Academics
Admission to Jadavpur University is highly competitive, as it consistently ranks amongst the best colleges in India.
For admissions to the Engineering Faculty at the undergraduate level, students are admitted through the WBJEE, an entrance examination open to students from all over India. Unlike in a large number of states, there is no domicile quota in JU as well as for the remaining engineering colleges admitting students through the WBJEE. Postgraduate students in engineering are admitted through GATE. Admission to the Arts and Science Faculties is by means of individual examinations for each of the departments at the undergraduate as well as the postgraduate levels. Weight age is given to marks obtained at the higher secondary level for undergraduate admissions at the undergraduate level for postgraduate level.
- Schools and Centres of Excellence
To facilitate interdisciplinary learning and research in diverse fields, there are a number of schools and centre for studies. Some of the major research ventures undertaken by these schools include the pioneering work done by the School of Environmental Studies in highlighting the presence of arsenic in groundwater in countries like India and Bangladesh and the development of the first alcohol based car by the School of Automobile Engineering.
- The interdisciplinary schools in the university are
- School of Cognitive Science
- School of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- School of Advanced Studies on Industrial Pollution Control Engineering
- School of Automobile Engineering
- School of Applied Mathematics
- School of Applied Chemistry
- School of Agroecology
- School of Anthropology
- School of Bioscience Engineering
- School of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Business Administration
- School of Cultural Texts and Records
- School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
- School of Chemiinformatics
- School of Design
- School of Disaster Science & Management
- School of Education Technology
- School of Economics
- School of Energy Studies
- School of Environmental Radiation and Archaeological Sciences
- School of Environmental Studies
- School of Food & Nutrition Science
- School of Governance Studies
- School of Geophysics
- School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design
- School of International Relations and Strategic Studies
- School of International Development Studies
- School of Laser Science and Engineering
- School of Languages
- School of Materials Science and Nano Technology
- School of Microtechnology
- School of Mechatronics
- School of Microbiology
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- School of Mobile Computing and Communication
- School of Natural Product Studies
- School of Nuclear Studies and Application
- School of Oceanography
- School of Pharmacology
- School of Public Administration
- School of Sociology
- School of Space Technology
- School of Stealth Technology
- School of Science and Technology Studies
- School of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management
- School of Water Resources Engineering
- School of Wildlife Ecology
- School of Gender Studies
- School of Visual Technology
The centres for studies are usually directly associated with a particular department and the centres in Jadavpur University are:
- Centre for African Literatures & Culture
- Centre on Ambedkar Studies
- Aurobindo Study Centre
- Centre for Experiments in Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Centre for Computer Aided Design
- Centre for Canadian Studies
- Centre for Condensed Matter Physics Research
- Centre for Counselling Services and Studies in Self Development
- C.V. Raman Centre for Music and Physics
- Centre for Medicinal Food and Applied Nutrition
- Centre for Distributed Computing
- Centre for Development Studies
- Centre for European Studies
- Centre for Embedded System in Instrumentation
- Hariprasanna Biswas Centre for Indo-China Cultural Studies
- Centre for Human Resources Management & Planning
- Center for Education Research and Development
- Centre for IC Design and Fabrication
- Centre for Indology
- Centre for Knowledge Based System
- Centre for Latin American Literature & Culture
- Centre for Modern Language Studies
- Centre for Marxian Studies
- Centre for Mathematical Biology & Ecology
- Centre for Micro-Processor Application
- Centre for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research
- Centre for Natural Resource Management and Development
- Centre for Plasma Studies
- Centre for Quantitative Science
- Centre for Quality Construction
- Centre for Quality Management System
- Centre for Refugee Studies
- Centre for Relativity and Cosmology Research
- Centre for Surface Chemistry
- Centre for Statistics
- Swami Vivekananda Centre for Technical Manpower Development
- Centre for Theatre Studies
- Centre for Translation of Indian Literature's
- Centre for Transportation Studies
- Centre for Urban Studies and Management
- Centre for Welding Technology
- Center for Forest Resources and Conservation
- Centre for Yoga
- V. Ravi Chandran Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences
- IMPACT
In March 2011, Indian American scientist Manick Sorcar assisted in the opening of a one-of-a-kind laser animation lab under the School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design.
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