Visva Bharati University Santiniketan

Visva-Bharati University  is one of India's major Central Government funded autonomous universities located in Santiniketan, West Bengal. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India. In its initial years Tagore expressed his dissatisfaction with the word 'university', since university translates to Vishva-Vidyalaya, which is smaller in scope than Visva Bharati. Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, in 1951, the institution was given the status of a university and was renamed Visva Bharati University. The English daily, The Nation, notes, "Using the money he received with his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, the school was expanded and renamed Visva-Bharati University. It grew to become one of India's most renowned places of higher learning, with a list of alumni that includes Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, globally renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the country's leading art historian, R. Siva Kumar, to name just a few.


Courses :

Arts & Humanities
Business & Social Sciences
Language & Cultural
Engineering
Science & Technology

Contact Details :

Address
District Birbhum
Santiniketan
731 235 West Bengal
India
Telephone +91 (3463) 262 451
Fax +91 (3463) 262 672
Other locations Sriniketan, Kolkata

Website : http://www.visvabharati.ac.in/

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