Hamidia Girls Degree College, Allahabad was established in 1975. Its affiliated to University of Allahabad.

with the vision to empower the educationally, socially and economically disadvantaged girls of the minority community.

Adopting “seek knowledge from cradle to grave” as its creed, the five principles of Ilm (knowledge) Amal (practice) Iman (faith) Sadaqat (truthfulness) and Khidmat (service) became its guiding light. Nourished by these values, the college has blossomed into a twin faculty college having Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Commerce.

Hamidia Girls' Degree College is a gradual development of the seed sown by Begum Khursheed Khwaja in 1932 in the form of Hamidia Girls Primary School Under the aegis of The Asociation for the Education of Muslim Women at Allahabad. The seed was continuously nourished by the Association and in 1951, the Primary School turned into an Intermediate College. In 1975, The International Year of Women, Hamidia Girls' Degree College came into existence after the University of Allahabad sanctioned UG Courses in the Faculty of Arts in six subjects.

The college authorities worked relentlessly to add more subjects and faculties. Presently there are three faculties - Faculty of Arts, Commerce and Vocations. In the Faculty of Arts fourteen subjects-twelve conventional subjects and two vocational are operative at the UG level. At PG Level, in 2016 the college was granted PG courses in six subjects - Urdu, English Literature, Medieval History, Sociology, Education and Arabic. PG Classes in Education & Arabic shall start from 2018-19. Recently in 2018, the University has also sanctioned Research Degree Programme (PhD) in Urdu. In 2002, Faculty of Commerce was added when the college received the approval from the University to start B.Com Classes on self-financed basis. Giving impetus to vocational education the college has added one more faculty-Faculty of Vocations under National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF). in 2014, The University Grants Commission of India Sanctioned B.Voc in two trades - Journalism & Mass Communication and Fashion Designing & Embroidery. In the session 2017-2018, the college was extended one more trade in B.Voc - Software Technology.

VISION

The Vision of the College is 'To make it a globally acknowledged competitive centre of excellence by providing modern, scientific, technological and value-based education accessible to the under-privileged girls of the minority community as well as other underserved segments of the society and to bring them into the mainstream of national development.

MISSION

* Empowerment and emancipation of the girl students.

* Delivering quality education to the underserved segments of the society.

* Extending equal opportunities and access to higher education.

* Preparing graduates for mutli-linguistic and multi-cultural workplace setting.

* Holistic development through curricula and extra curricula activities.

* Infusing a spirit of secular values and nationalism.

COLLEGE MOTTO

"Seek Knowledge from Cradle to Grave".