Dinabandhu Andrews College

Dinabandhu Andrews College

Type	Government sponsored
Established	1956
Affiliation	University of Calcutta, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology for BBA Honours
Students	5000
Location	Garia 22°28′06.80″N 88°22′33.14″E
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.dacollege.org/

Dinabandhu Andrews College(Govt. Sponsored) is located in Garia, South 24 Parganas and it is affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

This Co-educational college has nearly 5000 students and offers Courses in 15 subjects in Science, Arts and Commerce stream along with General courses. Not only UG courses, this college also offers post graduation in subjects like Electronics and Zoology. It is considered as a good college in Kolkata now-a-days for its infrastructure & results throughout the past few years.

History

Dinabandhu Andrews College was established in the year 1956 and the college is named after freedom fighter Rev. Charles Freer Andrews.

The college was constituted at the fringe of the semi-urban zone of South 24 Parganas district with an aim to disseminate the scope of higher education to a huge number of children of the displaced persons from erstwhile East Pakistan, presently Bangladesh.

Departments

• Physics: B.Sc (Hons.)
• Chemistry: B.Sc (Hons.)
• Mathematics: B.Sc (Hons.)
• Electronics: B.Sc (Hons.), M.Sc
• Economics: B.Sc (Hons.)
• Botany: B.Sc (Hons.)
• Zoology: B.Sc (Hons.), M.Sc
• Microbiology: B.Sc (Hons.)
• Sericulture: B.Sc (Hons.)
• Accounting & Finance: B.Com (Hons.)
• Bengali: B.A (Hons.)
• English: B.A (Hons.)
• History: B.A (Hons.)
• Political Science*: B.A (Hons.)
• Philosophy: B.A (Hons.)
• English: B.A (Hons.)