The Department of Education was established in the year 1959 and is in the second floor of the MCB building of Cotton University .It was then a new subject and Dr. Lakshahira Das, an eminent personality of Assam, shouldered the responsibility of the department as Head of the Department. In 1985 Education Department was upgraded into a PG Department in erstwhile Cotton College. Currently the department of Education offers M.A. and B.A. in Education