Nabadwip Vidyasagar College is situated in the small, semi–urban town of Nabadwip and caters to the specific higher education need of the households of seven towns and twenty-one villages within Nabadwip Block. As such, demand for higher education in a wide region is looked into by Nabadwip Vidyasagar College as the nearest colleges are situated at a distance of twenty –five kilometres (Kalna College), twenty –eight kilometres (Krishnanagar Govt College) and twenty kilometres (Purbasthali College). Thus the College is bestowed with enormous responsibility of providing quality higher education, on the one hand, and abiding by the educational policies of State Government and University Grants Commission.
- The College has been doing a fine balancing job between the two important aspects of higher education in West Bengal: to impart quality education and to extend opportunity of higher education to the mass.
- Almost ninety percent of the students are coming from rural set up of two adjacent districts: Nadia and Burdwan whereas most of them are first generation learners.
- In spite of the financial and social difficulty, the College has a huge intake capacity of more than eight thousand students where a good number of applications for admission are received each year.
- The College has an enrolment of girl students which is more than fifty percent of the total student strength that obviously makes the college a distinct one.
- As ‘empowering women’ is one of our best practices, besides boosting the morale and confidence among them, we also provide physical facilities for the Girl students. We run a Women’s hostel and a hostel for the SC and ST students at the same time.
- To support the students financially, we had partially waived tuition fees during Covid 19.
- During pandemic, maximum academic exposure was provided to meet the academic interests of the students through providing reading materials and video materials besides online classes through College website which, obviously, proves to be distinctive.
- We provide Honours in two unique subjects in respect to the district of Nadia: Honours in Computer Science and Environmental Science.
- To meet up the academic need towards introducing PG courses in future, the college is continuing the ongoing project of the large second campus near the College premises.
- To promote inter-departmental research activities among teachers and students there is the Central Laboratory at the College consisting of one server (96 cores) and UV-Vis-spectrophotometer (Range:190-900 nm).
- Nabadwip Vidyasagar College has been selected for up-gradation to a Model Degree College under RUSA 2.0 component-6.
- The well equipped, almost fully digitized Library has made the institution distinct. Apart from general book reading and lending facilities, the library provides maximum exposure to the students through online and offline journals, magazines for competitive exams and many more.
- There is a well equipped auditorium named Raghunath Siromoni Memorial Hall consisting of a seating capacity of 230 persons at the college premise. All the cultural programs beside seminars and special talk are organized here at a regular basis.
- Nabadwip Vidyasagar College has two boys’ NCC units (135+135 cadets) , one girls’ unit (160 cadets), under 54 Bengal BN NCC and 3 Bengal Girls BN NCC. The College has been able to send 19 NCC cadets to the Republic Camp in Delhi, 06 cadets in Thal Sainik Camp, so far.