 There are seven Shaheen colleges and a Shaheen English medium school that are operated by the Bangladesh Air Force situated near airbases in Bangladesh;

The college was established on 1 March 1960 as Shaheen School (English Medium).Bangla Medium was introduced from 1967, in parallel with English Medium.Shaheen High School was renamed B A F Shaheen College, Dhaka for opening Intermediate Level from 1977.