Drawing inspiration from sagacious leader of Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, the college was established in January 1956, at Patna High School as Gardanibagh Tutorial College, to be run in the evening shift. The objective was to facilitate academic pursuits of employees working in various epartments during day time. Subsequently, this college was renamed as Anugrah Narayan College (A.N. College) Patna. In 1959, the college was shifted to its new premises. The first principal of the college was Dr. Gorakh Nath Sinha, a great economist and a contemporary of Dr. Hicks, a Nobel Laureate in Economics.
On the personal initiatives of Bihar Vibhuti Anugrah Babu, Patna Improvement Trust provided 19 acres of land to this present site but later on some of the lands were released back to farmers and eventually the college rested with 13 acres of land. The classes were shifted from Anisabad to this premises and thereafter the college blossomed and metamorphosed into present form. The erstwhile governing body had eminent personalities like Sri Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Ex-C.M. of Bihar, Mrs. Kishori Sinha, Ex-M. P., Justice K. B. N. Singh, Justice Birendra Pratap Singh, Dr. Sheo Narayan Singh and Sri Sunil Mukherjee.