Government Post Graduate College, Swabi is the largest college in the Swabi District of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. To overcome the difficulties of the students of Swabi, the government of West Pakistan opened an Inter College in 1962, which was later on upgraded to degree level in 1964. Initially, Pre-medical and Pre-Engineering classes were offered when the college was founded as an Inter College. After two years, Bachelor's degree courses were offered in Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics, and Physics. With the passage of time, other courses were offered both on inter and degree level and thus the college became the only largest college. Later on, Maulana Fazal Ali Haqqani, Education Minister of NWFP, upgraded the college to post-graduate level in 2003.
History
Before 1962, the students of Swabi were compelled to study at Government College, Mardan due to the lack of any college in the area. So to overcome this difficulty, Begum Mehmooda Sultan, the then Minister of Education for West Pakistan, notified her per directives for the construction of an Inter College in Swabi. Yousafzais of Swabi, gave an entire plot of land of 110 Kanals to the government for the construction of the college, at Village Gohaati, situated along the main road joining Swabi to Mardan. The land given for the college's construction was situated on the left bank of the famous Upper Swat Canal. Once the land was donated, the government started its construction and was finished within one year. Soon the classes were started on inter level for the students in 1963.
In 1984, the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, English, Urdu, Islamiat, Pakistan Studies, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics, Political Science, Law, Arabic, Statistics, Economics, and Pushto were allowed to offer bachelor's degrees, to offer higher quality education to the area. Similarly other facilities, like Students' transport, library, halls of residence, and refectory were upgraded. In 2004, the disciplines of Geography and Computer Sciences were started.