Rabin Mukherjee College (RMC), Kolkata It was established in 1857 during the administration of Lord Canning, the Governor General of India.

It is a premier college in Kolkata. The college was formerly known as Behala College of Commerce.

The aim of the college is to   create and sustain an academic environment conductive to academic and professional excellence and also to promote world-class education to the inspired youth.

The college is conveniently located and the excellent infrastructure of the campus generates an ideal ambiance for studies.

The college offers a wide choice of undergraduate courses both at honours and general level in disciplines of Arts and Commerce. The curriculum is designed by the Boards of Studies of Calcutta University.

The college is affiliated to the Calcutta University. It is the oldest of the modern universities in 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.