Agartala, 11th April 2026: As Tripura students chase admissions to distant metro colleges, a growing number of families are discovering that the journey to a good career may not require leaving the region at all.
Sometime last year, a young man named Saswata Kapat walked out of Adamas University in Kolkata with a law degree — not engineering, not medicine, not any of the courses that Tripura families typically regard as the surest route to a good income — and accepted a placement offer worth one crore rupees a month. The story has since travelled, quietly but steadily, through school corridors and neighbourhood conversations across this state, and it has prompted a question that a growing number of families are now asking aloud: are students being sent to the right places?
For years, the answer that most Tripura families gave themselves was Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai or NCR . The reasoning was simple, if not always examined: distance felt like ambition. A child going far away was a child going somewhere. But the practical consequences of that instinct — rent in an unfamiliar city, flights home during Durga Puja and summer, the isolation of living in a place where the language is different and the food is foreign — have begun to weigh on families in ways that were once considered too uncomfortable to say out loud.
Meanwhile, Kolkata — culturally familiar, Bengali-speaking, and significantly less expensive to live in than any of the cities families have traditionally aspired to — has been home to Adamas University for over a decade now. Spread across 120 acres in Barasat, just 13 kilometres from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, the university has accumulated a record that, in the considered view of several education ranking bodies, places it comfortably among the best private institutions in eastern India.
IIRF(The Indian Institutional Ranking Framework) rated it the number one private university in West Bengal in 2023, and its engineering and technology programmes were ranked 12th in India and 4th among institutions in East and North-East India — a region that directly includes Tripura. Times Higher Education, one of the most cited global ranking organisations, placed it among the top 100 universities in the world in its Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2026. It holds a NAAC Grade-A accreditation and is recognised by UGC, AICTE, the Bar Council of India, and the Pharmacy Council of India, among others.
None of these are numbers that Adamas publicises loudly. What it publicises — and what has been drawing students from across the North-East — is its placement record. In 2024, 97 out of every 100 graduating students left the campus with a job. The batch before that recorded 96%. The year before, 93%. The trajectory is consistent in a way that is relatively rare among private universities of any size. Companies that have recruited directly from the Adamas campus include Amazon, Deloitte, EY, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Intel, HCL, and ITC, among others.The average salary package recorded in 2025 stood at 8.5 lakh rupees per annum, with the highest — Kapat’s — at one crore per month. For a family calculating return on investment, these are not abstractions.
That calculation, in fact, is where Adamas makes its most compelling case — not through rankings, but through arithmetic. A student enrolled at a private college in Bangalore or Pune faces not only tuition fees but also monthly rent of fifteen to twenty-five thousand rupees, four return flights a year, and the cost of daily life in a metro city. Spread across four years, the total expenditure is a figure that most middle-class Tripura families find genuinely difficult to sustain. In Kolkata, the numbers are different — and the degree, validated by international and national ranking bodies and backed by a near-complete placement record, is not a lesser one.
The university’s campus facilities — air-conditioned classrooms with smart boards, separate CCTV-monitored hostels for men and women, a hybrid library, advanced laboratories, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, and multiple dining options — are consistent with what is offered at institutions that students travel across the country to attend. An international partnerships network covering over 108 universities in 41 countries allows students to earn credits through semester-abroad programmes without abandoning their primary degree. And in one feature that is unusual by any standard, the university formally prepares its degree students for the IAS, IPS, and WBCS civil service examinations alongside their coursework — a provision of particular interest in a state like Tripura, where a career in government service is held in high regard.
For students who are uncertain about JEE, NEET, or WBJEE — and in a year when the competition for those examinations has intensified further — the university offers a separate route. On 17th April 2026, Adamas will conduct its own entrance examination, the Adamas University Joint Entrance Test, or AUJET. Students who qualify can receive scholarships on tuition fees of up to 100 per cent for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the academic year 2026–27.
Adamas University’s State Office in Agartala, which handles admissions and enquiries for students from Tripura, is located opposite the Women’s College on B.K. Road — a familiar landmark for most Agartala residents. The office is open every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays, from ten in the morning to seven in the evening. Families who prefer to enquire before visiting can reach the office at 8729937613 and Open all days including Saturdays and Sundays, 10 am to 7 pm.
