Balurghat College, Dakshin Dinajpur was established in 1948. It is affiliated to University of North Bengal.

as an intermediate liberal arts college, with 96 students in the tin-sheds of Balurghat High School under the Calcutta University on the initiative of the large hearted educationists of the town who took regular classes in the afternoon.

In 1949, the College was shifted to the present site in the vacant Muslim Hostels of Balurghat School along with its land that was purchased by the College at a cost of Rupees forty thousand only.

North Bengal University accepted the college as a constituent college in 2003.

Presently the College is affiliated under University of Gaur Banga from the academic year 2008. Today, the college has grown into a degree college of over 3000 student, with undergraduate education in Arts, Sciences and Commerce. 

VISION

Balurghat College, West Bengal, envisions a life-oriented education that empowers the students through a humanizing and liberating process, to be agents of transformation and development at different levels of life. Enabled and empowered, they respond pro-actively to concerns and conflicts inherent in today’s reality, especially those of women and persons who are unable to exercise their freedom to be human, and work for the integrity of creation

MISSION

• To promote a value based education.
• To contributed to the transformation of society through being socially conscious and responsible.
• To promote inter-cultural and inter-religious harmony and concern for the human family.
• To facilitate leadership among the students enabling them to proactively involve themselves in social liberation.
• To provide quality, integral, vocational and career oriented education and create a climate for human and educational excellence.
• To work towards the integrity of creation and foster inter connectedness, kinship and eco-justice.

CORE VALUES

Balurghat College, the premier educational institution, has been continously fostering the all round growth of the students ommunity since 1948. The values of the College instills among the students, administration by promoting value based education in this materialistic world.

• Quest of Excellence.
• Empowering through Education.
• Social Responsibility.
• Communal harmony and Integrity.
• Equality of Opportunity.
• Administration & Regulation.
• Accountability.