University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.&nbsp;Within India it is recognized as a &quot;Five-Star University&quot; and accredited &quot;A&quot; Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

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The University of Calcutta has secured the Fifth position among the Universities of India in the prestigious &quot;Indian University Ranking 2019&quot; list, released by the NIRF of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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It was established on 24 January 1857, and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and Western-style university. Its alumni and faculty include several heads of state, heads of government, social reformers, prominent artists, only academy award winner and Dirac medal winner in India, many Fellows of the Royal Society and five Nobel laureates as of 2019 which is highest in South Asia.

College/ university from which the degree was obtained	Abbreviation of the degree
University of Calcutta	B.Sc
University of Calcutta	M.Sc
Jadavpur University/ Bose Institute	PhD

Author(s)	Title	Name of the Journal	Volume	Page	Year
Tanmoy Halder, Gouranga Upadhyaya, Shuddhanali Roy, Ria Biswas, Arup Das, Angshuman Bagchi, Tanushree Agarwal, Sudipta Ray	Glycine rich proline rich protein from Sorghum bicolor serves as an antimicrobial protein implicated in plant defense response	Plant Molecular Biology	101	95-112	2019
RajeswariMukherjee, Abhishek Mukherjee, Subhendu Bandyopadhyay, Sritama Mukherjee, Sonali Sengupta, Sudipta Ray, and Arun Lahiri Majumder	Selective manipulation of the inositol metabolic pathway for induction of salt-tolerance in indica rice variety	Scientific Reports	9	5358	2019
PapriBasak, Shiny Sangma, Abhishek Mukherjee, Tanushree Agarwal, Sonali Sengupta, Sudipta Ray, and Arun Lahiri Majumder	Functional characterization of two myo-inositol-1- phosphate synthase (MIPS) gene promoters from the halophytic wild rice (Porteresiacoarctata).	Planta	248	1121-1141	2018