It is located in Patna, the state capital city, on a 13 acres (53,000 m2) site.

A constituent unit of Patliputra University, the college was established in January, 1956 and its first principal was economist Dr. Gorak Nath Sinha.

renamed as Anugrah Narayan College in honour of Bihar Vibhuti Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, one of the founders of modern Bihar, In 1959 the college moved to a rented building in Anisabad.

when the Patna Improvement Trust provided it with 19 acres (77,000 m2) of land, following the intervention of Sinha.

Many new courses in fields such as electronics and environmental sciences were introduced during the 1980s on the initiative of the University Grants Commission and the Government of Bihar,[citation needed]