Rangpur Carmichael College, a traditional and prestigious educational institution setup during the British regime in undivided Bengal is still playing a challenging role in the education sector.
The institute has already gone through 88 long years educating millions of students since its inception in 1916. In 1922 Lord Liton on a visit to the college remarked on the visitor's book as "...my greatest pleasure in visiting this institution was promoting the B.Sc. classes during my tenure..."
Among the principals, the most remarkable were Dr. Watkins, Dr. D.N. Mallick, and Dev Proshad Ghosh.
In 1955 the students and teachers of the Bengali department of Carmichael College formed a literature union under the name "Samajderer Ashore". The activities of said organisation continued for next five years. Founder president was poet Mohammed Sultan, a close friend of Kazi Nazrul Islam.
In the 1940s there were 1,000 students in Carmichael college. Of them only 25 percent were Muslims. Despite individual colleges in Bihar and Assam many of the students migrated to Carmichael only because of the reputation it yielded. During this period the female students were from the Hindu community and others found it difficult to outbeat the Hindu students' merit.