The college was established in 1961 with science education in higher secondary and under graduate levels.

Presently, three portions, about 50 acres altogether, have been carved out to house a water reservoir, Doordharshan Kendra Kohima and music academy.

It has a large repository of books, journals, national and international magazines, newspapers, past exam question papers and project reports.

The college is a registered user of UGC-NLIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) Programme, a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development under its National Mission on Education through ICT.

The N-LIST project provides access to more than 3800 journals, 80000 electronic books and bibliographic databases to students, researchers and faculty, and also allows authorized users to download articles directly from the publisher's website.