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Located in Kolkata, St. Xavier's College is named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th century, who traveled to India. Read Bio

St. Xavier's College

Established: 16th of January, 1860 Location: Kolkata - 700 016, West Bengal

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Is Facebook leading to narcissist outlook ?

By Anjita Chowdhury-St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

Posted May 13th 2013 5:00AM

Gone are the days when one clicked pictures to capture a memory, hold on to lovely moments or simply smile at the past days. Now ...

Chat apps v/s Sms

By Anjita Chowdhury-St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

Posted May 8th 2013 8:29AM

Remember the time when people wrote letters and telegrams to each other? Seems ancient right? Why wouldn't it be, keeping in ...

Relationships v/s Academics

By Anjita Chowdhury-St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

Posted Apr 23rd 2013 1:00AM

When we think of the term college, the first thing that pops in any young mind is "freedom". Not denying the fact, because ...

IPL 6 Boon or Curse?

By Anjita Chowdhury-St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

Posted Apr 11th 2013 3:00AM

Once again it's that time of the year when we all get geared up for the Indian Premier League, get our tickets for the match ...

Will Pinkathon come to the City of Joy soon?

By Anjita Chowdhury-St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

Posted Mar 11th 2013 12:23AM

The colour pink is associated with every girl in this world, so it's a colour one can relate to. Justly said then, Pinkathon has ...

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Biography

St. Xavier's College campus strength is 6000.

Courses

Under Graduate, Post Graduate

Facilities

The Goethals Indian Library and Research Society, Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Student's Counselling Centre

Placements

Google, Tata Capital, UBS, Cognizant

Type :

Coed

Alumni

Lakshmi Mittal (Chairman & CEO, ArcelorMittal), Dr. Vijay Mallya (Chairman of United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines), Ronen Sen (Former Ambassador to the United States of America and current Director of Tata Motors), Harsh Neotia (Chairman of Ambuja Realty), Norman Pritchard (First Asian to win individual silver medal at the Paris Olympics, 1900), Leander Paes (India's Grand Slam star), Sourav Ganguly (One of the finest cricketers in the world and former Indian Cricket Team Captain), M. Hamid Ansari (Vice-President of India), Utpal Dutt (Actor, National Award winner for Best Actor, 1970), Victor Banerjee (Actor, Nominated for BAFTA Best Actor in the year 1985 for "A Passage to India"), Benjamin Walker (Writer on Religion and Philosophy), Jagadish Chandra Bose (Preeminent Scientist, invented the Crescograph), Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (Genetically Engineered, a Pseudomonas Bacteria), Dinesh Trivedi (Railway Minister)

Achievements

Was listed the top college for Commerce in the rankings produced by India Today, 2010.

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