Bihar National College is a constituent unit of

Patna University Patna University is a public state university in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established on 1 October 1917 during the British Raj. It is the first university in Bihar and the seventh oldest university in the Indian subcontinent in the modern er ...

. It is a multi-faculty college and offers courses in Science, Humanities, and Arts at graduate level. It is a post-graduate college but post-graduate teaching has been stopped for many years due to an insufficient number of teachers. At present there are 42 faculty members.

History

Bihar National College came into being with its status raised to second grade college in year 1889 by the government canto and tobakachi. It was founded as a high school by Babu Bisheshwar Singh in 1883. Later it was raised to the status of

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degree level in 1907 imparting degrees both in

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and

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

Campus

The college is situated in central

Patna Patna ( ), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...

close to

Gandhi Maidan Gandhi Maidan is a historic ground in Patna, near the banks of the Ganges River, in Bihar, India. The Golghar falls to its west. During the period of 1824–1833, under British rule, it was used as a golf course and horse racing track and was c ...

with the river

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flowing south of it. A hostel facility is also available.Bihar National College on Google Maps
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References

Colleges affiliated to Patna University Universities and colleges in Patna Educational institutions established in 1889 1889 establishments in India {{Bihar-university-stub