Seth Anandram Jaipuria college in North Kolkata is famed for its immensity. With 5000 plus students and more than 200 teachers and non-teaching staff, it is one of the few colleges in West Bengal running in three shifts and catering to all three streams of science, Arts and Commerce. Housed in one of the spacious buildings of erstwhile Shovabazar Rajbari, it claims 18 Laboratories, a free WIFI zone, a Gymnasium, an audio-visual room, smart classes, Library and Reading room and a Boardroom. The greenery is not in plenty but a curated lawn and small stretches of garden are well in place.

With Rs. 1,75,83,333.00 received as RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchattar Shiksha Abhiyan) grant, process is on to install two lifts of 10 and 16 passenger-capacity, promote vertical expansion of the building and harness alternative energy resource through solar panels on roof top. Established in 1945 and inaugurated by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on 22nd December, the institution has traversed a long way towards reaching a glorious 75 in the year 2020. Padma Bhushan Seth Mangturam Jaipuria established the college in memory of his father Seth Anandram Jaipuria as a service to higher education in pre-independent India. GPO Kolkata has expressed their wish to honour this journey by issuing a commemorative stamp this year. Mother Teresa International Award Committee (under the aegis of All India Minority and Weaker Sections Council) has conferred the ‘Mother Teresa International Award’ as the Best College of the year 2018. As per ranking by Edu World (an ISO certified Education Service Provider based in Bangalore) of 100 best colleges in India, (published in Education World, a Human Development Magazine, May 2020) Jaipuria College achieved a pride of place as the 55th top college in India and the 11th best in Kolkata.

The array of subjects offered allows flexibility and freedom to our students. There are seven Departments in B.Sc. (Honours), nine Departments in B.A. (Honours) and B.Com. (Honours) spanning three shifts. Commerce is the most expansive department spanning all three shifts and allowing maximum number of student - intake. B.A. General and B.Com. General courses are also available in the Morning and Evening shifts respectively.

All undergraduate courses are framed in the semester mode under the CBCS or Choice Based Credit System introduced in 2018. Promoted by UGC, it is essentially a student centric project for uniformity in higher education all over the country and equipping a student to compete at par with other states at the national level. The programme is skill-enhancing and job-oriented with a spectrum of disciplines to choose from. Marks are allotted for Attendance, Tutorials and Internal Assessment, and the stipulations in each case are stringent and mandatory.