Cotton College, Guwahati was established in the year 1901 by Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, the then Chief Commissioner of the erstwhile province of Assam, with the noble mission of promoting the cause of higher education in the North-East region of India. Spread over a sprawling campus covering an area of 33.474 acres in the heart of the city of Guwahati, Cotton College, Guwahati is located about 25 kilometers away from the Gopi Nath Bordoloi International Airport, Borjhar and is about 1 kilometer away from the Assam State Transport Corporation Office and Guwahati Rail way station. The college that started in 1901 with 5 professors and 39 students, is today a premier educational institute of Assam with 244 teachers and 5000 students on its rolls. Rated as an A-grade College by the NAAC, Cotton College, Guwahati has 21 undergraduate and 20 post graduate departments in science, humanities and social science faculties. For over a century,the Cotton College has been the center for breeding academic culture and literary renaissance of North-East India, a symbol of hope and aspiration of all forward-looking people of this part of the country.
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