The college offers graduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. level programmes in a wide range of subjects. There are twenty-four teaching departments (including ten research departments and the thirteen postgraduate departments) which encompass 140 teachers.
Departments • Humanities • Department of History • Department of Political Science • Languages • Department of English • Department of Hindi • Department of Malayalam • Department of Sanskrit • Mathematical Sciences • Department of Mathematics • Department of Statistics • Computer Science and Application • Department of Computer Science • Department of Computer Application • Department of Data Science • Life Sciences • Department of Botany • Department of Zoology • Physical Sciences • Department of Physics • Department of Chemistry • Department of Electronics • Social Sciences • Department of Commerce • Department of Criminology and Police Science • Department of Economics • Department of Forensic Science • Department of Management Studies • Department of Media Studies • Department of Psychology • Department of Social Work • Other •
Department of Library and Information Studies • Department of Physical Education
Department of Physics The Department of Physics was started in 1922 within three years of the establishment of the college itself. In 1951 a B.A Degree in Physics was started (later changed to BSc) was started with the affiliation of the Madras University. In 1961 MSc Physics (of Kerala University) was started which was a rare course in those days (one among four colleges in Kerala then). This Department offers bachelor's degrees and master's degrees in physics.
Department of Zoology The department of Zoology, established in 1957, was affiliated to the University of Kerala. Post Graduate course was introduced in 1969 with entomology as the special paper. The department was approved as a recognized research center under university of Calicut in 1974 and is enriched with a full-fledged Research laboratory supported by Department of Science and Technology.
Department of Statistics In the year 1955, the degree course in B.A. statistics was started under the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics affiliated to the University of Madras. The B.A. course was converted to three-year B.Sc. course in statistics in 1958 under the University of Kerala. The Department of Statistics was established in the year 1984. This department offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctoral studies (
PhD).
Department of Library and Information Studies The Department of Library and Information Studies has two constituents: (1) the library which supplements the academic, intellectual, informational, inspirational, spiritual and recreational requirements of the academia with its rich resources and services, and (2) the department of information studies which offers various academic programmes. The Department of Library is one of the largest and oldest
college libraries in Kerala. Santhome Athenaeum, the Centennial Library of the college, houses about a hundred thousand
books and subscribes to more than one hundred
periodicals including
journals, magazines and dailies. The library collection includes general, multidisciplinary, language and
literature books in
Malayalam,
Sanskrit,
Hindi and
English language and
literature along with the books in
humanities,
social sciences and
natural,
physical and
mathematical sciences. The valuable collections include forty sets of
encyclopӕdiae, twenty sets of
dictionaries and directories of various categories. Some of the collections are very rare, viz. 4 editions of
Encyclopædia Britannica, 2 editions of
World Book Encyclopedia,
Collier's Encyclopedia (24 volumes),
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (29 volumes),
Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia (15 volumes),
The Book of Knowledge: The Children's Encyclopædia, International Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environment (30 volumes), Encyclopedia of Visual Art (10 volumes) and Encyclopedia of Animal World (21 volumes). In the collection of dictionaries, there are 20 sets of various types, among them
A New English Dictionary (9 volumes), published in 1888, is the rarest and the most valuable. Moreover, A Dictionary of English Language abridged by
Robert Gordon Latham from that of
Samuel Johnson in 1882, Malayalam-English Dictionary by
Hermann Gundert and Malayalam-Portuguese Dictionary by
Arnos Padre are available in the library. Many of the old ecclesiastical books which were in the beginnings of the college were taken to the collection of
Bishop's house to make room for academic books. The College Library provides open access to its documents and any member can browse through the collections which are arranged according to
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). The library provides an online catalogue to trace these books. The College Library houses 30 terminals of computers for the use of students and faculty. The library provides reference, scholarly literature search services and similarity check for
plagiarism. The seating capacity of the library is 408 which include
carrels,
research cubicles and learning stairs. The academic Department of Information Studies offers the Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Information Studies. The programme is delivered entirely online using virtual learning platform and consists of three modules: information literacy, academic writing and communication, and intellectual property and its management. The programme is first of its kind in
India. Training on
electronic reference management and awareness about web research profiles,
citation metrics,
intellectual property rights, ethical methods of research and publishing,
pseudo-journals and plagiarism are also imparted by the department. In the first quarter of 2020, the department started to offer the UGC approved two credit course
Research and Publication Ethics online through St Thomas E-learning Platform (STEP), the
Moodle instance of the college. Later it was offered online in the month of August in 2020 and in the following years and was attended by about 900 participants from different parts of India.
Doctoral Studies (PhD) The college is offering research programmes under the following ten departments: • Department of Botany • Department of Chemistry • Department of Commerce • Department of Computer Science • Department of Economics • Department of English • Department of Mathematics • Department of Physics • Department of Statistics • Department of Zoology ==Notable alumni==