Jadavpur University

Jadavpur University is a public state-funded technical and research university whose main campus is at Jadavpur in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and it is placed in the 701-710 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.贾达珀大学是一所公立邦立技术研究型大学，主校区位于印度西孟加拉邦加尔各答的贾达珀，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 701-710 区间。

It was established on 25 July 1906 as the Bengal Technical Institute and was converted into Jadavpur University on 24 December 1955 with the agreement of the Government of India.该校于 1906 年 7 月 25 日以「孟加拉技术学院」之名创办，并于 1955 年 12 月 24 日在印度政府同意下改建为贾达珀大学。

Its OpenAlex record lists 46,367 research works and 1,942,538 citations, and it was ranked 9th among universities and 1st among state public universities in India in the 2025 National Institutional Ranking Framework.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 46,367 项、被引 1,942,538 次，并在 2025 年印度国家院校排名框架中位列大学类第 9、邦立公立大学第 1。

History

• On 25 July 1906 the Bengal Technical Institute was founded by the Society for the Promotion of Technical Education at 92 Upper Circular Road in Calcutta.1906 年 7 月 25 日，孟加拉技术学院由技术教育促进会在加尔各答上环路 92 号创办。

• The institute was created to give Bengal a modern technical education at a time when such teaching in the province was limited.该学院的设立，是为在技术教育尚属有限的年代为孟加拉提供现代技术教育。

• On 7 July 1910 the Society for the Promotion of Technical Education in Bengal merged with the National Council of Education, and the institute became the College of Engineering and Technology, Bengal.1910 年 7 月 7 日，孟加拉技术教育促进会与国民教育委员会合并，该学院随之成为「孟加拉工程与技术学院」。

• The National Council of Education had been formed during the Swadeshi movement, and the college was part of an effort to build Indian-run technical education under British rule.国民教育委员会在抵制英货运动期间成立，该学院是英治时期兴办由印度人自主管理技术教育努力的一部分。

• Teaching was conducted in Bengali as well as English in its early decades, a distinctive feature among Indian technical colleges of the period.其早期数十年间教学兼用孟加拉语与英语，这在当时的印度技术学院中较为少见。

• In 1947 the college came under the newly independent Indian state, and teaching continued in Bengali and English in the years before the university was created.1947 年，该学院归入新独立的印度国家，在大学设立之前的岁月中，教学继续兼用孟加拉语与英语。

• After independence the West Bengal government, with the concurrence of the Government of India, established Jadavpur University on 24 December 1955, taking over the college and its Jadavpur site.印度独立后，西孟加拉邦政府经印度政府同意，于 1955 年 12 月 24 日建立贾达珀大学，并接管该学院及其贾达珀校址。

• In 1964 the department of electronics and tele-communication engineering was formally named, in the same year that the ISIJU-1 computer project was completed.1964 年，电子与电信工程系正式定名，同年 ISIJU-1 计算机项目完成。

• In 1964 the university collaborated with the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata to develop ISIJU-1, the first second-generation digital computer built in India.1964 年，该校与加尔各答的印度统计研究所合作研制出 ISIJU-1，这是印度自制的第一台第二代数字计算机。

• The ISIJU-1 project was led by Samarendra Kumar Mitra of the Computing Machines and Electronics Laboratory and by Jnan Saran Chatterjee, founder head of the university's tele-communication engineering department.ISIJU-1 项目由计算机器与电子实验室的萨马伦德拉·库马尔·米特拉，以及该校电信工程系创始系主任杰南·萨兰·查特吉共同领导。

• The university's Yusuf Ali Institute of Technology is not its only research link: it awards doctoral degrees to scholars working at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Bose Institute.该校的研究联系不止于校内：它也为在萨哈核物理研究所与玻色研究所工作的学者授予博士学位。

• Doctoral degrees are also awarded to researchers at the School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata, the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute.该校还为加尔各答热带医学院、可变能量回旋加速器中心、印度化学生物学研究所与中央玻璃陶瓷研究所的研究人员授予博士学位。

• Related research bodies awarding degrees through the university include the Chittaranjan National Cancer Research Centre and the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.通过该校授予学位的相关研究机构还包括奇特拉詹詹国家癌症研究中心与 S. N. 玻色国家基础科学中心。

• On 1 January 2009 the university took over National Instruments Limited, a former public sector undertaking, on a 297-year lease to create its West Annexe campus.2009 年 1 月 1 日，该校以 297 年租期接管原公营企业国家仪器有限公司，用以设立「西附校区」。

• From 2014 the West Annexe campus has been used as a research hub, and about 40 per cent of its space is leased long-term to the Defence Research and Development Organisation.自 2014 年起，西附校区被用作研究枢纽，其约 40% 的空间长期租予国防研究与发展组织。

• In 2016 the Jagadish Chandra Bose Centre for Advanced Technology was established in collaboration between the university and the Defence Research and Development Organisation on that campus.2016 年，该校与国防研究与发展组织合作在该校区建立了贾加迪什·钱德拉·玻色高等技术中心。

• In 2018 the state government announced a five-acre land parcel in New Town, Kolkata for another campus, and the land was handed over in January 2021.2018 年，邦政府宣布在加尔各答新城划出五英亩土地用于另一校区，该地块于 2021 年 1 月完成移交。

• In July 2024 a committee was formed and detailed project report preparation began for the New Town campus, which is planned with research laboratories, a convention centre, an international hostel and an artificial intelligence laboratory.2024 年 7 月成立委员会并着手编制新城校区的详细项目报告，规划内容包括研究实验室、会议中心、国际宿舍与人工智能实验室。

• In 2014 the university was the scene of a series of protests following an assault on a female student, which drew nationwide attention and led to a state inquiry confirming the assault.2014 年，该校因一起女学生遭侵害事件爆发一系列抗议，引发全国关注，邦级调查亦确认了该侵害事实。

• The university is governed by an Executive Council together with the Court and Faculty Councils, and the Governor of West Bengal serves as its chancellor.该校由行政委员会会同校务会议与各学院委员会治理，西孟加拉邦邦长担任其校监。

• Its degrees are recognised by the University Grants Commission, which has identified it as an institution with potential for excellence, and it holds an A plus grade from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.其学位获大学拨款委员会认可，该委员会将其认定为具有卓越潜力的院校；该校并持有国家评估与鉴定委员会的 A+ 等级。

Academics

• As of 2023 the university had 37 departments and 21 schools of interdisciplinary studies, supported by nearly fifty centres of study.截至 2023 年，该校设 37 个系与 21 个跨学科研究学院，并有近五十个研究中心提供支持。

• Its academic range covers engineering, science, arts, architecture and interdisciplinary studies, with the main campus housing the core departments.其学科范围涵盖工程、科学、人文、建筑与跨学科研究，核心系所设在主校区。

• The Salt Lake campus in Bidhannagar Sector-III hosts five departments: construction engineering, instrumentation and electronics engineering, printing engineering, information technology and power engineering.位于比丹纳加第三区盐湖城的校区设五个系：建筑工程、仪器与电子工程、印刷工程、信息技术与电力工程。

• The Central Library at the Jadavpur campus occupies 41,500 square feet and holds 646,296 books, 80,700 bound journal volumes and 13,000 theses and dissertations.贾达珀校区的中央图书馆占地 41,500 平方英尺，藏有图书 646,296 册、期刊合订本 80,700 卷与学位论文 13,000 篇。

• The library subscribes to 1,159 print and 1,448 online journals and has access to about 3,000 more through library consortia, giving a total of roughly 11,000 journals.该馆订阅纸本期刊 1,159 种、在线期刊 1,448 种，并通过图书馆联盟另获约 3,000 种，期刊总量约 11,000 种。

• It also provides access to thirty databases, including Scopus and EconLit, and more than 10,000 electronic books as of 2018, and the Salt Lake campus has its own library of 6,500 square feet.该馆还提供 30 个数据库（包括 Scopus 与 EconLit）以及截至 2018 年逾一万种电子书；盐湖城校区另有 6,500 平方英尺的图书馆。

• The university's High Energy Physics Group, part of the nuclear and particle physics research centre, holds associate membership of the ALICE India collaboration at CERN.该校的高能物理组隶属核与粒子物理研究中心，持有欧洲核子研究中心 ALICE 印度合作组的准成员资格。

• In 2025 that group shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, an award carrying three million dollars.2025 年，该研究组共同获得基础物理学突破奖，该奖项附带 300 万美元奖金。

• The university collaborates with the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Defence Research and Development Organisation, and in 2023 two of its professors took part in the RESPOND planetary soft-landing project for ISRO.该校与印度空间研究组织及国防研究与发展组织合作，2023 年其两名教授参与了印度空间研究组织的 RESPOND 行星软着陆项目。

• Its researchers have worked on the Indian ballistic missile defence programme and the Tejas aircraft project, and key equipment has been developed at the university for those programmes.其研究人员参与了印度弹道导弹防御计划与「光辉」战斗机项目，相关关键设备亦在该校研制。

• The Global Change Programme at the university is active at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has worked with the Ministry of Environment on national communications to the climate convention.该校全球变化项目活跃于政府间气候变化专门委员会，并与环境部合作编写向气候公约提交的国家信息通报。

• Researchers in the School of Environmental Studies have documented arsenic in groundwater in India and Bangladesh, and the School of Automobile Engineering developed an alcohol-based car.其环境研究学院的研究人员记录了印度与孟加拉国地下水中的砷污染，汽车工程学院则研制出以酒精为燃料的汽车。

• The Design and Technology Centre laboratory has worked on cheminformatics and QSAR research since 2002, developing techniques and descriptors published as open tools.其设计与技术中心实验室自 2002 年起从事化学信息学与定量构效关系研究，并开发出以开放工具形式发布的方法与描述符。

• A laser animation laboratory opened in March 2011 under the School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design with assistance from the Indian American scientist Manick Sorcar.2011 年 3 月，在印裔美国科学家马尼克·索尔卡的协助下，该校照明科学、工程与设计学院开设了激光动画实验室。

• The university's Industry-Institute Partnership Cell provides consultancy and testing services and generated 13.5 crore rupees of revenue in 2022-23.该校的产业-院校合作中心提供咨询与检测服务，2022-23 年度创收 1.35 亿卢比。

• By 2023 that cell had worked with about 161 leading industries and organisations, including Tata Steel, RITES, the Airport Authority of India, the Kolkata Port Trust, Bajaj Electricals and Larsen and Toubro.到 2023 年，该中心已与约 161 家领先企业或机构合作，包括塔塔钢铁、RITES、印度机场管理局、加尔各答港务局、巴贾杰电气与拉森特博洛。

Campus

• The main campus at Jadavpur covers about sixty acres and contains the university's major engineering, arts, science and interdisciplinary departments.贾达珀主校区占地约六十英亩，容纳该校主要的工程、人文、科学及跨学科系所。

• It includes a six-acre sports complex with badminton, tennis and kabaddi courts, grounds for cricket and football, six canteens, a health centre, a gymnasium and a guest house.校区设有一处六英亩的体育综合区，包含羽毛球、网球与卡巴迪场地、板球与足球场，另有六个食堂、健康中心、健身房与招待所。

• Seven auditoriums serve the main campus, including the Gandhi Bhavan, the Triguna Sen Auditorium and the K. P. Basu Memorial Hall, together with an open air theatre seating about 3,000.主校区有七座礼堂，包括甘地楼、特里古纳·森礼堂与 K. P. 巴苏纪念堂，另有一座容纳约 3,000 人的露天剧场。

• The Salt Lake campus covers 26 acres in Bidhannagar Sector-III and also houses the eastern regional offices of the University Grants Commission and the inter-university consortium for atomic energy.盐湖城校区位于比丹纳加第三区，占地 26 英亩，并设有大学拨款委员会东部地区办事处与大学间原子能联盟。

• The West Annexe campus, taken over on a 297-year lease in 2009, is a research hub where the Defence Research and Development Organisation and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research operate.2009 年以 297 年租期接管的西附校区是研究枢纽，国防研究与发展组织与科学与工业研究理事会均在此开展活动。

• A regional centre of the National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board is also located on the West Annexe campus.国家造林与生态发展委员会的一个地区中心也设于西附校区。

• The New Town campus in Kolkata, for which land was handed over in January 2021, is planned to include research laboratories, a convention centre, an international hostel and an artificial intelligence laboratory.位于加尔各答新城、其土地于 2021 年 1 月移交的校区，规划建设研究实验室、会议中心、国际宿舍与人工智能实验室。

• The university's affiliated institutes include the J. D. Birla Institute and the Institute of Business Management, which run on independent campuses but award degrees through the university.其附属学院包括 J. D. 比尔拉学院与企业管理学院，二者在独立校区办学但通过该校授予学位。

• Jadavpur is a southern neighbourhood of Kolkata, and the campus lies within reach of the city's scientific institutions, hospitals and engineering industries.贾达珀是加尔各答南部的一个街区，校区距该市的科研机构、医院与工程产业均在可达范围之内。

• Campus facilities include banks, a post office, bookshops, a health centre and a placement and training office, making it a largely self-contained site.校园设施包括银行、邮局、书店、健康中心与就业培训办公室，使其成为相对自足的校区。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Jadavpur University is placed in the 701-710 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，贾达珀大学处于 701-710 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。^[1]

• It stands in the 1201-1400 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 1216th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1201-1400 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1216。

• It is placed in the 901-1000 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 901-1000 区间。

• In the 2025 National Institutional Ranking Framework it was 9th among Indian universities, 1st among state public universities, 18th among engineering institutions and 18th overall.在 2025 年国家院校排名框架中，该校位列印度大学类第 9、邦立公立大学第 1、工程类院校第 18，综合第 18。

• The Nature Index ranked it first among Indian universities and 22nd among all Indian institutions for research output in 2023-2024.2023-2024 年自然指数将其研究产出列为印度大学第一、全国机构第 22。

• Fifty-one of its scientists appeared in the 2025 Stanford University list of the top two per cent of scientists worldwide, the third highest number for any Indian university.其 51 名科学家入选 2025 年斯坦福大学全球前 2% 科学家榜单，入选人数在印度各大学中位居第三。

• OpenAlex attributes 46,367 works and 1,942,538 citations to the institution, giving a strong citation base for a state university in eastern India.OpenAlex 记录该校 46,367 项成果与 1,942,538 次被引，对印度东部一所邦立大学而言被引基础较强。

• Its recognition by the University Grants Commission as an institution with potential for excellence and its NAAC A plus grade are the principal national quality marks it holds.其被大学拨款委员会认定为具有卓越潜力院校，以及持有的 NAAC A+ 等级，是其主要的国内质量标志。

• In 2013 it was ranked 47th in the Times Higher Education list of the hundred best universities in the BRICS and emerging economies.2013 年，该校在泰晤士高等教育「金砖与新兴经济体百佳大学」榜单中位列第 47。

• The URAP research laboratory ranked it tenth in India in its 2012-13 report on academic indicators.大学学术表现排名研究实验室在其 2012-13 年基于学术指标的报告中把该校列为印度第 10。

Student life

• Student life centres on the Jadavpur campus, where departmental societies, seven auditoriums and an open air theatre host a dense calendar of academic and cultural events.学生生活以贾达珀校区为中心，各系学会、七座礼堂与一座露天剧场承办密集的学术与文化活动。

• The six-acre sports complex supports badminton, tennis, kabaddi, cricket and football, and the university has an amenities centre, gymnasium and health centre for students.六英亩的体育综合区支持羽毛球、网球、卡巴迪、板球与足球运动，学校还设有学生生活配套中心、健身房与健康中心。

• The university's Innovation Council, established in 2018, promotes start-ups through awareness programmes, workshops and visits to industries and start-up companies.该校创新委员会成立于 2018 年，通过宣讲、工作坊以及赴企业与初创公司参访来推动创业。

• Four memoranda were signed with companies including Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Haldia Petrochemicals and Nexgen Plasma to provide student internships.该校与加登里奇造船工程公司、哈尔迪亚石化与 Nexgen Plasma 等企业签署四项备忘录，为学生提供实习。

• The university hosted a Hult Prize event and took part in the Bengal Global Business Summit 2022 and the Smart India Hackathon, and ran the SERB-INAE Hackathon with about a hundred participants from across India.该校曾举办霍特奖活动，并参与 2022 年孟加拉全球商业峰会与「智慧印度黑客马拉松」，还举办了有印度各地约百人参加的 SERB-INAE 黑客马拉松。

• Student and faculty research activity is closely tied to Kolkata's scientific institutions, many of which are affiliated for doctoral awards through the university.其师生研究活动与加尔各答的科研机构紧密相连，其中许多机构通过该校授予博士学位。

• In 2014 student protests over an assault on a fellow student became a national issue, and the student body engaged directly with the chancellor and the state government.2014 年，学生因一名同学遭侵害而发起的抗议成为全国性议题，学生群体直接与校监及邦政府交涉。

• The university has served as a centre of engineering and science student culture in eastern India, with generations of graduates moving into industry, academia and the civil service.该校长期作为印度东部工程与理科学生文化的中心，多代毕业生进入产业界、学术界与公职体系。

• Because its campuses are spread across Jadavpur, Salt Lake and the West Annexe, students commute between sites for teaching and research work.由于其校区分布于贾达珀、盐湖城与西附校区，学生在各校区之间通勤上课与从事研究。

Notable people

• Jnan Saran Chatterjee was the founder head of the university's department of tele-communication engineering and led the ISIJU-1 computer project from the university side.杰南·萨兰·查特吉是该大学电信工程系的创始系主任，并从学校一方主导了 ISIJU-1 计算机项目。

• Samarendra Kumar Mitra of the Indian Statistical Institute led the ISIJU-1 project, the first second-generation digital computer developed in India.印度统计研究所的萨马伦德拉·库马尔·米特拉领导了 ISIJU-1 项目，这是印度研制的第一台第二代数字计算机。

• Biswajit Nag, a lecturer in the university's electronics and tele-communication engineering department, was responsible for the logic design and memory systems of the ISIJU-1.该校电子与电信工程系的讲师比斯瓦吉特·纳格负责 ISIJU-1 的逻辑设计与主存系统。

• Manick Sorcar, an Indian American engineer and artist, assisted in establishing the laser animation laboratory under the School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design in 2011.印裔美国工程师与艺术家马尼克·索尔卡于 2011 年协助在照明科学、工程与设计学院建立激光动画实验室。

• The university's high energy physics group includes researchers who shared the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ALICE experiment at CERN.该校高能物理组的研究人员因对欧洲核子研究中心 ALICE 实验的贡献，共同获得 2025 年基础物理学突破奖。

• Faculty in the Global Change Programme have contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and to India's national communications under the climate convention.其全球变化项目的教师为政府间气候变化专门委员会的工作以及印度在气候公约下的国家信息通报作出了贡献。

• The establishment of the West Annexe research hub brought scientists from the Defence Research and Development Organisation and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research onto the campus as research collaborators.西附研究枢纽的建立，使国防研究与发展组织与科学与工业研究理事会的科研人员以研究合作者身份进入该校区。

• The Governor of West Bengal serves as chancellor of the university ex officio, an arrangement common to state universities in India.西孟加拉邦邦长依职权担任该校校监，这是印度邦立大学常见的安排。

• Alumni of the university are found in Indian engineering industries, national research laboratories and the civil service, reflecting its technical and research mission.该校校友分布于印度工程产业、国家研究实验室与公职体系，反映其技术与研究的办学使命。

• Its faculty members have led research in nuclear and particle physics, environmental studies, automobile engineering and cheminformatics.其教师主导了核与粒子物理、环境研究、汽车工程与化学信息学等方向的研究。