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The University of Calcutta is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) , West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857. It was the first institution in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and secular Western-style university. Within India it is recognized as a "Five-Star University" And Accredited "A" Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council and declared as an "University With Potential For Excellence" & a "Centre with Potential for Excellence In Particular Area" by the University Grants Commission. Its alumni and faculty include four Nobel laureates, namely Ronald Ross (Medicine), Rabindranath Tagore (Literature), C. V. Raman (Physics), and Amartya Sen (Economics). The university has the highest number of students who have cleared the doctoral entrance eligibility exam in Natural Science & Arts conducted by Government of India's National Eligibility Test to become eligible to pursue research with a full scholarship awarded by the Government of India.

The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857. It was the first institution in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and secular Western-style university.

According to me the first university after 1857 was the ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY by Syed Ahmad Khan.

In case of universities in Modern India, the oldest establishment date listed by the UGC is 1857, shared by the University of Mumbai, the University of Madras and the University of Calcutta.

First Indian university was open in bihar before 1857 from the period of chankya - chandra gupt mourya. Whose name is nalanda university. But here time was mension so calcutta is right answer.

The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857.

In 1857 university was opened in kolkata.

Its wrong answer, bihar is right, it was nalanda university.

It was establishede in the time of pre-Independence era. That time kolkata is the capital of India.