Government College Mananthavady started functioning with two pre-degree batches in a temporary building attached to the St. Sebastian's Church honichal on 1 September 1981. Having completed 32 years of valuable service, the college now offers degree programmes in Commerce, English Literature, Development Economics and Electronics and a PG Programme in Commerce. The college aims to mould the students into better individuals, and guide them to contribute constructively towards national goals by upholding the values of secularism, national integration and social commitment and to make them intellectually competent, morally upright, psychologically integrated, physically healthy and acceptable to the society.