school ...
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Education in West Bengal Education in West Bengal is provided by both the public sector as well as the private sector. Health Sciences, University of North Bengal and University of Calcutta. History Kolkata has played a pioneering role in the development of the mode ...
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List of Jesuit sites This list includes past and present buildings, facilities and institutions associated with the Society of Jesus. In each country, sites are listed in chronological order of start of Jesuit association. Nearly all these sites have be ...


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Colleges in India Jesuit universities and colleges in India Universities and colleges in Purba Bardhaman district University of Burdwan affiliates Educational institutions established in 2014 2014 establishments in West Bengal {{WestBengal-university-stub