The renowned mathematician Asutosh Mukherjee with a deep dream did establish this college. Asutosh College is affiliated under University of Calcutta. The college has a rich heritage that contributes to its own culture. The College was built up in the year 1916 under the leadership of Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, the famous mathematician, educationist and the then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. The College was then known as South Suburban College and was housed at a rented premise. When Sir Asutosh passed away in 1924, the college was renamed after him. The Asutosh College shifted to its current location in 1935. The college is located at 92, S.P.Mukherjee Road, Kolkata-700026.

The present college building has a premise of forty thousand square feet and more than fifty classrooms which can contain about 4000 students. Twenty-seven subjects are taught as honors/ Major at the Undergraduate level. In the year 2002, a post graduation course in Environmental Science was introduced. All the departments have their own libraries and well-organized laboratories for Science departments.

The courses offered by the college are Bengali, English, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Sanskrit, Psychology, Journalism and Mass Communication for B.A. (Hons), B.A. (Major) in Communicative English. B.A. For B.Sc. Honors Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Electronics, Geology, Geography, Zoology, Botany, Psychology, Biochemistry and Microbiology are offered. B.Sc. Major course is Industrial Fish and Fisheries. BBA honors course is also offered in the Asutosh College.

The college contains huge faculties comprising more than hundred and fifty teachers both as full time and guest faculty. Many of the faculties teach at the postgraduate level as guest faculties and pursue research in different universities of the State.

For admission the students can collect the admission form in person from the College. Each candidate can apply for a maximum of 3 courses. The Students eligible for direct admission should contact the respective department.

The College has a job placement cell that organizes campus interviews to facilitate job proposals for the final year students. Dr. Mainak Gupta and Smt. Rupa Bhattacharya head this placement cell. Many renowned companies came for spot interview and several students of the final year have been placed as Program-Trainees, Process-Executives etc. The college is a member of NEN--National Entrepreneurship Network. Wadhwani Foundation has founded it in 2002 and it is a no-profit initiative working to inspire, educate, support, new and future entrepreneurs in India. It has been co-founded by IIT-Bombay, IIT-Ahmedabad, BITS Pilani, SP Jain Institute of management and research, Bombay and IBAB, Bangalore. Faculties from Stanford, Harvard Business School and other international institutes contribute to NEN`s resources. Dr. Mainak Gupta and Dr. Debdas Roy handle this unit of the College. The Asutosh College Training Centre was established in 1993 in the Premise of 10, Basanta Bose Road, Kol -26, adjacent to the main college Building. It is commonly called the Annexe Building. The former Principal Dr. Subhankar Chakravorty opined that the traditional syllabus oriented education should be supplemented by some career-oriented courses to cater to the modern day demands. Accordingly in January 1993, the first two units of ACTC were opened - these are Computer Training and Higher Services Training.

Presently the ACTC offers the following courses:
a) Preparatory Training for WBCS Examination.
b) Preparatory Training for School Service Commission Examinations.
c) Preparatory Training for NET, SLET (only 1st paper in Arts & Commerce stream)
d) Career Counselling (in collaboration with career for U)
e) Certificate course in Export-Import Management [in association with EBDCI, an Export - Import Promotional Company]
f) One year Certificate Course in Management (Assisted by Peerless)
i) One year Business Management (Affiliated to WBSCTE)
ii) One year Marketing Management (Affiliated to WBSCTE)
iii) One year Travel & Tourism Management
g) Diploma Course in Management of safety Engineering (Affiliated to WBSCTE)
h) DOEACC A, O, C
i) Advanced DTP
j) Internet & Web Page Designing
k) Multimedia
l) `C` and Unix
m) Visual Basic
n) Financial Accounting
o) Hardware Engineering [Accredited by the Dept. of Electronics. Govt. of India & recognized by AICTE]