Bongaigaon College, Bongaigaon was established on 8th July, 1964. It is one of the higher educational institution in Bongaigaon, Assam.

The college is affiliated to Gauhati University, Guwahati and recognized by the University Grants Commission under 2 (f) of the UGC Act 1956. It is accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

Hisory:

The college had its beginning thanks to a concerted enterprise and initiative of a host of starry-eyed, socially conscious individuals, most notably Late Sitanath Brahmachowdhury, ex- M.P. and ex-President of Assam Sahitya Sabah, the late Bhabeswar Chowdhury, and the late Damodar Mahanta.

The college was accorded the status of deficit grants-in –aid in 1972 by the Government of Assam. Before this the college had run on a self- sustaining basis with many teachers preferring to embrace the sheer nobility of the profession turning back on lucrative opportunities elsewhere.

In the formative stages the college offered pre-university (Arts) programme. Later on a full fledged Pre University Commerce course started in 1984. The undergraduate arts classes got under way in 1966-67 session and the programme got affiliation from Gauhati University in 1971. The Degree Commerce classes started in the year 1978.

Bowing to the public demand for postgraduate course in English, the college authority took steps to begin the two year PG course in the year 1991. Immediately afterwards Gauhati University granted affiliation to the PG programme. Since 2002 the PG course in English is running on semester system.

At present the college offers two programmes at UG level, i.e., B.A and B.Com (three year degree course) and one programme at PG level, i.e. M.A in English. Apart from these a vocational course in Financial Accounting (TALLY) is also offered on self sustaining basis.

The college offers Major programmes in 10 subjects at the BA level and 2 at the B.Com level.

Subjects offering major in BA are: English, Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Bodo, Economics, Political Science, History, Education and Philosophy. At the B.Com level the major courses are offered in Management, Accountancy and Finance.

The college entered into new era of academic studies by introducing Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration from 2008, affiliated to Gauhati University. Subsequent addition was in the form of introducing Bachelors’ programme in Mass Communication and Journalism under the Career Oriented Programme of UGC in the year 2009 with formal permission and affiliation of Gauhati University.

In the year 2008 the college also became remarkable for it signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IGNOU and became the Partner Institute under Convergence Scheme. A series of programmes and courses of distance learning were introduced under the scheme in this campus converging the conventional, and distance modes of teaching-learning

Bongaigaon College has a mission statement to offer an interactionist and value-based education in view of representation from ethnic and community spaces in its rolls, stressing on the dialogic culturalism in approaching academic and intellectual areas disseminated in the classrooms. Moreover, the college perceives that the academic domain should be supported by consciousness enhancing extracurricular activities testing and enriching social and cultural sensibility of students.