St. Andrew's College, Gorakhpur

St. Andrew's College is a co-educational, grant-in-aid degree college on Civil Court Road, near the Collectorate Court in Civil Lines, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. It began in 1828 as a mission school of the Church Missionary Society and became a college in 1899. The Lucknow Diocese of the Church of North India runs it through the St. Andrew's College Association, whose Governing Body is chaired by the Bishop of Lucknow. The college was affiliated to Allahabad University from 1899 to 1927 and to Agra University from 1927 to 1958; since 1958 it has been affiliated to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, which records it under college code 753. The cover of its 2026-27 prospectus describes it as a College with Potential for Excellence of the University Grants Commission and a Star College of the Ministry of Science and Technology (DBT).

Teaching is organised in the faculties of Arts, Science, Law, Education and Commerce, with departments of Economics, Education, English, Geography, Hindi, History, Law, Physical Education, Political Science, Sociology, Commerce, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Sanskrit, Psychology, Urdu and Computer Science. The university's record for the college lists B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., M.A., M.Sc. and B.Ed. courses; the B.Ed. is a self-financed programme approved by NCTE. The college reports 45 classrooms, 5 computer rooms and a moot court to the university. Admission for the 2026-27 session is through the college's own online entrance examination, with registration, fee payment, admit card and result handled on its entrance portal.