Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APC College)

Acharya Prafulla Chandra College

Govt. Sponsored | NAAC Accredited A Grade College with CGPA 3.23

Affiliated to West Bengal State University

Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APC College)

About the Department

The undergraduate teaching in Electronics in Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore was introduced as a general course in 1986. The College authority and and the University of Calcutta noted with attention that on completion of the graduation degree majority of the students of this stream got services in the metrological and also in the Defense Department of the country. So the university launched a plan to introduce Honours course in this subject to achieve better prospect for the students and ultimately it turned to reality in 1996. The Department of Electronics of Acharya Prafulla Chandra College became the first college in West Bengal to start Honours course in Electronics. The first batch passed in 1999 and out of 20 students, 12 of them got 1st class all of the students getting admission in the M.Sc. course in Electronic Science under the University of Calcutta. Our UG result over the years has been highly satisfactory, with many of our students being University toppers and a sizable number of them established themselves in academic institutions in India and abroad as well as in reputed industries like Wipro, TCS, CTS, IBM and alike.