Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College

From 2012,Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College has become the first government engineering college to get the autonomous status in the state.

Naturally this one is a great achievement of this 50 year old college.JGEC is the third oldest among all technical institutions of the state after BESU and IIT KGP.The UGC team visited the college on December 22 ,2011.

The college is now autonomous in all types of academic affairs .The parent university will no longer directly interfere into college academics.The college itself will create syllabus of different semesters and evaluate the students on its own .Now the college is looking for the deemed status to be the third deemed technical university after JU and BESU.


Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College established in 1961 is a premier Engineering College in the State of West Bengal. The College is situated at the outskirt of Jalpaiguri Town, the Divisional HQ of seven Districts of North Bengal. The College offers Bachelor degrees (B.Tech) in six branches and Master degrees (M.Tech) in two branches of Engineering.University Grants Commision(UGC) declared Jalpaiguri Govt Engg College to be an autonomous institution on 12th December, 2011. The 50 year old institution is all set to open various other branches like BBA, BCA etc., and fulfil other criteria for becoming an A-class University. The new-batch that makes entry into the institution(through JEE 2012 onwards) won't get certificates affiliated from West Bengal University Of Technology. Also declared that after four years, the college would be no longer just an Engineering College, rather a University, the name of which is yet to be decided .