Dinabandhu Institution

Dinabandhu Institution (DI), Howrah was established in 1948. The college is a premier and co-education college. The college draws its academic strength from its competent faculties and well-equipped Infrastructure.  The college has a team of experienced teachers who are not just masters in their subjects but understand the students' minds really well. The college offers a wide choice of undergraduate courses both at honours and general level in Arts, Science and Commerce stream. The college has state-of-the-art technologies and infrastructure.

The college is affiliated to the Calcutta University. It is the oldest of the modern universities in India. It was established in 1857 during the administration of Lord Canning, the Governor General of India. It is the only university in India which produced four Nobel laureates and has ranked consistently amongst the first five hundred universities in the world. It was the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent. It has been declared as a "Five Star University" and a "Centre with Potential for Excellence" by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The Times Education Supplement of London ranked the University of Calcutta as the 39th best university in the world, in the Arts & Humanities category in 2005. The main campus of the university is located at College Street in Kolkata while and several other campuses are spread over the metro and its suburbs.