About Rabindra Bharati University:

Rabindra Bharati University is the third oldest University amongst the five Universities that the city of Kolkata can boast of till now. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal, 1961. It was set up to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, in whose ancestral residence it found its first seat and where two of the three faculties of the University, those of Fine Arts and Visual Arts, are still located. With the eventual expansion of the University, the Faculty of Arts was added to its academic base in 1976 and a new campus on 56A, B. T. Road, Kolkata-50 was requisitioned to house it. This new campus has also a Tagore connection. Harakumar Tagore, the poet’s uncle, built a mansion called the Emerald Bower, and this building and its parklands, later acquired by the Government of West Bengal, finally became a complex of academic institutions among which this University has the central and larger share. The main administrative office is also situated at the Emerald Bower Campus. The University was reconstituted in 1981 by the Rabindra Bharati Act, 1981.

DDE – The Directorate of Distance Education, Rabindra Bharati University offers Correspondence Courses in:

1. Rabindra Sangeet for the degree of B.A. (Spl. Hons.)
2. Rabindra Sangeet and Vocal music for the degree of Master of Arts.
3. Bengali, English, History, Political Science, Sanskrit, Environmental Studies and Education for the degree of Master of Arts.
4. Master of Social Work (M.S.W.)
5. The Master of Social Work is a two year professional post graduate degree course designed to help students acquire theoretical insights and skills of the effective handling of jobs in the field of Social Welfare, Social Work and Social Development.

The syllabus for each subject in the relevant course shall be the same as in the formal stream for on-campus students. The examinations, shall be of the same standard.

Departments / Faculty Of Rabindra Bharati University

1.  Faculty of Arts

• Department of Bengali
• Department of English
• Department of Sanskrit
• Department of History
• Department of Philosophy
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Economics

2.  Faculty of Visual Arts

• Department of Education
• Department of Library and Information Science
• School of Vedic Studies
• Centre for Studies And Research On Tagore

3.  Faculty of Fine Arts

• Department of Rabindra Sangeet
• Department of Vocal Music
• Department of Instrumental Music
• Department of Dance
• Department of Drama
• Department of Musicology
• Department of Painting
• Department of Sculpture
• Department of Graphics (Print Making)
• Department of History of Art
• Department of Applied Art
• Department of Museology

Facilities

Employment Oriented Guidance Programme – In pursuance of the ideals of Rabindranath Tagore (‘Education has to be life-sustaining’), Rabindra Bharati University introduced in June, 1998 a self-financing guidance programme, the first of its kind among the Universities of West Bengal, for helping students succeed in various Competitive Examinations for employment and also in personality development.

Courses :

Under the Programme, guidance for the following courses is in progress at present

1. West Bengal Civil Services (WBCS) Examinations : Prelim. & Main.
2. UGC – NET and SLET for Humanities & Science.
3. School Service Commission Examination.
4. English for Communication.

Courses offered by Rabindra Bharati University:

Arts Courses

• B.A. (Hons) (Political Science)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons) (Classical (Vocal) Music)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons) (Instrumental Music)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons.) (Bengali)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons) (History)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons) (Philosophy)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons) (Rabindra Sangeet)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons) (Sanskrit)

  3 Years

• B.Ed.

  1 Years

• B.F.A. (Applied Arts)

  4 Years

• B.F.A. (Graphics)

  3 Years

• B.F.A. (Painting)

  3 Years

• B.F.A. (Sculpture)

  4 Years

• B.F.A. (History of Art)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons.) (Economics)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons.) (English)

  3 Years

• Bachelor of Library and Information Science (B.Lib.I.Sc.)

  1 Years

• B.Ed. (Special Education)

  2 Years

• M.A. (English)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Philosophy)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Political Science)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Bengali)

  2 Years

• M.A. (History)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Museology)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Music)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Musicology)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Sanskrit)

  2 Years

• M.F.A. (Applied Arts)

  2 Years

• M.F.A. (Graphics)

  2 Years

• M.F.A. (History of Arts)

  2 Years

• M.F.A. (Sculpture)

  2 Years

• M.Lib.Sc.

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Bengali)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Economics)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Education)

  1 Years

• M.Phil. (English)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (History)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Human Development)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Music)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Philosophy)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Political Science)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Sanskrit)

  2 Years

• M.Phil. (Women’s Studies)

  2 Years

• M.V.A (History of Art)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Economics)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Education)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Mathematics)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Sociology)

  2 Years

• M.F.A. (Painting)

  2 Years

• M.S.W.

  2 Years

• Ph.D. (Bengali)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Economics)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Education)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (English)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (History of Arts)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (History)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Music)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Painting)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Philosophy)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Political Science)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Sanskrit)

  3 Years

• Diploma in Bengali

  1 Years

• Diploma in Sanskrit

  3 Years

• Diploma in Tagore Literature

  1 Years

• Post Graduate Diploma in Adult Education & Development

  2 Years

• Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (PGDSW)

  1 Years

• Certificate Course in French

  1 Years

• Certificate in Hindi

   

• Certificate Course in Italian

  1 Years

• Certificate Course in Japanese

  1 Years

• Certificate course in Spanish

  1 Years

• Certificate in NGO Management

  6 Months

Mass Communications Courses

• M.A. (Journalism and Mass Communication)

  2 Years

• Ph.D. (Journalism and Mass Communication)

  3 Years

• Diploma in Acting in Different Media

  1 Years

Acting, Dance and Drama Courses

• B.A. (Hons) (Dance)

  3 Years

• B.A. (Hons) (Drama)

  3 Years

• M.A. (Dance)

  2 Years

• M.A. (Dramatics)

  2 Years

• Ph.D. (Dance)

  3 Years

• Ph.D. (Dramatics)

  3 Years

• Diploma in Dance

  3 Years

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