Colleges

JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY

Facilities

Hostel Facilities

There are 13 (4 for Girls and 9 for Boys) hostels with provision for accommodating over 1600 students. Efforts are being made for extension of the existing buildings and construction of new buildings for students accommodation.

Hostel Mess is conducted by the Students Mess Committee under the guidance of the Superintendent of the respective hostel. The Main Hostel complex is situated outside the campus.
At the Main Hostel complex and the Ladies Hostel complex and beside Old P.G. Hostel there are private canteens supervised by the Students Committee.

We have an exclusive hostel for Research Scholars.

Guest House

Commencement of new guest house building

Guest House is in operation from 26.08.2003

Details of accommodation and facilities

  • 90 double bed rooms.
  • 3 deluxe rooms ( double bed with A.C.).
  • 2 single rooms.

Details of organizational structure, arrangement and control

  • Catering - Leased out to a contract
  • Cleaning & maintenance - Do
  • Security - Do
  • Booking & Registration Managed by the University.

    Library

    Central Library

    The University Central Library is housed in a three-storied building on the campus. Its shelf space and working space total 36,000 sq. ft.,(approx) and is being extended by new construction of Annex Building 5,500 sq. ft. (approx.). Seven reading rooms, carrels, and an alcove for bound volumes of journals provide sitting accommodation for 700 readers. There is a separate library on the Second Campus at Salt Lake. The space of the Salt Lake campus Library is 6,500sq. ft. (approx.).

    Digital Library

    Under the potential for excellence programme of UGC, Centre for Digital Library has been established in November 2003 in the first floor of the new annex building of the Central Library. The digital Library has a learning Resource Centre (LRC) and a reading room. The Digital Library Management Software Dspace, developed by MIT, USA and Hewlett Packard has been installed. It is an open source software and has been customized to suit our requirements. Dspace accepts all forms of digital materials including text, images, video and audio files. The Institutional Repository is being built in the Digital Library Faculty wise & Department wise.

    Departmental Library

    There are individual libraries associated with departments, schools and centres which cater to specific subject oriented requirments.

    Health Centre

    The University Health Centre is located in the campus within easy reach of all the students. It is attended by a fulltime Medical Superintendent and part-time qualified Specialists in General Medicine, Eye, E.N.T., Skin, Dental and Pathology and a qualified part time Lady Doctor. All the Specialists visit the Centre for two hours for three days in a week and the Lady Doctor attends the Centre on all working days for three hours a day. Students need to visit the Centre and get their Health Card prepared by producing their fees book and a passport-size photograph. Consultation and Medicines are all free of cost.

    Nature of facilities available

    Inpatient, Outpatient, Ambulance, Emergency care facility, etc.