History
A cadet college is an institution following the model of English public schools. The Pakistan government established the first cadet college in 1954 before the liberation of Bangladesh. In 1979, Rangpur Cadet College was established as the sixth cadet college of Bangladesh. The former Rangpur Residential Model High School was converted into a cadet college with some infrastructural modification. The land now owned by the college is partially taken from the Carmichael College, an educational college which stands beside it. The college started with its first three batches (called the intake) in 7th, 8th and 9th grade in 1979. Cadet Hossain Sohel Shahnewaz was the first College Prefect of the CCR (who was assassinated on the February 25, 2009 in the BDR mutiny). From 2003, English was introduced as the medium of education as per a government decision to convert the cadet colleges into English medium. The 28th intake was the first batch in English medium.
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