Colleges for Journalism in West Bengal/Mass Communication Colleges in West Bengal

Due to the existent cultural drop in West Bengal and to overcome it, study of Mass Communication plays a very vital role in this state as Mass Communication helps in communication among various societies. Kolkata, the city of joy, has become one of the major centres for this field as residents of this city have always stood against any wrong and injustice.

Mass communication study can be categorised into various sectors like journalism, public relations, advertising, cinematography, publishing, editing etc. It even extends to designing area including product design, industrial design, retail design advertising. Further specialisation in each of these sectors is also offered in many institutes in West Bengal.

List of top Mass Communication colleges in West Bengal:

• Institute of Mass Communication Film and Television Studies, Kolkata.

• Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication (Calcutta University), Kolkata.

• Oxford College of Education, Kolkata.

• Dept. of Mass Communication, University of Burdwan, Burdwan.

Actual list:

• Bhavan’s College of Communication and Management, Siliguri.

• Gyan Jyoti College, Darjeeling.

• Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication (Calcutta University), Kolkata.

• Oxford College of Education, Kolkata.

• Siliguri College, Siliguri.

• Institute of Mass Communication Film and Television Studies, Kolkata.

• Centre for Mass-Communication and Video-graphy (Rabindra Bharati University), Kolkata.

• Dept. of Mass Communication, University of Burdwan, Burdwan.

• Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata.

Popular cities: Kolkata, Siliguri, Darjeeling.

The institutes of Kolkata support the required infrastructure and various diploma, bachelors, post graduation and certificate courses in Mass Communication. There are various criteria for eligibility like for B.A. (HONS) in Journalism and Mass Communication; a candidate must have scored at least 50% in aggregate and 50% in English. Plus the candidate must take Sociology as a Pass subject and choose English as the other subject but this varies from institute to institute. Private institutes also conduct their own entrance examination to select students.