Meerut College

Meerut College is a degree college in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, affiliated to Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. The college gives 1892 as its founding year and traces its origins to 1888, when its first principal, W. K. Bonnoud, sought affiliation with the University of Calcutta for a BA programme. It describes a campus of 106 acres with a library of more than three lakh books. NAAC graded the college A (CGPA 3.29 on a four-point scale) in 2012, valid up to 4 July 2017, and B (CGPA 2.31) in its third cycle, valid from 2 November 2018 to 1 November 2023. In its NIRF 2025 data submission the college reported a sanctioned intake of 3,078 undergraduate and 1,406 postgraduate places for 2023-24.

Teaching is organised in five faculties: Arts, Science, Commerce, Education and Law. Undergraduate courses are the B.A. in fourteen subjects, B.Sc. in Biology, Mathematics and Statistics groups, B.Com., B.Ed. and LL.B. Postgraduate courses are the M.A. in thirteen subjects, M.Sc. in six, M.Com., M.Ed. and LL.M. A Department of Professional Studies runs self-financed courses: B.Sc. in Computer Science, Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics and Biotechnology, M.Sc. Computer Science and Foods and Nutrition, B.P.E.S., integrated B.A. LL.B. and B.Com. LL.B., and a one-year PG Diploma in Cyber Crime and Law. Undergraduate admission for 2026-27 follows the NEP 2020 pattern of two major subjects and one minor subject within a chosen faculty, with seats filled through merit lists.