Arya kanya degree college was the first and only degree college for women (upto 2000) in Hardoi. It started as Arya Kanya Pathshala under a neem tree with High school and grew into a degree college in 1970. It is affiliated to Kanpur university (now C.S.J.M). Classes in popular subjects like English literature and geography were started and the college had its first convocation in 1976.

Extra curricular Activities:

N.S.S.

Two units of National Service Scheme started working in 1978 and have proved themselves for their wonderful service to society by raising funds, collecting medicines, cloths and food grains for natural calamities victims by conducting classes for adults in villages, organising various family programmes including immunisation, free distribution of medicines and plantation, Pulse Polio drive.

Rangers :

This course have been started in the year 2011. By the help of this course student serve best for the citizen of India. Rangers help people in many way : 
Can save them from fire, can cook food without fire in the jungle, can prepare themselves in opposite condiftions etc. Rangers work honestly.

Awareness Programmes :

College often organises various awareness programmes for young students. Lectures and slides on Breast Cancer are delivered by a team of doctors from Sanjay Gandhi P.G.I. Lucknow.