The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board was formed in the year 1962 for the purpose of holding Common Entrance Examinations for the Undergraduate Level Engineering Courses in the State of West Bengal. This year, the Board has stepped into its Golden Jubilee year. Since last year, the endeavour of the Board has been to enhance the standard of transparency in conducting Common Entrance Examinations for various professional Undergraduate and Postgraduate level courses in the State through effective state-of-the-art technology. Admission through e–Counselling was successfully implemented to admit candidates in the undergraduate level courses in the Engineering & Technological Institutes of the State for the academic year 2012 – 2013.
For the 2013 – 2014 academic session, the Board will conduct the Common Entrance Examination along with counselling for admission to Undergraduate Courses in Engineering & Technology, Pharmacy and Architecture in Universities, Govt. Colleges and Self Financed Institutes in the State. The application for this examination will be received ONLINE and the FORM is available at the portal of the Board at http://www.wbjeeb.nic.in
The Office of the Board functions from AQ-13/1, Sector-V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700 091. For the Academic Year 2013 – 2014; the Board will conduct altogether six entrance examinations for admission to their respective participating institutes in the State as stated below:
WBJEE 2013
To conduct Entrance Examination and Counselling for admission to undergraduate degree level Engineering & Technology courses including Pharmacy and Architecture in different Universities / Government Colleges as well as Self Financing Institutes of West Bengal.