A student seeking admission to the college has to register online by visiting college website www.kgc.edu.in fill up the form and submit (online). Candidates applying for both Science and Arts must apply online separately for both the streams. While applying online the candidates must create his/her own ID and password which should not be lost at any cost as it shall be used for future admissions and examination form fill-ups in the college. Candidates must attach the scanned copies of testimonials and must produce the original copies of those at the time of verification. Candidate must produce all original documents from H.S.L.C. onwards during the time of verification. Selected candidates are to get themselves admitted on the fixed date and time by paying requisite fees, failing which his/ her seat shall be forfeited. The seats available shall immediately be allotted to the candidates in order of merit from the merit/ waiting list. If a forged document submitted by a candidate is detected even after admission, the admission will stand cancelled. The admission committee (Selection Committee) has every right to refuse admission if the candidate fails to produce the original document at the time of verification. The payment of College and Hostel admission fees will be made through BHIM app/ swiping of ATM/ Debit Card etc. in digital mode.

The college caters the need of 6th schedule (Constitution of India) area. Hence, 60% of seats are reserved for S.T (Plains & Hills) and 40% seats for Open, OBC, SC etc, as per the rules of Govt. of Assam. To encourage students in extra-curricular activities, the College entertains special quota in: Sports, Culture, NCC, NSS, Scouts & Guides.

For each course TDC (Arts & Science) the maximum number of reserved seats are as follows:

Sports: 2%, Cultural: 1%, NCC/Scouts/Guide: 1%, Wards of College Employee: 1%

Outstanding sports person / cultural artists/ NCC cadets/ Scouts & Guides who have records of representing the country in National/ International Meet will be admitted directly without considering the cut-off mark / credit point. However, the number of reserved seats in a particular field will not be increased for adjusting more candidates of such category.

Sports person will be selected from those disciplines which are recognised by the governing authorities of various sports e.g., IOC/IOA in case of athletics, FIFA/AIFF in case of football, ICC/BCCI in case of cricket, etc. and also such sports which are included in GU Inter College Meets and All India University Meets.

In case of cultural quota, candidates will be selected from their proficiency in the fields of Music (Vocal and Instrumental), Dance, Drama, Debate and Quiz, Fine Arts and Sculpture.

There is a provision of reservation of 3 % of the total seats for physically challenged candidates subject to the produce of valid certificate from competent authority.

Fringe village candidates must submit their relevant residential certificate to avail the benefit of fringe village quota.

A student shall be selected for admission strictly on merit basis. Merit will be considered on the basis of marks obtained in the qualifying examination i.e. for H.S. course Mark sheet of H.S.L.C. or equivalent examination and for degree course Mark sheets of H.S. Final or its equivalent examinations. Selection of candidates for admission will be done by an admission committee headed by the Principal, the committee being constituted by the college authority. The decision of the Admission Committee in selection of candidates shall be final and binding. The committee will prepare the merit lists separately for each category. Candidates will be selected in order of merit maintaining the college reservation policy for each Honours subject separately. For this purpose, a separate merit list will be prepared for each Honours subject from among the applicants. For ranking an applicant in order of merit, the criterion will be the credit point. However, departments are allowed to conduct qualifying test for selecting candidates for Honours in their subjects. In such case there will be no cut off mark for applying Honours in those subjects.