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Scottish Church College, Kolkata
Scottish Church College is one of the oldest missionary college of Kolkata, which brought European enlightenment.

Scottish Church College is one of the oldest colleges having missionary heritage, which teaches liberal arts and sciences. It is affiliated with the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and the University of Calcutta. The College is located at 1 and 3 Urquhart Square, Calcutta -700006.

The Scottish Church college building is an example of English Palladian architecture and beautiful campus. The College has an excellent faculty and rich intellectual milieu. The college fest is known as Caledonia and the students and teachers call themselves as Caledonians after the name of the festival.

Scottish Church College, Kolkata Mr. Alexandar Duff was the founder of the College. The institution was known as Scottish Church College after Duff`s institution merged with Church of Scotland in 1929. The Scottish Church College played a pivotal role in Bengal`s intellectual enquiry and the idea to accept the European Enlightenment, which brought Bengal Renaissance.

The College offers various courses during under graduation in both B.A. and B.Sc courses. The students can take admission in both general and Honours courses. The B.A. course includes Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Sciences, Philosophy, Education, Sociology while the B. Sc. Course offers Economics, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Statistics, Microbiology, Computer Science. The other major that can be taken Food Science and Quality Control. The B.Ed course is also taught in the Scottish Church College.

The college alumnae consists of many well-known names, which includes Swami Vivekananda, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Bajendra Nath Seal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Rev. Lal Behari Dey, Sitanath Tattwabhushan, Paramhansa Yogananda, A.C. bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tarak Nath Das, Satyendranath Dutta, Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, Sudhindranath Dutta, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Biraja Sankar Guha, Bishweswar Prasad Koirala, Prafulla Chandra Sen, Swami Gambhirananda, Ajit Kumar Panja, Mrinal Sen, Pankaj Mullick, Manna Dey, Suchitra Mitra, Mithun Chakraborty, Premendra Mitra, Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Rudraprasad Sengupta, Badal Sircar, Manoj Mitra, Sanjeev Chattopadhyaya, Samaresh Majumdar, Bani Basu, Bibhas Chaudhuri, Ajmal Hussain, Derek O` Brien, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik, Surya Sekhar Ganguly and many more to name.

(Last Updated on : 2/01/2009)
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