Dr. Kanailal Bhattacharya College

Dr.Kanailal Bhattacharya College (DKBC), Howrah was established in 1985. The college was started to provide higher quality education and excels in areas pertaining to their all round development and up gradation of society at large. Its aim is to cater the needs of the rural youths of Bengal. The college is a co-educational college. The curriculum is designed by the Boards of Studies of Calcutta University. The college offers under graduate courses in Arts and commerce stream. The college is accredited to  National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

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.