With a glorious tradition and brilliant record of success behind it, the Vidyamandira was upgraded into a three-year degree college with effect from July, 1960.
A higher secondary section (classes XI and XII) was added in September, 1978.
In the year 1994 new courses were started under the UGC scheme of vocationalization of degree education.
We are proud to state that it was accreditated by the NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council), India and awarded a grade A+ with an institutional score 93.25% in February 2005.
As per the notification of the State Government, the H.S. Section was discontinued from the academic session 2006-2007. In the same session post-graduate teaching was introduced in two subjects viz., Mathematics and Sanskrit.
From the session 2008-2009, a Post Graduate course in Bengali was introduced.
The College has been recognized as College with Potential for Excellence(CPE) in 2010.
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, has been conferred upon the Autonomous Status by the UGC, New Delhi, from the session 2010-2011 upto 2015-2016 session [vide letter no F.22-1/2010(AC), Dated : 23 June 2010]
From the session 2010-2011, Industrial Chemistry Honours was started instead of the erstwhile Industrial Chemistry Major.
From the session 2011-2012, Post Graduate course in Applied Chemistry was introduced.
From the session 2013-2014, Post Graduate course in Philosophy was introduced.
From the session 2013-2014, A Certificate course on Photography was introduced.
Swami Vivekananda Research Center has become operational from the session 2013-2014.
In October 2013, the college was re-accredited by NAAC in 2nd cycle with Grade A (highest grade).
In March 2014, the college was awarded the status College with Potential for Excellence (CPE) for the second time by the UGC.
During 2015-16 session, the college was awarded DST-FIST by the Central Government.
The status of autonomy was renewed in 2016 by the UGC and was extended for another 6 years. .
From the session 2017-2018, Under Graduate course in Zoology was introduced.
Vidyamandira received the ‘Star-college status’ from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India in 2019. .
Vidyamandira ranked 9th (respectively 11th & 7th) by NIRF at the national level in the college category in the year 2018 (respectively 2019 & 2020).
Vidyamandira ranked 5th by NIRF at the national level in the college category in the year 2021.
In October 2021, the college was re-accredited by NAAC in 3rd cycle with Grade A++ (highest grade with CGPA 3.58).
From the session 2021-2022, Post Graduate course in Computer Science & Machine Intelligence was introduced.
In 2022, The status of ‘Autonomy’ was renewed and extended for 10 years by the UGC for A++ Grade in NAAC & for the NIRF Rankings (one of the top 50 Colleges in India)
The college was ranked 9th in college category in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Ranking 2022, by Ministry of Human Resource Department, Government of India.