Shreya Goel's Review on St. Xaviers College Kolkata

The Placement Cell of St. Xavier's College, Kolkata creates a platform where students can showcase their talents which different companies seek to explore and utilise. Starting from 2003, we have successfully placed a large section of graduates who have appeared for placements. This year especially, the performance has been overwhelming.

The Placement Cell is headed by Rev. Dr. J. Felix Raj - SJ, and Dr. M. Hanifis the coordinator. The Cell is led by the Placement officer Mr. Niladri Sinha along with the Placement Advisory Board which consists of Professors and final year students from various departments.

The Department of commerce at St. Xavier's College enjoys a pre-eminent reputation for the excellence of its teaching in this dynamic discipline. It ranks alongside the most highly-rated departments in commerce among the undergraduate colleges of this country. From a very humble beginning in 1946, today it is the biggest department of the college catering to more than 3000 students. Our academic program is of the highest caliber because we believe in the transformative power of ideas. Our faculty, and diverse student body from various social walks of life, all contribute towards the same purpose: to maintain the department's excellent reputation in education at the cutting edge of economic, institutional and organizational aspects of commerce.

The Xavier's Management Society (XMS) was formed in 2010 under the Department of Business Administration. Founded with the objective of developing, promoting and honing the practical managerial skills of the students of its department, XMS has come a long way since its inception.

With the needs of the students as our priority, we organize events all-year round to help them discover and develop their talent. Our year started in July with the formation of our new board led by Paras Puri as the Secretary and Devanshi Shah as the Joint Secretary. We wasted no time in starting preparations for X-Confero '13, an inter-department and inter-college debate, where two teams from our college competed in an exciting and exhilerating finals. The competition saw various reputed colleges from our city participate to win the prizes for Best Team and Best Speaker. The preliminary rounds featured various teams from our college fighting it out to represent St. Xavier's College against the visiting teams such as JD Birla Institute, Loreto College, Indian Management Institute, Bhawanipore Gujarati Education Society College among others. The winning team was St. Xavier's College.