Harish Chandra Post Graduate College

Harish Chandra Post Graduate College is a government-aided college at Maidagin, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, run by the Harish Chandra Vidyalaya Samiti, a charitable society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. Bharatendu Harishchandra started it in 1866 as a school with five students; high school classes were running by 1910, intermediate classes began in 1939 and undergraduate classes in arts and commerce on 4 October 1951. Law classes were recognised in 1958 and B.Ed. classes began in 1960. The college was first affiliated to Banaras Hindu University, then to the University of Gorakhpur in 1960 and to Purvanchal University, Jaunpur in 1987-88; since 2009-10 it is affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. The college falls under sections 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act. NAAC's first-cycle grade B (2011) was valid from 30 November 2011 to 29 November 2016.

The college has faculties of Arts, Humanity and Social Science, Language, Science, Commerce, Education and Law, and about 6,900 students are reported in its NIRF 2026 data. Undergraduate programmes are B.A. (with self-financed B.A. Education and B.A. Sociology), B.Sc. in the mathematics and biology groups, B.Com., BBA, BCA, LL.B. and B.Ed. Postgraduate programmes are M.A. in Hindi, English, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Mathematics and Statistics, M.Sc. in Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Physics, Mathematics and Statistics, and M.Com. Admission to first-year B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., LL.B. and all postgraduate courses is through entrance tests held by the college; B.Ed. admission is through the Uttar Pradesh state entrance test.