Government Degree College Magam is one of the young but rapidly developing colleges of Jammu and Kashmir. It was established in the year 2011. and started functioning in 2012. Since its establishment, the college was functioning in a makeshift arrangement in the premises of Higher Secondary School Magam with few classrooms offering only some B.A. courses. Thereafter, the own college campus (spreading over 74.18 kanals of land) was inaugurated by the then Chief Minister of the J&K sate  on 8th August 2017 and various additional programmes like B.B.A, B.Com, B.Sc., and some other B.A. courses such as History, Psychology, Geography, Kashmiri, Arabic, Music and Media Script Writing, besides some professional courses
like Hotel Management and Computer Application were sanctioned to the college. The college is permanently affiliated to University of Kashmir, which designs the curricula and conducts examination and the institution is making full efforts for the smooth functioning of the both. Presently the college is offering as many as 21 courses including some professional ones to cater the needs of students from different background. Besides curriculum, the college is very much focusing on the development
of students’ overall personality by exposing them to different events and programmes such debates, conferences, seminars, essay competition and other cultural programmes. Not only this, our college students have been time and again participating in various sports related activities within and outside the state and brought home many positions and accolades. The college has separate Academic, Administrative and Library Blocks. The Academic Block has six large fully furnished lecture theatres, a staff room, Girls Common Room, NSS Office, Sports office, and a Computer Lab consisting of 32 internet connected computers. The college has a very rich and fully automated library with more than 6 thousand books and journals. The library has a Reading Hall and Browsing Centre. The college has also a hygienic canteen which offers many food items on affordable prices. The whole campus has Wi-Fi internet connection. The college also offers Bus facility to the far-off students.