THE ALIPURDUAR UNIVERSITY

Alipurduar University is a public university situated in Alipurduar, West Bengal, India. It was established as an affiliating university through an act of the West Bengal state legislature, notified in 2018. The institution's roots trace back to 1957, when Alipurduar College was formally established as an affiliating college of the University of Calcutta, following efforts by a local committee under the Refugee Rehabilitation and Development Programme to provide higher education to displaced people who had migrated to the Dooars area after India's partition in 1947. When the University of North Bengal was founded in 1962, the college's affiliation shifted to that university. In 2018, the West Bengal government decided to upgrade Alipurduar College into a full-fledged university, and it became active with the appointment of its first vice-chancellor, Mahendra Nath Roy, in 2020. Academically, the university offers postgraduate and PhD courses in subjects such as Bengali, English, Sanskrit, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Economics, Geography, Commerce, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, and Zoology. Its University College also provides undergraduate courses in Arts, Commerce, and Sciences.