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Students can eat breakfast, lunch, evening snacks, and dinner at the IISER Kolkata mess. Breakfast selections will include boiled egg, bread-butter, cornflakes, idli, omelet, sambar, vada, and so on, with tea or coffee. Lunch options include rice, roti, daal, paneer, fish, chicken, dahi, papad, salad, and so on. Evening snacks include samosas, chowmin, bread-butter, omelets, and other items. Students can choose from rice, roti, daal, veg fry, chili chicken, mutton, dahi, and other dishes for dinner.
Infrastructure/Facilities
- Library
The Library has 29,500+ [16,500+ in print and 13,000+ electronic].The library subscribes a host of e-resources like online databases (both full-text and bibliographic), e-journals, e-books etc. to support your research, teaching, and study. It purchased archives of journals published by various publishers. It also subscribes a limited number of journals in print.
- HostelBoys HostelIn-Campus Hostel, Girls HostelIn-Campus Hostel
- Sports ComplexAvailable Facilities:Badminton Court
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Student Forum
Answered 9 months ago
IISER Kolkata offers admission to courses based on entrance exam. Candidates who have received the provisional KVPY fellowship award are eligible to apply for admissions. Students are admitted to the BS-MS Dual Degree programme through the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), State and Central
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Beginner-Level 5
Answered 8 months ago
IISER Kolkata OBC cutoff 2025 for admission to the BS + MS course across multiple specialisations was 891 under the AI quota. For the B.S. in Computational and Data Sciences + M.S. in Computational and Data Sciences specialisation, the first-round closing rank stood at 417. The cutoff ranks mentione
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 9 months ago
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata offers a variety of programmes at UG, PG, PhD and postdoctoral levels such as a five-year BS-MS Dual Degree programme, MS in Space Physics, Integrated PhD, PhD and Postdoctoral Research programme. Candidates need to meet the respective eligi
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Beginner-Level 5
Answered 9 months ago
IISER Kolkata is an autonomous institute that was established in 2006. The college was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. IISER Kolkata has seven departments: Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Computationa
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Hostels at IISER Kolkata
Institute has following three hostels in the permanent campus:
* The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Hall
* The Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Hall. * The Nivedita Hall
IISER Kolkata has three hostels. The hostel accommodations are quite good.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Hall (ICVS): It is an all-boys hostel for BS-MS students. This hostel is the closest to the lecture halls and research labs. You can get to the lecture halls within 2 minutes from this hostel.
ICVS has great facilities including high-speed internet, wash-rooms with geysers, washing machines on each floor. The hostel is under CCTV surveillance. However, there are no strict entering and exiting times specified.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (NSCB): NSCB has the same facilities as ICVS. It was also built at the same time. There are 2 wings for girls and 1 wing for boys. The boy’s and girl’s wings are separated by doors.
The main canteen is situated between NSCB and ICVS. The canteen is run by students. Below the main canteen, there are two stationary shops, xerox shops, saloons, and two refreshment shops.
Nivedita Hall: This hostel was built most recently. It is for the junior year BS-MS students. It has 2 wings for boys and 1 wing for girls. The wings are well-separated. It has all the facilities as the other two hostels. But there is poor ventilation.
It is close to the cricket ground, gym, badminton court, volleyball court. This hostel has its own canteen.
In the hostel, there are separate wings for Ph.D. and BS-MS students. Ph.D. students are allotted single rooms and BS-MS students are allotted double sharing accommodation. There are no hostel facilities for post-doctoral students.
Outside hostels :
Lokenath Paying Guest
Life Style PG
Sankar Das Mess
BASU MATI LADIES MESS