Government Nagarjuna Post Graduate College of Science

Government Nagarjuna Post Graduate College of Science is a government science college on G.E. Road, Raipur, affiliated to Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University. It opened as Science College on 2 August 1948 with seven subjects in the Government Multipurpose Higher Secondary School, Chotapara; the present building was inaugurated on 18 July 1954 by Pt. Ravishankar Shukla. The college was first affiliated to Dr Hari Singh Gaur University, Sagar, and moved to Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University in 1964. It became a Model College in 1984 and an autonomous college in 1987, and the UGC recognised it as a College with Potential for Excellence in 2010. The UGC lists it under Sections 2(f) and 12(B) as Govt. Nagarjuna P.G. College of Science, the name that replaced Govt. College of Science, Raipur in 2010. The college describes itself as the lead college of Raipur.

The college has 14 departments: Bio-Chemistry, Bio-Technology, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Defence, English, Geology, Hindi, Information Technology, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics and Zoology. Its third-cycle NAAC self-study report, submitted on 30 November 2020, states 11 PG programmes, 15 UG combinations and seven research centres, with BCA, DCA and PGDCA also taught. For NIRF 2025 the college reported sanctioned intakes for 2023-24 of 884 in four-year UG programmes, 50 in three-year UG programmes and 280 in two-year PG programmes. The campus covers about 43.25 acres and includes Geology, Defence, Botany and Zoology museums, hostels, NCC infantry, air wing and signals units, and an NSS unit.