Purni Devi Chaudhuri Girls' College (PDCGC), Santiniketan was established in 2004.

It is a Govt. Aided College and affiliated to Burdwan University.

The College was established to promote higher education in this area and is providing the needs of higher and quality education of the local people.

The College offers under graduate courses in Arts stream.

The college was founded with a mission to provide excellence in education at the undergraduate level to the students of all communities and especially to the financially backward students in Birbhum district.