The University of Burdwan (also known as Burdwan University or B. U.) is a public university in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It was established by the West Bengal Government as a teaching and affiliating university on 15 June 1960 with six graduate departments and 30 undergraduate colleges spread over three districts that come under the jurisdiction of the university. The university currently offers more than 30 undergraduate and 66 postgraduate courses
History Of University
The last maharaja of Burdwan, Udaychand Mahtab, left the entire property of Burdwan to the government of West Bengal after the zamindari system ended in the 1950s. The then chief minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy took the initiative of establishing a university at the premises of the palace of the maharaja. Thus the university was established in 1960.Sukumar Sen (ICS) was the first vice-chancellor. The university began with the humanities division, with the science and engineering courses included afterwards
History Of Commerce Department
The Department of Commerce of the University of Burdwan started functioning from the academic session, 1963-65. The classes for the first batch of students started from February 1964 though classes in other departments started from November, 1963. The Department had a faculty of three teachers and two non-teaching employees when it started functioning. In the first batch there were about 60 students. At that time commerce education at the undergraduate level was not very popular. B.Com. Honours Course was taught only in a few colleges. B.Com. Pass Course (now called General Course) was taught in most of the colleges which had affiliation in commerce. Starting from this situation the objective of the newly set up Department of Commerce was to promote the spread of commerce education not only at the post graduate level but also at the undergraduate level.
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