Surendranath Banerjea was one of the great pioneers in the history of India's freedom movement.

He is regarded as a great patriot, scholar, orator and statesman. As an educationist he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the cause of higher education in the country. In 1882 Surendranath Banerjea took over the charge of Presidency School.

Early in 1884 this school was converted into Presidency Institution affiliated to I.A. standard and later in the same year into a degree college named as “Ripon College”. In 1885 Law Department was added and was converted into a separate college in 1911 named as Ripon Law College. In 1948-49 the Ripon College was renamed as “Surendranath College” after the name of the illustrious founder of the institution.

The college is located near Sealdah Railway Station well connected by railway links having a vast hinterland. The hinterland covers vast urban, suburban, and rural areas. A large number of families having poor financial, social and educational background reside nearby our college. The students from these families find place in our college. Further, students employed during day time or busy otherwise they admitted to quest their thirst for knowledge and learning. Our College bears a tradition over the decades. The college is located at the heart of the cosmopolitan city and in the vicinity of Sealdah and Howrah Railway Stations and the college is in the immediate proximity to the University of Calcutta. It is well connected by train and bus road.

The college pledges its devotion to the pupils of our country. By means of academic audit, reviewing of institutional processes by involving of faculty members, students and staff, we are continuously trying to improve our delivery of teaching services at the lowest possible costs.

Our college is presently governed by a democratically constituted Governing Body consisting of thirteen members out of which two members nominated by the University of Calcutta, two members nominated by the Director of Public Instructions, Government of West Bengal, one member from Local self-government, four members representatives from Teaching Staff, two members representatives from non­ teaching staff, and the General Secretary of Students’ Union.

The college follows the government orders and instructions on finance matters relating to salary and dearness allowance disbursement to the staffs.

VISION

The vision of this college is to impart education and knowledge at all levels of the society which was the main aim of our founder Sir Surendranath Banerjee, a great a patriot of Indian freedom movement and a great educationist cum politician of pre-independence India. Keeping with the legacy of our founder the College is committed to imparting, sustaining and fostering all-round holistic and quality education to the students coming from every stratum of the society so that they gather knowledge as well as employable expertise and grow up as responsible global citizens of tomorrow. The institution envisages evolving, improving, upgrading and remaining committed to its laurels of heritage in conformity with the immortal words of the Upanishada, namely “Damyata” or Restraint, “Datta” or Charity and “Dayaddhyam” or non-violence, and also with modern outlook to make the college a centre of excellence for higher education and research. The vision of our college is to build up a sound human resource base of this state and to attain the status of a model evening college in the eastern region of India.

MISSION

All of us are familiar with the most familiar Sanskrit phrase “Chhatranam adhyanang tapoh”. Taking inspiration from the maxim our mission is to provide a through ethical and aesthetic foundation to the character of our students. Going beyond formal pedagogy we wish to develop our college a model human resources centre in eastern region of India, which would no churn out students but built human beings who are much humble yet with bold confident. Thus our motto “Vidya dadati vinyanang.” These are the common features of our nurtured student during 3 years of study. Surendtanath Evening College vows to attain the objectives of a true model evening college in West Bengal.

Keeping the above view, the mission of the college is to inculcate love of knowledge and provide holistic education to the student coming from every stratum of the society, so that they emerge as true human beings who can make significant contribution as a responsible citizen of tomorrow. In order to achieve this the college coordinates the activities of the teachers, students and other staff members to ensure smooth functioning and all round development of academic as well as other curricular activities.