The college has facilities for playing sports and activities such as: football, basketball, hockey, volleyball, cricket, table tennis, badminton,
carrom and
foosball. These games are played throughout the year at both intra-college and inter-college levels. A sports day is organised, every year in December. Students of the college, compete in various track and field events, on this day, amidst huge audiences from all over the city. St. Xavier's College has some of the best festivals at the Undergraduate level in the country. •
XAVOTSAV, the cultural festival is held annually in late January or early February. Most colleges of Kolkata are invited to participate in events like Band Performance, Neon Dance, Classical Dance, Singing etc. This festival is organized by the Students Union along with the alumni body of the college. •
PRISM is the annual corporate simulation organised by EDC for first years. •
INERTIA, the international marketing festival is held annually in February or March. The events comprises Ambush Marketing, Ad Spoof, Brand Manager, International Trade and Crisis Management to name a few. The participants of this festival are Undergraduate as well as post-graduate students from around India and its neighboring countries. This festival is organized by the students and professors of the Department of Management (Commerce). •
INSIGNIA, the management festival is held annually in mid February. The top ten commerce colleges of India are invited to fight it out in events like Human Resource Management (HRM), Best Manager, Business Quiz, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Development (ED) among many other events. This festival is organized by the students of the Bachelors of Commerce department (B.Com.). • '''XAVIER'S MANAGEMENT CONVENTION (XMC)''', the management festival is held annually in February or March. XMC is a national festival. It includes events like Stress Interview (SI), B-Quiz (BQ), Business Plans(BP) and Advertising. This festival is organized by the students of the Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) department. •
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARENESS CAMP (EAC), organised by the EDC is an entrepreneurial bootcamp session that spans over two to three days and features speaker sessions by eminent personalities of the startup world, and mentoring and investing sessions for startups that participate in the event from across the country. •
SPECTRUM is the festival of the Department of Physics. It comprises
debate,
quiz,
drama,
lectures by famous
noble laureates and many more. It generally spans for a period of two days. St. Xavier's is the only English medium college to have separate festivals for Hindi and Bengali. •
VIVIDHA, the Hindi festival, comprises events like Drama Competition, Extempore, Elocution etc. The mode of communication throughout the festival is Hindi. This festival is organized by the members of the Hindi Literary Society (HLS). •
XAVULLASH, the Bengali festival, comprises events like Debate, Extempore, Elocution etc. The mode of communication throughout the festival is Bengali. This festival is organized by the members of the Bengali Literary Society (BLS). • The Department of Political Science inaugurated 3 major programmes since 2016 -
SUFFRAGIUM started as the department's annual event. The day starts with the launching of the departmental journal
Politique and offers a Q&A session between the students and the panelists comprising esteemed political scientists and researchers. The day also includes fun activities like Poli-Rattle (Just-A-Minute), Polo-Verse and Expeditious (Political Quiz).
SANSAD is a Mock Parliament wherein students engage in a support/oppose debate on any political agenda acting as a simulation of the Lok Sabha. == Publications ==