The Department's long tradition of excellent teaching goes back to Prof(s) Kuruvila Zachariah, Susobhan Sarkar, Amales Tripathi and Ashin Das Gupta in the 20th century and indeed right back to H.L.V. Derozio in the 1820’s. The department conducts in undergraduate (35 seats), postgraduate (20 seats) and PhD programmes. Students of this department show a consistently commendable performance in the university examinations by securing top three positions almost consecutively for the last five years