Rabindra Bharati University

Rabindra Bharati University is a public research university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore.[2] It is located at the Tagore family home, Jorasanko Thakur Bari.

Rabindra Bharati University
TypePublic Research University
Established8 May 1962 (1962-05-08)
AccreditationNAAC
Academic affiliations
ChancellorGovernor of West Bengal
Vice-ChancellorSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
Academic staff
143[1]
Students7,036[1]
Undergraduates2,948[1]
Postgraduates3,446[1]
642[1]
Location
Kolkata
,
West Bengal
,
India

22°35′04″N 88°21′34″E
CampusUrban
Websitewww.rbu.ac.in

The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Performing Arts and Visual Arts under the Faculty of Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts.[3]

The current Vice-Chancellor of the university is Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury,[4] a noted social scientist and political commentator.

History
Jorasanko Thakur Bari
entrance of the administrative building

Tagore museum
Main article: Jorasanko Thakur Bari

The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the Tagore family, located at campus.[5] It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941.

Notable alumni

See also

References
  1. "NIRF 2020" (PDF). Rabindra Bharati University.
  2. "About University". Rabindra Bharati University. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  3. Prospectus (PDF), Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University, p. 2, retrieved 2 June 2018
  4. "The Planning Board". Rabindra Bharati University. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  5. "Rabindra Bharti Museum (Jorasanko Thakurbari)". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012.
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