The honours course of Physics in Dhaka college was introduced in 1857, the year when Calcutta university was established , under its affiliation, at the beginning when Honours courses were opened for only few subjects. So it is the most oldest honourse course in Bangladesh. In 1921 Honours and Masters courses of Physics went under the affiliation of Dhaka University when the university was established and the courses continued till the independent war of Bangladesh in 1971. After the independence, the department of Physics started its journey from 1974 under the affiliation of Dhaka university till 1992, the year when the national university of Bangladesh was formed. The honourse and Masters course went under the affiliation of NU from then. From the year 2017 the graduation and the post graduation courses of physics were again affiliated under Dhaka university till the current date. At present every year 120 students are admitted in the honourse level and 120 students are admitted in the masters level. Many talented teachers and students enrolled so far the famous department of Physics. The department is proud of its glorious past and determined to do better onward.