Karim City College is a Muslim Minority Institution run and managed by Karim’s Trust, Jamshedpur. The college is permanently affiliated to Kolhan University, Chaibasa. It has been recognised under 2 (f) and 12 (b) of the UGC. At present the college has 5195 students, 91 teaching staff and 72 non-teaching staff. It runs 21 UG Programmes (including 05 vocational/professional programmes) 07 PG Programmes (including 1 vocational programme) and 01 PG Diploma Programme. Founded in 1961 by Late Syed Tafazzul Karim with the aim of promoting educational upliftment of the weaker sections of the society, especially the Muslim minorities, the college began with pre-university courses and degree courses were launched in the year 1963. The college got its affiliation in 1965 with the Ranchi University and after the creation of Kolhan University in 2010 the college came under the jurisdiction of the present parent university i.e. Kolhan University, Chaibasa. The college was among the first few colleges of Jharkhand when it first went for NAAC assessment and accreditation in 2004. It has got B+, B++ & B+ grades in its previous NAAC cycles and in the coming months it is going to be its 4th cycle, again a rare achievement among the colleges of Jharkhand. In the last twenty years, after its first cycle of accreditation, the college has witnessed a steady course of progress. In the year 2010 the college was accorded CPE status by the UGC and in 2018-19 it was among the first 30 colleges of the state that got grants in RUSA 1. In the year 2013 the college established its new campus at Mango, Distt. East Singhbhum and shifted its Faculty of Education there. The college is consistent in its academic progress and the students are doing well with regard to academic results, placements, literary, cultural & extension activities. The college is zealously promoting co-curricular activities, use of ICT in teaching-learning and administration, and digitisation. It is constantly striving to promote research activities among its teachers. Discipline constitutes an important institutional concern and Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) is also a major area of activity. Today, the institution is proud to have its alumni being spread across all parts of the country and abroad, rendering their services to the society in various professional capacities.