College Overview
Accreditation & Other Recognition
The College was accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in 2006 with Grade A and re-accredited in 2014 & 2021 with Grade A
The College was selected as ‘College with potential for excellence’ by UGC in 2010
- CPE Phase I - The College received a grant of 1 crore under CPE Phase I in 2010, which was the maximum amount to be received by any college.
- CPE Phase II - The College was again selected for CPE Phase II in 2016. Under this the college received a grant of 1.5 crore which once again was the maximum amount to be received by any college. Lady Brabourne College was the only college in West Bengal to receive this honour.
The ‘Rashtriya Uchhatar Shiksha Abhiyan’ grant was received by the College in 2015.
The College was recognized for the DBT-STAR College Program by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India for strengthening of UG Science in 2012 and again in 2017.
The Department of Microbiology had been selected for the BOOST II Programme (Biotechnology based Opportunities Offered to Science & Technology) in 2014 by the Department of Science & Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal for improvement of research based facility and infrastructure in Post Graduate Department of the College.
Departments of Botany, Chemistry and Zoology were selected for the BOOST I Programme (Biotechnology based Opportunities Offered to Science & Technology) in 2017 by the Department of Science & Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal for improvement of research based facility and infrastructure in these Under Graduate Departments of the College. The three departments have now started with the Post Graduate courses since 2016.
Post Graduate Departments of Bengali, English, Geography, Microbiology, Mathematics and Physics were given approval as Advanced Research Centres by the University of Calcutta, in 2014.
Lady Brabourne College received the Education Excellence Award in 2018 from Zee 24 Ghanta.
Lady Brabourne College has been ranked 14th among all the Colleges in India and 1st among all Colleges in West Bengal by Education World, an International Education Portal, 2019.