Vidya-Bhavana-Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences concept of Visva-Bharati as a Centre of Indian Culture, which came to be inaugurated as the Institute of Higher Studies and Research in 1332 B.S. (1925-26), has its origin in the Uttar-Vibhaga or the 'Department of Higher Studies'.

Vidya-Bhavana was the post-graduate faculty of the university dealing the under-graduate honours courses in both Humanities and Science Subjects being administered by Siksha-Bhavana.

Vision & Mission:

To study the mind of man in its realisation of different aspects of truth from diverse points of view.

To bring into more intimate relation with one another, through patient study and research, the different cultures of the East on the basis of their underlying unity.

To approach the West from the standpoint of such a unity of the life and thought of Asia.

To seek to realize in a common fellowship of study the meeting of the East and the West, and thus ultimately to strengthen the fundamental conditions of world peace through the establishment of free communication of ideas between the two hemispheres.