Professor (Dr.) Swapan Kumar Pramanick was born in 1946. After receiving Post-graduate Degree in Political Science with Sociology where he was placed in First Class, Prof. Pramanick joined as a teacher in Political Science at a college in Uttarpara in 1967. He joined the Department of Political Science at Burdwan University in 1972 from where he joined Calcutta University in 1978 in the Department of Sociology. He became Reader in Sociology in 1982 and joined as Professor of Sociology in the same University in 1990. He received his doctorate degree in Sociology in 1982.

With a teaching career spanning 36 years including teaching in Post-graduate Departments in the Universities of Burdwan and Calcutta for 31 years, Prof. Pramanick joined Vidyasagar University as its Vice-Chancellor on 1^st December 2003.

During the last 3 decades, he was involved in academic administration in various capacities. He served as a member of the Senate and the Syndicate of Calcutta University for about 12 years, Head of the Department of Sociology for 3 terms, Chairman, UG and PG Boards of Studies in Sociology, Co-ordinator, Ph.D. Committee in Sociology and member of Research Boards at the Universities of Burdwan and Kalyani. He has functioned as Chancellor's nominee to Selection Committees in the Universities of Burdwan, Jadavpur, Patna, Bhagalpur and at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He served as UGC expert member for assessment of the functioning of the Departments of Sociology covered under the Special Assistance Programme of the UGC.

Prof. Pramanick has published 31 Papers in national and international Journals in different branches of Political Science and Sociology. He has functioned as Director of Research Projects on Leprosy Patients (funded by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Government of India) and on the Functioning of Panchayats in West Bengal (funded by the Government of West Bengal). Prof. Pramanick has published three Books on Sociological Thought and Indian Society. He has also prepared text materials for Netaji Subhas Open University students both at Honours and at PG levels.

 Prof. Pramanick has attended numerous Seminars, Symposia and Workshops at national and international levels. He has also organised a good number of such Seminars and Workshops. In order to attend international Conferences/Seminars, he has visited many countries including Cuba, China, Australia, Thailand and Singapore.

As a person being actively involved in democratic teachers' movements at regional and national levels, Prof. Pramanick has always fought for the establishment and promotion of an academic milieu congenial for an improved teaching and research system in our Universities.

At present, being the Vice-Chancellor of Vidyasagar University for the Second Term, he is actively and intimately linked with the different phases of growth and development of the University. As one providing academic and administrative leadership to the University, Professor Pramanick has initiated many new measures to improve the infrastructural aspects of the University, to introduce new courses, to modernise the course contents and to introduce ICT in the academic and administrative spheres of the University. Professor Pramanick has wide Academic, Administrative Experience in the University level. He is a member of a large number of academic bodies and societies. He has also served as Chairman of the NAAC Peer Team and has visited a number of institutions as a part of his assignment to assess their performance.