Academic Institutions
Jadavpur is distinguished by the presence of one of India's top university Jadavpur University, and the leading research institutes of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), National Instruments (Jadavpur University has taken over the campus of this defunct company in 2009) and the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB). Jadavpur is also home to KPC Medical College and Hospital and K.S. Roy T.B. Hospital,West Bengal's first private-public partnership medical college initiated by the left-front government for the betterment of medical education in West Bengal, Jadavpur Vidyapith and Jadavpur High School, some of the leading South Kolkata schools and Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Polytechnic, the leading premier polytechnic college in West Bengal.
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