Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kharagpur - Admission 2024, Fees, Courses, Placement, Ranking

Medical Facilities: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata has a dedicated medical team with two ambulances for students and staff. The ambulance service is available 24/7 and the college has two full time doctors, one part time doctor, four nurses, one attendant, and two ambulances. Students and faculty can call the 24/7 medical hotline of IISER Kolkata at +91-33-6136 0050.

Hostel Accommodation: IISER Kolkata offers hostel facilities for its students. IISER Kolkata hostels come with facilities like security, 24/7 electricity & water supply, medical facilities, recreational facilities, and more. IISER Kolkata has three hostel buildings: the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose hall, the Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar hall, and the Nivedita hall. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata hostels also have mess facilities that are charged separately in the hostel fees. IISER Kolkata hostel rooms are available for both men and women.

Library: To support students and faculty research, teaching, and learning, the IISER Kolkata Library subscribes to a wide range of electronic resources, including online databases (both full-text and bibliographic), e-journals, e-books, etc. IISER Kolkata library also bought copies of issues of journals from different publishers. Additionally, it subscribes to a small number of print journals. The IISER Kolkata library has a total of 29,500+ books, including 13,000+ electronic books and 16,500+ print books.

Computing Facility: The Computing Section continues to be the caretaker of all IISER Kolkata's network and computing solutions. The section works to give all IISER Kolkata members quick, secure access to the network and computers. The section offers all essential services, including mail, web, wiki, help desks, and custom academic ERP programmes. The section oversees the campus's entire wired and wireless LAN. National Knowledge Network (NKN) offers a 100 Mbps dedicated network line as the primary external network connection for IISER Kolkata.

Additionally, NKN contributed to the construction of a virtual classroom at IISER Kolkata, which has seating for about thirty people and is connected to all other major Institutes across the nation via the NKN grid. The Institute is proud of its many small computing clusters, which range in size from 200 to 600 Gigaflops and are currently in use.

The computer section anticipates setting up a high performance cluster with 1 Teraflop in the near future. The section oversees a computer centre with about fifty desktops for course and research students, some of which are connected to form a small experimental cluster called Meghnad.

Guest House Facilities: IISER Kolkata guest house facilities if offered to all the guests of IISER Kolkata including but not limited to parents visiting their wards at the college. IISER Kolkata guest house charges range from Rs 400 to Rs 3000 depending on the bed size and facilities availed during the booking.

Smart Class Rooms: An initiative to connect all of India's higher education institutions has been launched by the National Knowledge Commission, which is part of the Indian government. In support of these initiatives, IISER Kolkata has been linked via optical fibre link to the National Knowledge Network (NKN) since July 2011. A Virtual Classroom, or e-Classroom, has been set up at IISER Kolkata as an application to use this high-speed connection offered by National Knowledge Network. 

The purpose of this virtual classroom facility is to eliminate physical barriers between teachers and students who are located in various places. For instance, students from IISER Kolkata can join a class being held at IISER Pune and interact live with the instructor there, and vice versa. The Ramanujan Virtual Classroom is a virtual classroom facility that can send and receive high-definition interactive video lectures across the world via the internet. Additionally, a campus LAN and Wi-Fi facility are available in this room.

Practical Labs: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata offers great research and practical labs for its students and faculty to use. Currently, IISER Kolkata has 30 labs including CHN Analyzer, Digital Polarimeter (Rudolph), Electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer (EPR), Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption ionisation(MALDI), Differential scanning calorimeter(DSC), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy(Fesem), Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), Fluorescence spectrometer, LC-MS (Waters), Micro-calorimeter (GE), and 18 more.