The land was originally owned by the United States Army and by a private zamindar. In June 1950, the first colony committee consisting of Santosh Kumar Dutta, Bhupendra Lal Nag, Prof. Samar Chowdhury and Prof. Sukumar Chakraborty set its sight upon the military barrack as the possible site for the college.
The college was finally founded in 1950, 2 November. The first Governing Body with Prof. Prasanta Kumar Bose at the helm included such illustrious academics as Dr. Triguna Sen, Dhirendranath Ray chowdhury, Nagendranath Pal, Sukumar Gupta, Dr. Makhanlal Ray Chowdhury.
Departments
Science
Physics
Chemistry
Mathematics
Microbiology
Zoology
Botany
Physiology
Environmental Science
Computer applications
Arts
Bengali
English
Education
Political Science
History
Journalism and Mass Communication
Philosophy
Commerce
Commerce
Certificate courses
Filmmaking and Television Production
Web Journalism, Animation and Graphics Design
Newspaper Reporting and Editing
Employability skill
Public Relations
Radio Production
News Reading And Anchoring
Master's degree
Microbiology
Library
The Library as one of the important central facilities of the Institute supports the study, teaching, research, and development programs of the Institute. It is housed in a separate building having three floors on a plinth area of 1000 sq. meters. The library has a collection of 1.7 lakh volumes of books which includes Text Books, Reference Books & Bound volumes of Journals, Standards, etc. The Library subscribes to about 120 current Journals. Library operations have been automated with the help of an integrated library software package, LIBSYS-4. The book database is accessible through OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue). Circulation Services are executed through Barcode System (Scanning). It has a good collection of Electronic resources in its Digital Library. It is an open-access library and remains open from 8:30 A.M. to 12:00 Midnight on weekdays and from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on weekends. The library has introduced a Wi-Fi Internet facility inside it to facilitate the free flow of information to the users. The library has a well-equipped Xerox facility. The users can avail of this facility on payment of a nominal charge. It has also some Audio-Visual equipment like Colour TVs, VCPs, Video-Camera, Projectors, Multimedia Projectors, etc.
Radio station
This college started a Radio Station named Radio Kolkata, in November, 2021
College publications
Ecolore, Web magazine, is published annually by Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, the Department of Economics. It was first published in 2020.
Dishari, online and Print Magazine, is published annually by Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication. It was first published in 2020
Notable Faculty
Triguna Sen, Union Minister for education in Government of India. He got Padma Bhushan.He was member of governing body and guest lecturer for this College.
Mahasweta Devi, English,Writer, an activist and Academic. Nominated for Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, Padma Shri Awarded for Social Work in 1986. She was Assistant Professor of this college.
Chinmoy Guha, English essayist, translator and Academic, awarded three knighthoods by the Ministry of Education in 2010 and 2013, and one by the Ministry of Culture in 2019.He was Assistant Professor of this college.
In Non-Fiction
Challenge, a 2009 Bengali film directed by Raj Chakraborty on the events of the Classroom, had scenes which were shot at the college.
Accreditation
Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College is recognized by the University Grants Commission and accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India.The College has a good academic record and meritorious students are recognized as an asset of the college. Regular and meritorious students of the college are awarded scholarships for further studies. The students of the college have a reputation of achieving several titles and medals in sports at the State and District level[5][6]
Ranked
Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College is Ranked in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).
Status and Initiatives
Science Film-Making Workshop was organised by dept of Journalism and Mass communication, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, on 31 August 2019, in collaboration with Indian Science News Association & Vigyan Prasar, DST, Govt of India.
Women Entrepreneurship Development Workshop was organized by Journalism & Mass Communication, VJRC on 29/11/2019. Mr. Amio Kalidaha, Scientific Officer, DST, Govt. of W. B., Dr. Prananta Biswas, Professor, Jadavpur University, Mr. Jayanta Das, Secretary, Octavsms were present as resource persons.
The Principal of VJRC, Dr. Rajyasri Neogy was awarded with Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Award by The Science Association of Bengal in Collaboration with BITM, NCSM and Govt. of India on National Science Day 2020 on 29 February at BITM, Kolkata
Public Outreach Programme was organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics, VJRC, on 27.04.2022 in collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
A MoU was signed between Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College with the Department of Bengali, Northern University, Bangladesh to facilitate academic and cultural exchanges on 12.03.2023.
