3 Best Arts Colleges in Kolkata, WB

Good college and great faculty. The college consists of four buildings and the building seen from Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road is the oldest and main building. Three colleges are located in the same building: Jogamaya Devi College (morning section), Asutosh College (day section), and Shyama Prasad College (evening section). Asutosh College is the main one. Social and cultural events happen all year round. Good infrastructure and well maintained libraries.

If someone ask you which college is the best under Calcutta University , then obviously Asutosh College will be there , 3 slot system under there , in morning jogmaya devi college for arts students , in days Asutosh college for science students , and Shyama peasad college for Commerce .. One of the best college In Kolkata. Big big names are there. Located near Hazra(jatindas park metro) For travel - From sealdah take a bus 230 , 3c1or anything that goes Behala , kalighat , Anandapur , Alipoor etc , and from Howrah take a bus Of Tallygaung or Rasbehari , Behala etc.. or you can came here with Kolkata metro easily from ant station to Jatis das park metro station.

In 1915, the initiative to found a college was taken up by Sir Asutosh Mukherjee who was then the President of the General Committee of the South Suburban group of schools, Bhowanipore, a committee dedicated to the cause of imparting secondary education.

Scottish Church College, established in 1830 as the General Assembly's Institution and given its present name in 1929 is an institution born out of one such impetus. The college founder, Rev. Alexander Duff, was the first missionary to India from the Church of Scotland. Induction of the new Principal Dr. Madhumanjari Mandal Chaube . Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in Asia. Students and alumni call themselves "Caledonians" in the name of the college festival, "Caledonia". In the early 1800s, under the regime of the East India Company, English education and Missionary activities were initially suspect.[4] While the East India Company supported Orientalist instruction in the vernacular languages like Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit, and helped to establish institutions like Calcutta Madrasah College, and Sanskrit College, in general, colonial administrative policy discouraged the dissemination of knowledge in their language, that is in English. The general apathy of the Company towards the cause of education and improvement of natives is in many ways, the background for the agency of missionaries like Duff. Inspired by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Reverend Alexander Duff, then a young missionary, arrived in India's colonial capital to set up an English-medium institution. Though Bengalis had shown some interest in the spread of Western education from the begin

One of the top colleges in India; a Christian minority institution founded by the Scottish missionary Rev. Dr. Alexander Duff in 1830; the alma mater of a galaxy of illustrious Indians including Swami Vivekananda, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Brajendra Nath Seal, Nirad C Chaudhuri, Chandramukhi Basu, Asima Chatterjee. NAAC Grade 'A' institution since 2004. A College with the Potential for Excellence from 2007 to 2020. In the service of nation with its tradition of liberal and quality education for an enviably long period of nearly two hundred years.

Very beautiful inside and outside, management is really good. Good behaviour from teachers. Science labs are very big. The environment was very calm and full of greens.