Khandra College is a general degree college located at Khandra in the Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal, India. The institution offers undergraduate courses in the arts and sciences, and serves students from the surrounding mining and industrial belt of the Raniganj–Asansol coalfield region.
| Name | Khandra College |
|---|---|
| Type | Undergraduate degree college |
| Location | Khandra, Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India |
| Affiliation | Kazi Nazrul University |
| Country | India |
Khandra College functions as an affiliated college providing tertiary education in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Like other general degree colleges in West Bengal, it follows the curriculum and examination framework laid down by its affiliating university and admits students through a state-mandated centralised admission process.
The college is situated at Khandra, a settlement within the Andal–Ukhra industrial corridor in Paschim Bardhaman. The area lies within the broader Raniganj coalfield, historically a major centre of coal mining and associated industry in eastern India. The district was carved out of the erstwhile Bardhaman district in 2017, when Paschim Bardhaman was constituted as a separate administrative unit.
Colleges in the Asansol–Durgapur region were earlier affiliated to the University of Burdwan. With the establishment of Kazi Nazrul University at Asansol in 2012, general degree colleges in the region, including Khandra College, came under its jurisdiction for academic affiliation and examinations.
The college typically offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science programmes, with both honours and general (programme) streams in subjects drawn from the standard West Bengal undergraduate framework. Teaching is structured around the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) prescribed for affiliated colleges in the state.
By providing accessible higher education in a semi-urban industrial belt, Khandra College plays a role in widening participation in tertiary education for students from coal mining townships and adjoining rural areas of Paschim Bardhaman, many of whom are first-generation college learners.