IISER, Kolkata

Short description: Educational Institute in West Bengal

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

Motto| Towards Excellence in Science
Type| Public university
Established| 2006; 20 years ago (2006)

Academic affiliations

| Institute of National Importance
Budget| ₹115.99 crore (US$16 million)
(FY2021–22 est.)[1]
Chairman| Arvind Natu[2]
Provost| Soumitro Banerjee
Dean| Balaram Mukhopadhyay
Director| Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Academic staff

| 136 (2023)[1]
Students| 1,572 (2023)[1]
Undergraduates| 1,046 (2023)[1]
Postgraduates| 35 (2023)[1]

Doctoral students

| 491 (2023)[1]
Location|

Mohanpur, Haringhata, West Bengal

India

[ ⚑ ] : 22°57′50″N 88°31′28″E﻿ / ﻿22.9638°N 88.5245°E﻿ / 22.9638; 88.5245
Campus| Rural, 201 acres (81 ha)
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Former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh laying the foundation stone for Kolkata Campus of the Institute

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (known as IISERK or IISER KOLKATA) is an autonomous institute in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, India. It was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 2006 and promoted to the status of an Institute of National Importance in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act.[3] It is one of seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and was one of the first IISERs to be established along with IISER Pune. It is considered to be one of the leading institutes of India in terms of research output, and was ranked fourth among the academic institutions in India by the Nature Index (compiled by Nature Research).[4]

## Contents

* 1 UG Admissions
* 2 Organisation
* 3 Events
* 4 Rankings
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## UG Admissions

Entrance of IISER, Kolkata

## Organisation

Administrative Building of IISER, Kolkata in Kalyani campus

The institute hosts the multi-institutional Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India[5] (CESSI) with participating scientists from ISRO and other astronomy institutes and is involved in research associated with national space science missions. Other centres[6] include the Centre for Advanced Functional Materials, National Centre for High Pressure Studies and a Centre for Climate and Environment Studies. It also has a field station for ecological, environmental and field studies, a greenhouse, a broadband seismological observatory. The institute jointly runs the Göttingen-Kolkata: Open shell systems (G-KOSS) in fundamentals of molecular spintronics with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.[7] The institute also hosts the Dirac Supercomputer, which was inaugurated in April 2019. The performance of this supercomputing facility is 78.8 Teraflops.[8]

## Events

The college organizes a major annual festival, Inquivesta,[9] which is promoted as one of the first and the biggest science festivals of the country.[10]

Inquivesta sees a footfall of 1000+, and has been visited by artists such as Zakir Khan (comedian), Sapan Verma, Nalayak (band) and Anubhav Singh Bassi. It has also received brands such as Baskin-Robbins and Domino's Pizza as its previous partners [11][12] IISER Kolkata has also been hosting VIJYOSHI (the national science camp), along with IISc Bangalore and the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, since 2014.[13]

The institute also has an E-Cell [14] for promoting an entrepreneurial culture in the student body.

## Rankings

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Internationally, the institute was ranked 251–300 among institutes in emerging economies, by the Times Higher Education's "Emerging Economies University Rankings 2022".[15]

In India, the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked the institute 40 overall in 2022,[16] and 32 among research institutes.[17]

## See also

* List of universities in India
* List of autonomous higher education institutes in India
* List of Institutes of National Importance

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "NIRF 2023". IISER Kolkata. https://www.iiserkol.ac.in/media/filer_public/3f/16/3f1697e8-80cf-4285-abcd-e107711655dd/nirf-2023-overall-data.pdf.
2. ↑ "Dr. Arvind Natu Nominated as Chair of Board of Governors of IISER Kolkata". sakaltimes.com. 20 March 2019. http://www.sakaltimes.com/pune/prof-arvind-natu-nominated-new-chairman-bog-iiser-kolkata-33109.
3. ↑ "NIT Amendment Act, 2012". http://www.iiserkol.ac.in/images/iiserk/announcements/nit_amendment_act_2012.pdf.
4. ↑ "2022 tables: Institutions - academic | Annual tables | Nature Index". https://www.nature.com/nature-index/annual-tables/2022/institution/academic/all/countries-India.
5. ↑ "Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India". http://www.cessi.in/.
6. ↑ "Centres at IISER Kolkata". https://www.iiserkol.ac.in/web/en/research/centers-iiser-kolkata/#gsc.tab=0.
7. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Göttingen-Kolkata: G-KOSS. Uni-goettingen.de (2013-07-07). Retrieved on 2013-10-09.
8. ↑ "Dirac Supercomputer". https://www.iiserkol.ac.in/~dirac/index.html.
9. ↑ "Inquivesta Home Page". Inquivesta.iiserkol.ac.in. http://www.inquivesta.iiserkol.ac.in/.
10. ↑ https://www.inquivesta.com/brochure.html [bare URL]
11. ↑ "Home". Inquivesta.com. https://www.inquivesta.com/brochure.html.
12. ↑ "Sponsors". Inquivesta.com. https://www.inquivesta.com/sponsors.html.
13. ↑ "Vijyoshi 2019". https://vijyoshi.iiserkol.ac.in/.
14. ↑ "E-Cell IISERK Home Page". ecelliiserk.com. https://ecelliiserk.com/.
15. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Rankings_THES_E_2022`
16. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Rankings_NIRF_O_2022`
17. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Rankings_NIRF_R_2022`

## External links

* Official website

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