Seacom Skills University

Seacom Skills University is a private university in Birbhum district of West Bengal, established under the Seacom Skills University Act, 2014 (West Bengal Act VI of 2014), which the Kolkata Gazette published on 10 April 2014. The Act was passed for an institution promoted by the Seacom Marine College trust. The campus at Kendradangal, on the Bolpur-Suri state highway near Santiniketan, covers 50 acres. According to the university, teaching began in 2014 with general and engineering streams, the Schools of Agriculture and Pharmacy followed in 2017, the School of Legal Studies in 2019, and medical technology courses were added later. The UGC's consolidated list of private universities includes it, and a second campus operates at Sankrail in Howrah.

Teaching is organised in schools, among them Engineering, Commerce and Management Studies, Pharmacy, Legal Studies, Agriculture, Bioscience, Computer Applications, Science, Language and Literature, Humanities, Visual Arts, Social Science and Paramedical and Health Science. The course list includes B.Tech and M.Tech in mechanical, civil, electrical and computer science streams, BBA, B.Com, BHM and MBA, B.Pharm and D.Pharm, the five-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and LL.M., agriculture degrees, BCA and MCA, and Ph.D. programmes. Engineering seats are allotted through state counselling on WBJEE and WBJELET scores, while the other schools admit on merit. Foreign MoU partners named by the university include George Mason University, Fayetteville State University, Near East University and Asia University.