Dinhata College is the maiden College in Dinhata Subdivision, one of the largest subdivisions in Cooch Behar District. With its population of about seven hundred thousand, as per the 2011 census report, the Subdivision has to depend upon this institute for providing its young generation the light of higher education. Since its foundation in 1956, the College has been trying its best to fulfil its duty of providing higher education mostly to the first generation learners coming largely from rural background and Scheduled Caste communities and Muslim minorities.