IISER Kolkata Faculty

The faculty at IISER Kolkata is noted for its excellent faculty-to-student ratio of approximately 1:7, facilitating personalized attention and a supportive learning environment. All faculty members possess PhDs and many have postdoctoral experience from prestigious institutions worldwide, enhancing their research credentials. The faculty is approachable and innovative in their teaching methods, with regular interaction facilitated through office hours, email, and even WhatsApp. The institution follows a comprehensive examination structure, including mid-term and end-term exams, quizzes, and class tests, with a curriculum aligned to current research trends.

While the quality of faculty is generally high, with some being recipients of prestigious awards like the Bhatnagar Award, there are variations in teaching effectiveness. Despite the rigorous coursework, faculty members are committed to student support, offering extra classes and doubt-solving sessions, often assisted by PhD student teaching assistants. The institution houses more than 200 faculty members, ensuring a diverse range of expertise across various scientific disciplines.

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Donthina Jagadish

4.9Helpful

BS + MS, Biological Sciences

Reviewed on Nov 5, 2025(Enrolled 2025)

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Faculty and students ratio is good as we are moving to next years because of different seperate departments . many assinments tests quizes internal exams a mid semesters semesters are common.Thre are easy if we folloe the daoly schedules.

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Review Ninja

3.9Helpful

Reviewed on Dec 10, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

IISER Kolkata review by student

The faculty in IISER Kolkata are really knowledgeable, promising in their work and are easily approachable. Exams here are quite challenging for students, scientific thinking is checked. But one can easily answer the question after studying throughout the year. If you will attend lectures than it will be more beneficial because instructor teach us how to think in a better way. So you can score good in exam if you study well.

College Ninja

4.7Helpful

BS + MS, Chemistry

Reviewed on Dec 8, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

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The faculties are too experienced and bunch of opportunities for you to do anything you want related to academics

In first year you have a batch of roughly 240 students and they have class at the same time in same hall so ratio is not so good initially. But for further semesters there are somewhat 1 facility over 40-50 students. There are many faculty members for eg: Prof. Somnath Basu, Prof. Gaurav Shukla, Prof. Golam, Prof. Soumya Bhattacharya,etc which are absolutely finest at their jobs. I haven't met such professor whom I dislike.

Anonymous

BS - MS

Reviewed on Oct 8, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

REVIEW OF IISER KOLKATA

The interactive classes by the profsessors.
Doubt solving and office hours given by the profs.

i) Faculty to student ratio is quite good like about 1:7. ii) Being a 1st year student I still haven't interacted with many profs but I liked Debabrata Sir of chem and Maths prof Somnath Basu. iii) I personally don't like Earth Science hence I didn't like Gaurav Shukla Sir. iv) There are many exams including class tests, quizes, midsems and endsems. Still now the papers I faced are quite easy some are about class 12 level questions. Marking scheme is just as it is.

4.6Helpful

M.Sc, Physics

Reviewed on Sep 18, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

IISER Kolkata: A glimpse

High knowledge and humbleness of teachers, ready to make students learn

The faculty-to-student ratio at IISER Kolkata is relatively low, ensures better focus on each student with better interaction, and overall a supportive environment full of knowledge. Exams at IISER Kolkata can be rigorous, but their difficulty often depends on the subject and the professor. There are mid-term and end-term exams, and regular quizzes, assignments, and lab evaluations. The curriculum at IISER Kolkata is regularly updated to align with current research trends, This makes it highly relevant for students aiming to pursue careers in science and research.

Firoz alam

3.5Helpful

BS + MS, Physical Science

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2019)

WANT TO BE SCIENTIST , JUST GET ADMISSION IN IISER KOLKATA

Faculties have seperate appartment to live in the campus. Almost professors are quite good scientist. They have done excellent work in their field. You can visit their lab and can experience the amount of knowledge they have. Some professors lack teacher experience beside they are good scientist. Amd some are excellent in teaching the class.

Gargi Patil

3.7Helpful

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2022)

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The faculty is usually incredibly smart and experts in their field

The first two years the class sizes are quite huge. First year it's around 200, second year it's around 100, but third year onwards class size reduces drastically. For the Math department, often the class size is 12-20 people. Exams here are super stressful and really tough. Around 50 people fail/drop out by the second year as it's quite hard to cope with the syllabus. Faculty themselves are good though

Mahaprasad Mishra

4.1Helpful

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2024)

IISER Kolkata and why it's one of the best for research

The faculties are really quite amiable and more than approachable, well more than engineering colleges i think. The LS1101 instructor, Professor Sumana and PH1101 instructor, professor Golam's pedagogy is absolutely fantastic and quite interesting. There are two primary exams, the midsems and the endsems, and several quizzes and tests which the faculty can conduct either pre-planned or at the spot. The course curriculum is state-of-the art and with par to the foreign courses offered.

Aditya Jha

4.3

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

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Labs are too good and doing too good in reasearch.

Lot's of faculty are in this college. I am unable to give total number of faculty but I think more than 200 faculty present in Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata. They are very good in their respective fields.

Anshika

Life at iiser k

The faculties here are all very helpful some of them even go out of way to help students. They're are very approachable as well. I am myself am introvert it's very hard for me to ask questions in the class so we are provided to ask question in office hours or through WhatsApp or emails. For the exams, i would say they are the right amount of level students would need. The course is pretty intresting making learning easier and making exams more fun.