The college admits both undergraduates and postgraduates and awards degrees in liberal arts, commerce, sciences, business administration and education under the purview of Agra University.

The foundation stone of the Centenary Wing was laid by Bharat Ratna Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, former president of India in 1957 and was inaugurated by the prime minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru, on 9 October 1959.

(Urdu), postgraduate diploma in clinical psychology and two partially self-financed degree programmes in B.Sc.

The foundation stone of the Centenary Wing was laid by Bharat Ratna Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, former president of India, in 1957 and was inaugurated by the prime minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru, on 9 October 1959.

Residence halls The college's halls of residence are spread across two blocks, named for former principals, as given below: The St. John's college has a central library with over 90,000 books, a reading room open access and a reference section for post-graduate and research student, most of the departments have departmental library for post-graduate students.

The college library also provides INFLIBNET facility to the faculty members, research scholars and post graduate students to consult more than 80,000 e-journals and e-books.

Students can take vocational courses in foreign trade, advertising and sales promotion, insurance, computer science, demography, yoga psychology and mental health and communicative English.

Students club and societies engage in activities concerned with debating, dramatics, photography, social services, quizzing, 'dumcherade', 'antakshri' etc.

The various societies in colleges are:- St. John's College Agra has produced many distinguished personalities, including one President of India, two Governor of states, one nominee for the Nobel Prize, Indian ambassador to United States of America and many IAS, IFS and IRS officers.