The college was established in the year 1979. From a hired building of Madan Mohan High School, Kongba Bazar, the make-shift arrangements continued till the college took its final shape in the year 1981 when it got its present location at Dhobi Lampak, a little distance from Kongba Bazar along Imphal-Yairipok road, with generous donation in cash and kind and contribution of the local people under the supervision of governing body with Shri Nongmaithem Bijoy Singh as the first Secretary. The college owns about eight (8) acres of land as college campus and the first Foundation Stone was laid down on 3rd Nov. of the same year by Shri. Rishang Keising, the then Hon’ble Dy. Chief Minister of Manipur and Shri I. Tompok Singh, the then Hon’ble Education Minster. The college is co-educational having both Arts and Science disciplines.
The college has more than 40 feeder villages consisting of eighteen (18) S/T and three (3) S/C villages and more than twenty two (22) feeder schools. Today the college is expanding its academic activities and has improved much in its infrastructures.
VISION: The vision of the institution is to pursuit excellence in higher education, character building, and total development of personality to mould into a responsible citizenship.
Strategies to achieve these goals:
Pursuit of Excellence:
(a) Optimum transparency in admission of students upholding merit as the foremost criterion.
(b) Maintenance of work culture environment.
c) Discipline combined with freedom of thought and expression
(d) A sense of national consciousness.
Character building: It is woven into the total learning environment. Students are encouraged to be honest and hardworking, courteous in behavior towards all, faculty members to be caring and responsive, and emphasis is laid on personal dignity as well as simplicity and austerity in the total life of the college.
Total Development of Personality: Class-room teaching is complemented with a wide range of co-curricular activities, through NSS and College Student Union where students work under the supervision of teachers, however with considerable freedom and initiative. The balance between freedom and responsibility is maintained. The students understand ‘discipline’ as the ability to uphold universal values in day-to-day work and conduct. Attitudes to life based on expediency or self-aggrandizement are discouraged. Discipline is balanced with freedom, lest it gets equated with mere conformity, which is undermines personality development.
MISSION: The mission of Standard College is to educate young men and women within a framework of liberal and republican values, to equip them to excel in the service of the nation.
Communication: The vision and goals stated above are communicated to the entire student body in two broad ways. (a) by transferring the vision to the teaching fraternity through frequent interactions that are informal in nature (b) A more formal strategy is used in respect of the students. Innumerable scholarly activities –including seminars and workshops-are organized to reinforce this. In all of these, students and teachers work closely together. Tutorials and lectures are conducted with utmost regularity. Teacher truancy is virtually absent in campus. This total ambience distinguished by an earnest and dedicated attitude to work as well as to the welfare of students is the most powerful communication there can be.
Vision for the future :To create an environment where all round development of the individual is promoted with dignity, principally through right relationships with the whole of creation and rich heritage of the religiously diverse country.