Jangipur College is situated in a semi-urban locality of the district of Murshidabad in West Bengal having a campus area of 5.05 acres. The College was estabished in August 1950 with Intermediate Classes. Undergraduate courses were started in the college from the academic session 1956-1957. The college was set up with the objective of imperting higher education mainly to the backward rural population comprising SC, ST ,Minority Communities and women of the locality and to contribute to the educational, social, cultural and economic upliftment of the people of Jangipur.