St. Xaviers College Kolkata

St. Xavier College is a Christian Minority Higher Educational Institution was established by Catholic Minority Religious body which is a Society of Jesus in the year 1860. The college has affiliation to Calcutta University offers Undergraduate and Postgraduate in the arena of Education, Business Administration, Commerce, Science and Arts with many specializations. The college even provides several diploma and professional programs with career concerned programs. Further, the college even provides Ph.D. in Biotechnology, Physics, Commerce and Microbiology.

The college’s instruction medium is English. Though, candidates coming from Vernacular schools are provided amenities to improve their proficiencies in spoken English. The mode of submitting application forms for the admission to college is through online and after some time, the applicants are called for entrance exam and counseling sessions.

The admission process for Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses start from May and ends in June, the procedure for Ph.D. course starts & ends in December only. And B.Ed. admission procedure takes place in February and ends in March.

The candidates who are interested for getting admissions to full-time residential MBA can apply through online in college’s official website.

 The college provides B.Sc., BA, BMS, B.Com, M.Sc. Biotech and Multimedia (integrated) course at Undergraduate level.

• The college also offers M.Sc. in Physics, Computer Science & Microbiology and M.Com at the Postgraduate level.
• The applicants who are seeking for admissions t Undergraduate level should mandatorily have cleared their 10+2 from any known board.
• The basic eligibility criteria for an applicant to get admission for Postgraduate course like M.Sc. and M.Com are Undergraduate level degree in the concerned field with at least 50%.
• The college even provides B.Ed. in English, Economics, Political Science, Mathematics, Hindi, Geography, History and Life Science.
• The Admission procedure for B.Ed. course will start from February and will end in March.
• The applicant should have at least scored 50% in UG or PG level.
• The application fee has to be paid by the applicant before the dead line mentioned by the institute.

Key Facts:

• The students who have passed their 10+2 can apply for as many UG programs of their interest.
• St. Xavier has assured reserved seats for the Catholics and rest Christians, Economically Challenged, ST, SC, Physically Challenged, NCC Cadets, Outstanding Sportspersons and the schools which are administered by Calcutta Province of the Society of Jesus, Daughters and Sons of the members of College’s alumni committee with a record of serving to the society and college.
• The students who do not have minimum required score of 60% but fulfill all other criteria and also belong to category II and III and also economically backward category students can have a talk the Principal or Vice-Principal or Dean for allowance to apply for the admission.

Admission Schedule (M.Com):

Application for UG, PG and Research:

Admissions:

MBA-

The college provides 2 year full time residential MBA course in selected specializations to the qualified students every year. The candidates, to get qualified for the admission to MBA must have completed a 3 year Bachelor degree in any stream from a known university with at least 50% aggregate marks.

Further, the candidate must also have attended any National entrance exam for MBA such as GMAT, XAT and MAT etc. for the present academic year. The candidates who are waiting to attend final examination during the present academic year can also apply & submit the previous semesters’ marks sheet.

The candidates will be selected on the basis of several parameters like 10th marks, qualifying degree marks, National Entrance exam score and experience in work, English Language ability and also performance in Group Discussion and Personal Interview rounds led by the institute.

The candidates who are seeking admission to the college can register themselves through the college’s official website.

• The application form should be filled in and uploaded online with the necessary processing fee.
• After submitting, an auto generated unique application number will be given to the candidate that will be used for further contacts with the college.
• The candidate has to pay INR 1000/- as application processing fee upon the successful filling of the form.
• The college’s officer will get in contact after the application form and processing fee has been submitted.

Under Graduate Course-

The college provides Honours specialization in B.Sc., BA, B.Com and BBA program as UG course and it even offers general courses for those students who do not desire to pursue Honours degree. All the Undergraduate courses are provided with duration of 3 years and the application process starts in the month of May. The candidates who have completed their 10+2 or equal education are eligible to apply for the admission to UG course.

The selection for the Undergraduate course is carried on the basis of merit in qualifying examination for all the course excluding B.Sc. in Mass Communication, BBA (Hons.) and Bachelor in Multimedia. For these courses, the candidate has to attend an entrance examination.

M.Sc., Integrated M.Sc., and M.Com-

The college provides Master degree in 6 different streams namely Biotechnology, Computer Science, Physics, Microbiology, Animation (Integrated) and Multimedia and Commerce. All course offered here are of 2 years duration and the applicants applying for these courses should have cleared Undergraduate degree with minimum marks in the related field. The application procedure for these courses will start from the June Month. M.Sc. and M.Com courses admission is done through an entrance exam conducted by the college and for integrated M.Sc., it is done on merit basis.

B.Ed. course-

The college provides 2 years of B.Ed. course and the interested students can apply after completing their graduation or post-graduation with an aggregate of 50%. The candidates will be selected through interview based on merit and performance in academics and interview and excellence in co-curricular activities.

Key Facts:

• The max age limit for the candidate to get admission to B.Ed. course is 40 years as on 1st July.
• Other than academic records, the candidate must even have studied at least one subject provided in B.Ed. course, either at graduation or post-graduation and fluency and good command both in writing and speaking English language.

Application Process:

• The application forms are to be duly filled and submitted through college official website.
• The application form will only be registered for further procedure only after the complete payment of application fee of INR 1000/- for BBA and B.Sc. Mass Communication and INR 500 for all course through Debit Card, Credit Card, Net Banking in college’s website or in cash only to Syndicate Bank, Park Street Branch situated inside the college campus through Bank Challan.
• The list of selected applicants for interview will be published in college website.
• The instruction given in the website has to be followed by the candidate to appear for the interview.
• Owing Contemplation will be provided to the candidates who have outshined in performance arts, literary activities, games and sports.

Admission to Ph.D. course-

The college provides Ph.D. course of 2 years with an intake of 16 students for advanced research and studies in numerous fields like Microbiology, Physics, Commerce and Biotechnology.

The basic eligibility conditions for the candidates to apply for admission are:

• The candidate must have 55% in Microbiology, Physics, Commerce and Biotechnology in M.Sc. and M.Com from any college or GC recognized university.
• The candidate must have either SET/NET/M.Phil. From any known university with 1 year course work or will have to qualify in the RET led by department.
• The candidates who are expecting to acquire M.Phil. in Biotechnology/Physics/Commerce/Microbiology from any an UGC known university will also be excluded from the RET and will be directly eligible for the interview.
• The candidates who are excluded will have to directly submit  SoP representing the interested research area for those who are qualified in SET or NET exams or who have already acquired degree in M.Phil.

Application Process:

• The application to Ph.D. program in department of Microbiology, Physics, Commerce and Biotechnology can be downloaded from college official website.
• The duly filled application forms along with all the attested testimonial should be sent to the Ph.D. coordinator, P.G. Office, St.Xavier’s College, 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata 700016 by paying INR 100/- in cash at cash counter of P.G. Office. Other outstation candidates can send the form and testimonials with a DD of INR 100/- in favour of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and Payable at Kolkata.

Security Deposit:

The candidates who are selected for the admission have to deposit certain amount as security deposit in the college.

• INR 10000/- for courses like B.Sc. Mass Communication, B.Sc. Microbiology, B.Sc. Computer Science and Videography, BBA, B.Com, Integrated M.Sc. Multimedia, Integrated M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Microbiology and M.Sc. Computer Science.
• INR 5000/- for rest of the courses.
• Security deposit paid will be refundable after the course completion (without interest) by producing original receipt and certificates.