Through a Legislative Assembly Act, Government of West Bengal has passed an Act in the year 2007 to implement a very long unattended demand of the people in creating West Bengal State University. On 26th of May 2008, 57 colleges belonging to Calcutta University was transferred to West Bengal State University. The university is operating from Berunanpukuria and buses are operated from the University for transportation facility of faculties and students.

The aim of the university is to create the concept of cluster among the affiliated colleges, to motivate spreading of knowledge to ensure better job opportunities to the students, to introduce Ph.D level courses, to promote union between conventional method of education and distance/open University and to broaden the scope to take up to higher education by introducing new courses in professional studies. List of colleges affiliated to the university are given below:

Affiliated Colleges:

• Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Hearing Handicapped

• Amdanga Jugal Kishore Mahavidyalay

• APC College

• Banipur Mahila Mahavidyalay

• Barasat College

• Barasat Govt. College

• Barrackpore RS College

• Basirhat College

• Bhairab Ganguly College

• Bidhannagar Govt.College

• Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College

• Chandraketugarh Sahidullah Smriti Mahavidyalaya

• Derozio Memorial College

• Dinabandhu Mahavidyalay

• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Satabarshiki Mahavidyalaya

• Dum Dum Motijheel College

• Dum Dum Motijheel Rabindra Mahavidyalay

• East Calcutta Girls’ College

• Gandhi Centenary B.T. College,Habra

• Gobardanga Hindu College

• Gopal Chandra Memorial College of Education

• Govt. College of Education

• Hingalganj Mahavidyalay

• Hiralal Mazumdar Memorial College for Women

• Humayan Kabir Mahavidyalay

• Institute of Science and Advance Research

• Kalinagar Mahavidyalaya

• Kingston College of Law

• Kingston College of Science

• Kolkata Teacher’s Training College

• Madhyamgram B.Ed College

• Mahadebananda Mahavidyalay

• Morning Star College(private)

• Mrinalini Datta Mahavidyapith

• Naba Barrackpore Prafulla Chandra Mahavidyalay

• Nahata Jogendranath Mondal Smriti Mahavidyalaya

• Nandalal Ghosh BT College

• National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped

• Netaji Satabarshiki Mahavidyalaya, Ashoknagar

• Panihati Mahavidyalay

• P.N. Das College

• Post Graduate Govt. Inst. for Physical Edn.

• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya

• Rishi Bankim Chandra College

• Rishi Bankim Chandra College for Women

• Rishi Bankim Chandra Eve. College

• RK Mission Brahmananda College of Edn

• RK Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan

• RKM Vivekananda Centenary College

• Saheed Nurul Islam Mahavidyalaya

• Sarada Ma Girl’s College

• Sarojini Naidu College for Women

• Satyapriya Roy College of Education

• Sree Chaitanya College Habra

• Sree Chaitanya Mahavidyalay

• Swami Vivekananda College of Education

• Taki Govt. College

• Vivekananda College

The university is offering PG courses in history, mathematics, comparative literature, anthropology, Psychology, statistics, Hindi, Physics, physiology, English, computer science, sociology, chemistry and electronics.

Apart from these PG subjects, UG is offered for general physics, general philosophy, fishery, zoology, communicative English, political science, food and nutrition, Botany, geography, economics, Music, Sanskrit and economics. These courses are offered by eight departments belonging to the university and they are department of English, anthropology, commerce and management, Hindi, microbiology, history, zoology and botany. Candidates who wish to join this university can apply online through the official website of the university.