According to historian Muntasir Mamun, Pogose Laboratory School and College, IER, Jagannath University started in 1848. It was also found that the school may have started a few years earlier as 99 students were suspended due to their inability to pay extended fees. After that the principal at the time, Dr. A.T. Wise, opened a school named Union School. It was created mainly for poor and underprivileged students, with Pogose taking it over two years later at his own expense. He gave it the name Pogose School.