The English department, one of the oldest departments of the college, promotes an inter-disciplinary, non-canonical approach towards literature. It encourages students to go beyond the traditional genres of literature and explore other literatures in English and translation. The department started its MA English program in 2016 and plans to introduce research programmes in literature in order to facilitate meaningful research in the North Bengal region. The Department is committed to promoting inter-disciplinary research and imparting the CBCS curriculum in keeping with contemporary critical approaches in literature. The courses currently offered by the department are: BA Honours in English literature, Elective English for BA General Degree Course students, Communicative English for the COP programme and Masters in English literature.

The Department of English (UG & PG) of Salesian College envisages to empower the students to develop and build knowledge of the content and methods of literary studies, academic, professional, creative and critical reading/ writing thereby championing in undergraduate/ postgraduate research, knowledge creation and reaching to the marginalized.