University B.T. & Evening College (UBTEC), Cooch Behar was established in 1968 & its affiliated to the North Bengal University.

The University BT & Evening College is situated in the heritage city of Cooch Behar, capital of the erstwhile princely state that merged with West Bengal after the independence of India. The present address of the college is Keshab Road, Gunjabari, on the grounds where the old palace of the Narayan kings existed, before it was demolished in the nineteenth century and the royal family shifted to the new palace built in 1887, during the reign of Maharaja Sri Nripendra Narayan.

The University BT & Evening College, a constituent college of the University of North Bengal was established on 25th August 1968 with a view to giving teachers’ training and helping the local youth to earn their first degree.

The classes began at Cooch Behar Uchcha Madhyamik Vidyalaya at Madan Mohan Colony, Kalighat Road in the suburban area of Cooch Behar initially. The first Principal of the college was Prof S. N. Basak, Head, Dept. of Economics who came on deputation from the University.

The college was shifted to the present site (at Junior Polytechnic Institute) in the year 1972 when Prof. N. C. Bhowmick (who came on lien from Jalpaiguri A. C. College of Commerce) was the Principal. The Junior Polytechnic Institute was then hired by the University on rental basis. The land and building were later handed over to the college.

This is an undergraduate, co-educational college. The college was started as a teacher's training institute as a constituent college of University of North Bengal and later degree courses were started in the evening to help the working students.

The college is accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and recognized by the UGC under 2(f) & 12(b).

The college has state-of-the-art technologies and infrastructure. The University has played a pioneering role since inception in spreading higher education and scientific attitudes within the predominantly rural areas that comprise its vast jurisdictional territory.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

The college endeavours to :

• work for the all round development of the students in the backward region of North Bengal.
• engineer the process of social development consistent with local needs and demands.
• train graduates/postgraduates in the art and science of teaching.
• help the youth to earn their first degree.
• imbibe democratic values in the society.
• enable the youth to serve the society better by promoting the ideas of fraternity and national integration.
• foster international understanding.
• enable the students to meet the future challenges of the society.
• create a zeal among the students to work for the society.
• create visionaries of the future.