It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in arts, sciences and vocational degree in Tourism & Aviation Management.

Teachers and students of this college also played an important role in the freedom movement of India.

Five students of this college, namely, Dinesh Gupta, Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya, Mrigendranath Dutta, Brajakishore Chakraborty, and Nirmal Jivan Ghosh, became martyr during the indian independence movement.

Recently University Grants Commission has given Midnapore College an autonomous status from 2014 to 2015 Session.

Arts faculty consists of departments of Bengali, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, History, Geography, Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Physical Education & Sports, Education, and Yoga.

The socio-economic culture has a direct influence from the students come to study at Midnapore.

Students who cannot undergo formal studies, can pursue bachelor and postgraduate degree from distance education centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Basic science research takes place in the Midnapore College centre for Scientific Culture which is set up by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers.

Midnapore college library has large number of collections for which it may be used as a research centre.