The Army Education Corps (AEC) Training College was initially raised at Belgaum in 1921. It was shifted to its present location at Pachmarhi in 1939.  Situate at an altitude of 3400 ft, Pachmarhi is an enchanting hill resort interspersed with streams, lakes, waterfalls and scores of flora - fauna. The college is recognized by Barkatullah University, Bhopal and has been granted the status of autonomous college since 1985. The institution imparts training in selected foreign languages to nominated all ranks of the army. It has all the modern facilities and keeps itself abreast with the state of the art technologies and methodologies in conducting such training.

Role

• To function as Autonomous college conducting graduate and post-graduate courses and examinations of Barkatullah University, Bhopal.
• To devise need based educational training packages for the soldiers of the Indian Army and Para-military Forces.
• To create a corpus of able bodied educational and map craft instructors.
• To be the nodal agency for foreign language training in the Army.
• To create a corpus of instructors and experts in the field of foreign languages, computer applications and military music.
• To function as a nodal centre for Personality Development and Communication Skill enhancement programmers for personnel of the Armed Forces.
• To create a trainer training facility for optimizing the training import of the trainers of Indian Army.
• To be the nodal centre for English language training for personnel of Armed Forces from friendly foreign countries.