Managed by Charutar Vidya Mandal and established in 1947, V.P. & R.P.T.P. Science College is one of the oldest Science colleges in Gujarat. It is affiliated to Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar. It was first an Arts and Science College, after 1959 it has been fully devoted to Science. It has won the award of The Best Science College of Gujarat on THREE Successive occasions. Eminent personalities like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Nobel Laureate Dr. C.V. Raman, Shri Prithviraj Kapoor had visited the college on various occasions.

Today there are 12 departments in the college with a staff strength of 62 with almost half of them having a Ph.D. Degree.