St.Xavier's college to upgrade its undergraduate departments to PG studies

The college is also planning to introduce PhD courses in Bengali and English very soon followed by the commencement of doctoral studies in all the departments, the principal announced.

St. Xavier's College (Autonomous) Principal Father Dominic Savio at the 15th Convocation of the institute announced that it will be upgrading all its undergraduate departments to postgraduate studies within the next three years as part of its Vision 2025 roadmap. 

He said that the college is also planning to introduce PhD courses in Bengali and English very soon followed by the commencement of doctoral studies in all the departments. Savio said the construction of the new campus of the College near EM Bypass will begin shortly as part of Vision 2025 to be realised in three years.

"This is the third campus of the college, after its Kolkata campus and Raghabpur rural campus in South 24-Parganas district housing a state of the art hub. "It will house the Mass Communication and Multimedia department, the community radio station, a modern incubation centre for facilitating startups and modern research facilities for Science PG departments," he said.

The college is going to launch its 'School for Gender Studies' from the next month at the rural campus at Raghabpur.

"The aim is to empower girl students with knowledge and self-confidence and also to facilitate awareness among their family members, neighbours and others with regard to gender equality. The centre also has a plan to start with peer-reviewed journals on the subject both in English and Bengali with ISSN numbers," he said.

During the convocation, 9 PhD, 352 PG, 2,539 UG and 95 BEd students were awarded their degrees which was held at the campus, the first convocation held physically at an educational institution in the city in past two years.

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