Swami Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, a government degree college, is located in the midst of natural beauty on the Agartala-Shimna Road in the Mohanpur Sub-division under the West Tripura district. It is only general degree college in the entire Mohanpur sub division with a population of approximately 1.5 lakhs. The college is just 17 K. Ms. away from the Radhanagar Bus Stand of the capital city, Agartala. The total area of the college campus is 24.4 acres of land.  At present, there are 1082 students in the college.

As a part of celebration of 150 years Birth Anniversary of great Indian Philosopher, Swami Vivekananda, the Government of Tripura named the college after Swami Vivekananda.The college has three stories administrative block and another three stories academic block with a capacity to accommodate approximately 600 students.

The college is permanently affiliated to Tripura University (A Central University) and has got recognition from UGC under 12b & 2f {vide letter No.(8-174/2018(CPP-I/C) dated: 10/04/2018 }. It began its academic works with introduction of five general subjects-English, Bengali, Political Science, History and Education. As the college is only the higher educational institution offering general degrees in the entire Mohanpur sub-division, the government of Tripura had vision for gradual expansion of college with introduction of new more subjects of Arts, Science and Commerce Streams with honours. Honours courses were introduced in the subjects like History and Education during the academic year 2013-14. Science stream was introduced during the academic year 2014-2015, honours courses were also introduced in Political Science and Bengali during the academic year 2016, Honours courses in the science stream were introduced in the year 2017.