West Goalpara College

Goalpara College is an institution of higher learning in western Assam, India, established on 8 August 1955 with the help and cooperation of local people, starting with 6 lecturers and 22 students under principal Wazuddin Ahmed. It was founded to serve students on the south bank of the Brahmaputra who lacked access to higher education, as the only degree college was at Dhubri. The college got a permanent building in 1959 and was brought under the deficit grant-in-aid system in 1962, with a science faculty introduced in 1966. Today it has 16 departments and 110 staff, offering three-year degree courses in Science and Arts leading to BSc and BA, along with Higher Secondary courses. It is affiliated to Gauhati University and provides distance education through IGNOU, KKHSOU, and IDOL. The campus spans about 10 acres and includes a library with around 27,000 books. The college caters to about 2000 students, received NAAC A+ accreditation in 2023, and has received grants from FIST and DBT schemes. It has hostels for boys and girls with 50 seats each.