Debraj Roy College came into being in the wake of independence of the country around 1949. In the post independence period, there was a surging atmosphere of great joy and excitement all over the country and this tempo was also felt in an isolated and sleepy town like Golaghat. There was a craze for higher education among all sections of the people, particularly the students. At that time, there w
as only one college at Jorhat for the upper Assam region. Higher education was out of reach for the general students of this educationally backward district. This consideration led some spiriled persons of the district to establish a college at Golaghat.The institution may be regarded as the brain child of Ayodhya Prasad Goswami, who was a student leader, Biplobi Bir Sankar Baruah, a revolutionary leader of the freedom movement, Golap Ch. Goswami, Dr. Promodaviram Das, Jadunath Saikia, etc. The college was named after the late Debraj Roy, the founder of Bogidhala Tea & Trading Company, Goalghat, in whose memory his son Surendra Nath Ray, the then M.D. of Bogidhala Tea & Trading Company, donated an amount for the construction of the main building of the college. Academics
Besides Higher Secondary classes for both arts and science streams the college offers option for studies at under graduate level (Three Year Degree Course) both in Science and humanities. The college has provisions for major course in all the subjects. Besides college having career oriented courses finance by UGC on following subjects:-
(a) Pisciculture. (b) Food Processing (c) Photography and Electronics.[2]
Departments
There are as many as 15 academic departments in the college which offer both major and core courses in science as well as arts streams. The academic departments of the college are:
English
Assamese
Political Science
History
Education
Economics
Philosophy
Botany
Zoology
Physics
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Computer Science
Mathematics and
Statistics
Recognition and Accreditation
Debraj Roy College is recognised under 2f and 12b sections of the UGC Act 1956 and has been accredited with A grade by NAAC (CGPA 3.11) in 2011.[3] It was also declared by UGC as a "College with Potential for Excellence" in the year 2010.
