College and University offer different undergraduate and postgraduate courses: Three-year Undergraduate Degree (B.A. Honours) courses: Ancient Indian & World History, Bengali, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pali, Sanskrit, Advaita Vedanta, Panini Vyakarana, and Sahitya. Two-year Postgraduate Degree (M.A.) Courses: Ancient Indian & World History, Bengali, English, Philosophy, Sanskrit, and Linguistics. Two-year Acharya degree(equivalent to M.A.) in Traditional Orientation Learning (Advaita Vedanta). Central Library The central library of the Sanskrit College and University is a veritable goldmine for researchers. It contains over 2,00,000 books and 25,000 manuscripts, including several very rare manuscripts. The university has also started a massive digitization program such that it can place these 25,000 manuscripts in the cultural commons. Sanskrit Charcha Kendra, Nabadwip The Sanskrit College and University has established a Sanskrit Charcha Kendra, in Nabadwip, Nadia, West Bengal. This state-of-the-art research center provides an opportunity to research scholars, and academicians to harvest the traditional Indic knowledge base already present in University's repository and to take Indological and Sanskrit studies to the future. Notable alumni Saradaranjan Ray Bijoy Krishna Goswami Surendranath Dasgupta Krishna Kanta Handique Mahanambrata Brahmachari Bimal Krishna Matilal Abanindranath Tagore Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar See also List of Sanskrit universities in India Education in India Education in West Bengal References External links Academic institutions associated with the Bengal Renaissance Universities and colleges in Kolkata Educational institutions established in 1824 Schools in Colonial India 19th century in Kolkata Sanskrit universities in India 1824 establishments in India