ST. XAVIER’S COLLEGE(Autonomous) , KOLKATA
A Christian Minority Jesuit Higher Educational Institution, St. Xavier's was founded in 1860 by a Catholic Minority Religious body, the Society of Jesus, and was affiliated to Calcutta University in 1862. The college was granted autonomy in 2006 and was awarded the status of College with Potential for Excellence in the same year by UGC. The college received College of Excellence status in 2014 followed by the College with a Special Heritage Status in 2015. It received the highest ever NAAC rating of A++ with 3.77 CGPA. St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, has secured the 5th rank in India Ranking 2023 for colleges, conducted by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) under Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. Xavier's College offers UG and PG courses under five faculties: Arts, Science, Commerce, Business Administration, and Education. It also offers various professional certificate and diploma courses under Career Oriented Programmes and Computer Centre. St. Xavier's offers Ph.D. in Physics, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Commerce, English, Computer Science, Political Science, Economics and Bengali. Xavier's College (Autonomous) has been certified as meeting the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 on 3rd July 2019. New feathers get added year after year to the cap of this great institution whose only objective is “for the Greater Glory of God”.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
The Department of Commerce at St. Xavier’s College enjoys a pre-eminent status for the excellence of its teaching in this dynamic discipline. It is ranked alongside the highly-acclaimed departments in Commerce among the undergraduate colleges of this country. Our academic program is of the highest caliber and aims at transforming ideas and thoughts into applications and achievements. The programme is designed to enable and empower students to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to analyze and synthesize the contemporary realities of the domain of business. It encourages students to explore the world of technology and digitization in the relevant field. Further, this course is designed to help cultivating entrepreneurial mindset and skills. The diverse student structure together with dedicated faculties contributes enormously to sustain the efficiency of the Department. Apart from our committed faculty members and support staff, we are proud of our enthusiastic, vibrant, and academically brilliant students.
Simultaneously, the students are also encouraged to participate in social work and be aware of the social realities and challenges faced by this country. Our unique and possibly one of its kind “college to village and village to college” (’Prayas’) project was devised to achieve this objective. Additionally, the foundation course on inter-religious studies will surely build up the morale of the students to mutually appreciate and respect each other. Our students fare very well in their CA, CMA and CS examinations as well as in all the other competitive entrance examinations like CAT, XAT, MAT, to name a few. They also actively participate in extracurricular activities, attend various national and international fests organized by premier institutions across the country.
Our emphasis has always been on the overall development of the students keeping in line with our motto “Nihil Ultra”. This collaborative effort will necessarily produce human beings for others and emerge as agents of change and transformation for the benefit of the society.
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Department of Management Studies, with the aim to provide standard of excellence in order to encourage students to integrate with the global community, was established in 2002 with BBA course. The department aspires to be a department of global excellence in the field of management to produce highly qualified and value-oriented managers. The department is known as BMS because of change in nomenclature following the University Grants Commission template on Under Graduate courses under Choice Based Credit System and approved by the University of Calcutta. It is effective for students enrolled from the academic session 2017-18.
The curriculum is flexible, broad and gives students the opportunity to develop an academic program that is tailored to their ambitions and interests. The management education at the under graduate level is intended to serve as grooming ground for the future managers. This will make a student more receptive to the advanced level of theory and practice of management science. Students will graduate with practical knowledge and skills that will help them set the highest possible standards in the corporate environment.
The department ensures a student-driven, participative E-learning environment and hosts fully equipped class rooms and lab facilities for focused discussions, interactive study sessions, presentation, and case studies to enrich the learner’s experience. It takes pride in its professional and highly qualified faculty, modern infrastructure, technology, and resources- in the fields of Human Resources, Marketing, Finance IT, Business and Event Management. To enhance employability of students, the department has introduced full-fledged internship programme for the students
An over-view of departmental activities
- Seminars - Conducts national and international seminars based on various management and other general topics.
- Webinars.
- Invited Lectures - Invited lectures are conducted based on the topics on recent developments in management.
- Management Fest - The department conducts management fest Xavier’s Management Convention (XMC) every year. The major events include Best Manager, Finance, Marketing, HR-IR-PR, Strategic Management, Binge-Con, and Sports Management.
- Release of annual Magazine - Every year department releases magazine “ The X-Ecutive”
- Seminars and Webinar series in collaboration with other reputed colleges.
THE INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC), ST. XAVIER’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) KOLKATA
The IQAC, chaired by the Principal Rev. Dr. Dominic Savio, SJ, focuses on the holistic development of the College by:
- Ensuring timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic, administrative, and financial tasks.
- The relevance and quality of academic and research Programmes.
- Equitable access to and affordability of academic Programmes for various sections of society.
- Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
- The credibility of evaluation procedures.
- Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and functioning of the support structure and services.
- Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.