The East India Company College, or East India College, was a college in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, England. It was founded in February 1806 as the training establishment for the Honourable East India Company (HEIC). At that time, the HEIC provided general and vocational education for young gentlemen of sixteen to eighteen years old, who were nominated by its directors to writerships (i.e. clerkships) in the overseas civil service. Its counterpart for the training of officers for the East India Company's Presidency armies was Addiscombe Military Seminary.
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