The Department of Political Science,Chittaranjan College enjoys an exceptional reputation in both teaching and extra-curricular activities in the discipline. Extremely rich in academic potential, comprising a faculty known widely for their teaching abilities, it ranks easily among the best departments in the College. The Department was established in 2001 with General Course with professor Sandhya Debnath. In 2010 Mr Subhomoy Barman joined the department as part time faculty and now has been approved as State Aided College Teacher(category 1) and presentl running the department as HOD. The growth of the Department has coincided with the progress of the discipline of Political Science from a narrow body of legal and institutional knowledge to more comprehensive social sciences that integrates and interrogates sociological, economic, philosophical and cultural dimensions and thereby better relates to a purposive study of politics keeping especially the Indian reality in focus.

Vision:
The vision of the department is to shape the way the Political Science discipline is understood and taught in India in a foundational manner, imbued with a distinctive focus on contributions of the Indian scholarship in understanding our complex and diverse social realities. We are committed to advance education and academic research
that fosters possibilities of intellectual and social transformation of our students and prepares them to become citizen leaders committed to values of social & gender justice
and public

For Department of Political Science:
The department started as 3 Year B.A. General Course in 2001.
3 Year Choice Based Credit system (CBCS) is running since 2018.
3 Year B.A. Multidisciplinary Course (MDC) in Political Science (Under CCF 2022) started in 2023 with subject combinations.

Political Science (CC2), Education (CC1)/Hindi (CC1), History Minor (MN)/ Philosophy Minor (MN), Bengali/English/Hindi (IDC 1).

In the 4 Year B.A. Honours & Honours with Research Course , Political Science is taught with subject combinations:

Political Science Minor 2 , Education (Minor1), Philosophy (IDC1), Bengali (Honours & Honours with Research).
And

Political Science Minor 2 , Education (Minor1)/Hindi (Minor 1), Philosophy (IDC1), English (Honours & Honours with Research).

Students of this department participate in debate sessions and after completion of Bachelor Degree, many of them have got jobs in different sectors like BPOs, NGOs, Bank.