"The name of Bethune College was inextricably related to instruction for Bengali women. Viewed during this light-weight, no different women's faculty in the undivided geographic region might hold a candle to pedagogue. If one were to compile a listing of pedagogue students at the top of the nineteenth century and therefore the 1st four decades of the 20 The, the result would be a WHO's who of Bengali women of these times."

Professor Sujata Chaudhuri of the Department of English, Bethune College and mother of retired prof Sukanta Chaudhuri, celebrated academician, author and translator, once eulogized Bethune College in these terms. it's maybe no exaggeration to state that Bethune College has contended a polar role within the liberation of ladies in India.

The alumnae of the faculty have shown their brilliance throughout the last century in numerous spheres of life. The establishment that started with the founder John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune's pioneering vision of manufacturing 'better wives and higher mothers in their homes' has, with the assistance of education, with success enlightened generations of ladies to such a degree that they need emerged as triumphant sceptered people in each home and therefore the world. Pritilata Wadder, the famed insurgent of India, was a student of this school. Chameli Basu was the primary Science student of this school and conjointly the primary lady Science Graduate of the University of the metropolis, followed by the eminent soul Dr. Ashima Chatterjee, WHO holds the rare honor of being the primary Indian lady to be bestowed doctor's degree of Science in 1944.