Before the
independence of Bangladesh, the then
East Pakistani government established four cadet colleges in the former
East Pakistan that followed the British public schools' model. After independence, due to the success of those schools, the
Bangladesh Defense Forces kept those colleges (which are high schools by American definition) and established eight more cadet colleges, three for girls and five for boys. Previously, it was Barisal Residential Model College (বরিশাল আদর্শ মহাবিদ্যালয়). In 1981, the Bangladesh government converted it into a cadet college. Its first principal was
Md. Mufazzal Husain who was also the project director during the initial phase of development. As a cadet college, it has numerous placements of its alumni in the national armed forces. ==Notable alumni and faculty==