West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to Twitter to express satisfaction at Calcutta University being ranked Number 1 among the central and state-aided public universities in India via the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2022.
“Glad to study that the Calcutta University has been ranked 1st in India among all Central and State aided public Universitites and Institues by using Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2022,” she wrote.
Calcutta University has been awarded the 14th rank in the total work in the sub-category of ‘Decent Work and Economic Growth’.
“In sub-category ‘Decent Work and Economic Growth’, CU has been awarded Global Rank 14 th. Congratulations to CU authorities, faculties, researchers, students,” the CM added.
Calcutta University was once installed on January 24, 1857 and is the first multidisciplinary and Western-style group in Asia. It is authorised with an ‘A’ grade through NAAC.
CU has 14 campuses throughout Kolkata and its suburbs and 151 schools and 21 ainstitutes are affliated with it. It was once ranked fourth amongst public universities as per the NIRF Ranking 2021.
As of 2019, Calcutta University alumni and school include several heads of nation and government, social reformers, distinguished artists, the solely Indian Academy award winner and Dirac medal winner, many Fellows of the Royal Society, and five Nobel laureates — the highest variety in South Asia — as of 2019.
The 5 Nobel Prize winners who studied at CU are — Ronald Ross, Rabindranath Tagore, CV Raman, Amartya Sen, and Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee.
