Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College is an autonomous, fully residential college for men at Narendrapur, Kolkata, in South 24 Parganas district, run by the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur. The Ashrama, led by its founder-secretary Swami Lokeswarananda, opened the college on its 150-acre campus in July 1960, and the first students began classes that August. The college is affiliated to the University of Calcutta, which awards its degrees, and has had academic autonomy since 2008-09. It receives government grant-in-aid, is recognised by the UGC under Sections 2(f) and 12(B), and was accredited by NAAC with an A+ grade in 2021.

Undergraduates take a four-year honours or honours-with-research B.A. or B.Sc., majoring in one of 13 subjects such as Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Life Sciences, Economics, English, History and Sanskrit. Two-year master's programmes cover Chemistry, Computer Science, Data Science and AI, English, Physics, Sanskrit and Social Work, and the college is a University of Calcutta research centre for doctoral work. Places are filled through the college's own written test and/or interview. In NIRF 2025 it is ranked 24th in the college category.