Asutosh College

Asutosh College is a non-government aided college in Kolkata, West Bengal, permanently affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It began in July 1916 as South Suburban College, founded by Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, and was renamed Asutosh College on 15 June 1924 after his death. It has been at Hazra Park since 1935. The UGC lists it under Sections 2(f) and 12(B) of its Act as a non-government aided college established in 1916 and teaching up to the master's degree. NAAC accredited it at grade A (CGPA 3.22 on a seven-point scale) in January 2017; that accreditation was valid until 22 January 2022, and no later cycle appears in the college's 2023-24 annual quality report.

The 2024 prospectus lists four-year B.A. (Honours) courses in Bengali, Communicative English, English, History, Journalism and Mass Communication, Philosophy, Political Science, Sanskrit and Sociology, and four-year B.Sc. (Honours) courses in sixteen subjects, among them Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Geography, Geology and Zoology. Three-year multidisciplinary B.A. and B.Sc. courses, a four-year BBA and B.Voc programmes in Software Development and in Industrial Aquaculture and Fisheries are also listed. The 2026-27 postgraduate fee notice covers two-year M.A. Bengali and M.Sc. in Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Geography, Applied Geology and Zoology. Undergraduate admission runs through the state's centralised admission portal (WBCAP); postgraduate admission is handled through the University of Calcutta.