Aliah University
Erstwhile rather reputed widely as the Mohammedan College of Calcutta or the Calcutta Madrasah, the Aliah University of today, is a fast thriving and hugely popular higher education university in West Bengal, especially to Muslim students and students belonging to the minorities and backward classes of the society. Established in 2008 as per the Aliah University Act No-27 of 2007 of the State legislative assembly of West Bengal, and through upgrading the Calcutta Madrasah, this ambitious minority autonomous university seeks to offer uplifting education through harmonizing the tradition with modernity. This aliah university india, started its dynamic and highly enthusiastic journey from the 2008-09 academic session, with immense potential and extensive growth opportunities to students. Boasting of a rich and glorious heritage of being one of the oldest educational and cultural institutions of India, this aliah university of Kolkata aspires to emerge out as a highly innovative, reputed, and unique institution for superb higher studies and research, especially to Muslims and backward classes and minorities, in West Bengal and India in future years. Here, it may briefly be mentioned that the famous Calcutta Madrasah was set up in 1780 with support of the then Governor General of India, as the very first educational institution incepted by British Empire in India. The old campus of this aliah university is located at the Salt Lake City, Kolkata; while its new campus will be established at Rajarhat, over an extensive area of about 20 acres.
At present, the following are the main and major academic faculty divisions of this magnificent aliah university of Kolkata: -
- FACULTY OF THEOLOGY - Department of Islamic Theology; Department of Islamic Jurisprudence and Law
- FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES - Department of Economics; Department of Education; Department of Islamic Studies; Department of Media Science (Journalism and Mass Communication)
- FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND LANGUAGES - Department of Arabic; Department of English; Department of Bengali; Department of History;
- FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES - Department of Chemistry; Department of Computer Science; Department of Physics; Department of Mathematics; Department of Statistics; Department of Biosciences; Department of Geography
- FACULTY OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS - Department of Commerce; Department of Islamic Banking, Finance, and Insurance;
- FACULTY OF ENGINEERING - Department of Computer Engineering; Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering; Department of Electrical Engineering; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Department of Civil Engineering; Department/Centre of/for Vocational Studies
- FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES - Department of Hospital Management; Department of Marketing and Retail Management; Department of Financial Management
- FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES - Department of Nursing
These academic faculties and departments help aliah university west bengal, to offer an opulent gamut of highly creative and prolific educational and professional courses in the subjects and disciplines concerned, at varying academic levels. These courses of this aliah university kolkata, can broadly be grouped into the categories of the undergraduate and integrated courses, postgraduate courses, PG diploma courses, and the doctoral courses in some selected disciplines. Admissions to most of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses of this reputed university, are rigorous and competitive, and are made based on merit, through the Aliah University Admission Test (AUAT) conducted every year. For obtaining more or detailed information regarding this one of the top universities in kolkata, readers are requested to visit its website www.aliah.ac.in/-. Apart from well-established academic infrastructure and facilities, the support and developmental facilities and services present with this fast progressing and innovative aliah university are university library, hostels, scholarship schemes, placement services, anti-ragging squad, and many other facilities and services for students.