It is a higher secondary school and also a degree awarding college of National University, Bangladesh.

Its academic activities as a college started at a Portuguese-merchant-built building beside the Parade Ground.

From then it started providing honours degrees on Arabic, Bengali, Pali, Sanskrit, history, mathematics, physics and chemistry.

But, it reintroduced honours courses on English, Bangla, economics, physics, chemistry and mathematics in 1960.

[3] The college teaches honours and offers master's degrees in 17 subjects (present 2018).

one of them used as a foreign language teaching inclusive arts and an ICT (information and communication technology) lab based building.

Current activities include Programming and Problem Solving, IoT and Robotics, Web Development and Graphic Design, and Data Science and Machine Learning.