St. Edmund's College, often abbreviated as SEC, is an educational institute of the Congregation of Christian Brothers located in Shillong, Meghalaya, India.

The history of St. Edmund's College, Shillong is intermingled with the brave efforts of the Germans and the Irish.

[4] The Christian Brothers were invited to Shillong in 1915 and St. Edmund's College was founded by the Irish Christian Brothers in 1916 as a higher secondary school and was recognised by the Cambridge University for examination up to Higher School Certificate level.

The college finally opened on 6 October 1916 by the Chief Commissioner of Assam and an educationist, sir Archdale Earle, with 32 boarders and 8 day scholars.

[4] When the Government of India Act 1919 was passed, the college got affiliated with Calcutta University for Intermediate Arts (I.A.)

Located in Laitumkhrah, Shillong, St. Edmund's College has a campus with many buildings and sports facilities.

The campus stretches up to near Laitumkhrah Bazar in the north-eastern side, traverses towards the north-west up to near the Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians.

In between, the northern perimeter is dotted by important institutions and landmarks such as Bethany Society, NCC Office, Mary Rice School, Don Bosco Mini Stadium, etc.

The activities of career related information relating to fields like Chartered Accountants (CA), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICWA), Company Secretary (CS) etc.

The cell used to coordinate placement related activities conducted by organizations that used to voluntarily visit the campus for recruitment purpose.

Since its inception the centre is engaged in bioinformatics research and also initiating various training programmes catering to the needs of the undergraduate students in life science and also the faculty members.

Beside these the centre is also engaged in high throughput biotechnology research with a young dedicated faculty and has substantially contributed to the basic science streams pertaining to the needs of students.

Any member can log on to the website and browse their collection and request the required books on social sciences, American literature, management, environment and information technology.

Apart from providing book services the library also includes From 2013, St. Edmund's College maintains three hostels, namely Brother O' Leary Residence (also known as the B.T.

J. I. O'Leary of the Congregation of Irish Christian Brothers as a post-graduate residence for students attending Bachelor of Teaching (B.T.)

Brothers E. X. Leonard, J. N. Foley, R. B. Vieyra, M. G. Shannon, and W. D' Souza, A. F. Pinto, E. V. Miranda and L. D. Lobo.

The old library (above the students and staff canteen) was selected as the place where the new gym would come up, primarily because of its size (approx 3000 sq.

The entire area has wall-to-wall carpeting and big-sized mirrors are fixed on the walls to give an even more spacious look.

A 21-station multi-gym opened in April 2010 along with plates and dumbbells bars, stands, racks and benches.

The college has 19 teaching Departments covering in the fields of Arts, Science and Commerce and two other training programmes.

The faculty or arts has 10 departments: Bengali, English, Economics, Geography, Hindi, History, Khasi, Nepali, Political Science and Sociology.

The department of Science consists of Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Mathematics, Physics and Zoology and the faculty of Commerce, a fully self-financing faculty, has just one departmental unit of Commerce.

College week is marked by the opening of folk dance performed by the different tribes of SEC students.