Can you tell me if Jadavpur University is recognized by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)? Also tell me about the Ranking of the University?

Jadavpur University is a public state university in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was up graded to a University in 1955 and before 1955 the Diplomas awarded by the institute were not recognized by UGC / GOI as equivalent to a Degree.

Yes, Jadavpur University is recognized by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), UGC (University Grants Commission) and AIU (Association of Indian Universities).

Ranking

Jadavpur University has been ranked at 26th (2016) in India by The Week Magazine. It was ranked at 23rd by Career India in 2015.

It has been ranked as the 11th best Engineering College of India in the Edu-Rand Rankings of 2015. The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company and Rand Corporation, a non-profit American thinktank.

It has also been ranked 80 among the BRICS nations by TIMES Higher Education Rankings which is also seventh in India. It has also been ranked between 501-600 in the world rankings by THE.


Notable Alumni

Kajal Bandyopadhyay, poet
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, author and critic
Arundhati Bhattacharya,Graduate of Calcutta University first woman chairperson of State Bank of India
Suman Chakraborty, professor of mechanical engineering, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
Sugato Chakravarty, professor of consumer economics and management at Purdue University
Parambrata Chatterjee, actor
Swadesh Chatterjee, Padma Bhushan recipient, co-founder of the U.S.-India Friendship Council (Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, 1969)
Dipankar Chatterji, molecular biologist, chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Padma Shri and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
Amitava Chattopadhyay, professor of marketing at INSEAD
Samir Das, professor of computer science at Stony Brook University
K.S. Dasgupta, Director of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Somnath Dasgupta, former vice-chancellor of Assam University
Saroj Ghose, former director of Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Padma Bhushan recipient
Rituparno Ghosh, film director, actor
Debalina Majumder, documentary director
Neel Mukherjee, novelist
Ramaranjan Mukherji, writer, former chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Padma Shri recipient
Subir Raha, former Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Arnab Ray, blogger and author
Anupam Roy, singer and film music director
Manabendra Nath Roy, political activist

Contact Detail:
Jadavpur University
188, Raja S. C. Mallick Road,
Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
+91 33 2414 6666