University Profile:

    Jadavpur University has originated from the National Council of Education established dozen of the then Bengal Intelligentsia on June 1,1906 . Since 1906 the council had to intensify it's technical educational activities through the   Bengal Technical Institute later named as the college of engineering and technology , Bengal functioning as the national university exclusively under National control . Govt. of West Bengal with concurrence of the Govt. of India enacted legislation to give a statutory recognition to the National Council under the name of Jadavpur University on the 24th December 1955 . At present the university has three Faculties : Engineering & Technology , Science and Arts. The faculty of Engineering & Technology runs 15 B.E. programmes , 3 Part-Time (Evening) Engg. degree courses , 2 Post B.Sc ,B.Tech courses , 20 Post Graduate courses (M.E/ M.Tech) with a lot of specialization and M.C.A course . All courses are approved by the A.I.C.T.E . Jadavpur University was declared along with four other Universities of India , as the University having the "Potential of Excellence" . The  University was also accorded the Five Star Status by NAAC .

    The University is primarily a "UNITARY UNIVERSITY" having only four affiliated colleges , viz ,  Smt. Javahari Devi Birla Institute of Home Science and the Jadavpur Vidyapith - College of Education ,  Institute of Business Management Under the National Council of Education, Bengal and Marine Engineering & Research Institute , Calcutta . Due to Tradition and Achievements the University is recognized as one of the leading Universities of India .

The Jadavpur University :

By now we have about 274 Universities and National Institutions , deemed as Universities , in India. Jadavpur University is one of them , yet it's different in it's history , tradition and culture.

    The University stands on an area  of 60 acres of land at the Raja S.C. Mallick Road in Jadavpur, Kolkata -700 032 . Jadavpur became a statutory University only on the 24th December 1955 , but the story began much earlier , under very different and unique circumstances .

    During the closing decades of the 19th century the idea of national education was crystallizing particularly in Bengal . The then Dawn society in 1902 , endeavored to include a proper outlook on education in the perspective of national tradition , national interest and true educational values . Then came the declaration for the partition of Bengal , by the British Viceroy ,into two provinces on the basis of caste and religion. The spirit of national self-respect found its outburst in the Swadeshi Movement for boycott of everything of the then British including education. The Dawn Society ceased to exist and on the 16th November 1905 , the cream of Bengal Intelligentsia met in a conference in Calcutta , and resolved to form a National Council of Education - Literary Science and Technical - on national lines and under the National control . On 1st June 1906 , the Council was registered  . On the 11th March 19922 - the foundation day of the Council - the foundation stone of the Aurobindo Building at the present Jadavpur University campus was laid . Of all the Undertakings of the National Council of Education of a few decades ago , the Bengal Technical Institute , founded in 1910 and renamed the College of Engineering and Technology, was the only one to survive after a long bitter struggle . Because of the traditions the Council could not contemplate seeking Affiliation to any existing Indian Universities , although the standard of education  imparted to the students to the diplomas and degrees awarded by the Council was recognized as Equivalent to the standard of University education both at home and abroad . Finally the Jadavpur University Bill  was introduced in the West Bengal state Legislature in September 1955 and was formally established as the Jadavpur University .

The Second Campus of the University :

The second campus of the University is located far away from the main campus in  Salt Lake City (Block - LB , Plot No. 8 , Sector-III , Kolkata -700 091). The second campus , as planned will develop as self-contained seat of learning . It is envisaged as a venue for the centers of specialized study and research in the field of Engineering and Technology. At present in the full time degree courses of Construction Technology , Instrumentation Engineering ,Printing Engineering , Power Plant Engineering and Information Technology are being held here regularly.

The Emblem :

      The University adopted for its seal and emblem a design of three lamps circled in lotus petals, executed under the direction of Sri. Nandalal Bose . The lamps represents Knowledge , while the three flames are emblematic of intellectual training , Integration of emotion and the imagination of spiritual development. The petals of lotus in the periphery represent philosophy , the fine arts and culture .

National Council of Education , Bengal :

    N.C.E , Bengal is well and still alive .Here on the campus it runs a Primary School and a Higher Secondary School  called the Jadavpur Vidyapith and a college with a degree and Post - Graduate courses in Education. The N.C.E has also introduced the MBA course in the evening .N.C.E as the mother and well wisher , looks after the welfare of the Jadavpur University.

The Great Benefactors ,Masters and Teachers :

    Generous donations for the great cause came from Raja Subodh Chandra Mallick , Brojendra Kishore Roy Chaudhury , Maharaja Suryakanta Acharya Choudhury and many others and the National Council of Education , Bengal proceeded with the programme . Subsequently came the princely bequest of Rs. 13 Lakhs from Sir Rashbehari Ghosh , the legendary legal luminary.

    Calcutta Corporation then under the wise guidance of Mayor Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das  leased out to NCE the the present site of the Jadavpur University where its Engineering College was shifted in 1924 . The Aurobindo Building , now housing the administrative offices , still bears the testimony of the old classrooms of the Engineering College .

    Sri. Aurobindo was the first principal of the Bengal National College and among the teachers were Rabindranath Tagore , Sir Gurudas Bannerjee , Ananda Coomaswamy , Surendranath Bannerjee , ramendra Sundar Trivedi, Radha Kumud Mukherjee , Benoy Kumar Sarkar , Sakharam Ganesh Deoskar and many others .

The Family today:

    The University has a strength of about 7892 students excluding those of the affiliated colleges , nearly half of which belongs to the engineering faculty . Girl students constitute about 65% of the population in the Arts faculty and about 34% in the total population .

    There are about 790 full-time teachers , 414 in Engineering , 180 in Arts and the rest in the Science faculties . So also is the number of non-teaching staffs, including officers , is in the region of 1600.