[1] The MPBSE is a Madhya Pradesh government body responsible for determining the policy-related, administrative, cognitive, and intellectual direction of the state's higher educational system.

The board regulates and supervises the system of Intermediate education in Madhya Pradesh State.

It executes and governs various activities that include devising of courses of study, prescribing syllabus, conducting examinations, granting affiliations to colleges.

mp board has announced syllabus deduction up to 40% on 25 sep 2023 for class 12. this includes humanities science and commerce stream for class 10 it would remain the same as per government order The Madhya Pradesh Legislature, in the sixteenth year of the Republic of India, enacted an Act for the establishment of a Board in order to regulate Secondary Education in Madhya Pradesh and other ancillary matters.

In 1965 this autonomous body was established under The Madhya Pradesh Secondary Education Act, 1965.