St Xavier's College, Thumba

St. Xavier’s College, Thumba is an affiliated college established in 1964 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Located on a vast area of 110 acre this university came into existence nearly 57 year ago and has been providing quality education to its students ever since. NAAC accredited, St. Xavier’s College currently provides fifteen courses in six degree programmes for a total enrolment of 1221 students. The college currently accepts more female students than males, and the current distribution is; 55% for undergraduate programmes and 78% for postgraduate programmes. Currently, there are 51 professors at the college hence the student-teacher ration offers individual attention as well as quality education. St. Xavier’s College is modern facilities that foster effective support for the colleges’ academic activities. The library is blessed with over 28,524 books, 54 journals/magazines, 193 educational CDs and named after Arnos Padiri the Malayalam Jesuit Poet. Students get an attached laboratory, a rich IT equipment, and the free Wi-Fi access across the campus. There are provisions for health and fitness, the college provides gym and various other sports related facilities. However, female students have the privileges of having the hostel with a capacity of 60 residents solely for scholars who come from other towns or cities. This college specifically offers the complete suites of under graduate and post graduate courses. These 14 undergraduate courses offer B.Com, B.Sc in Physics , Chemistry and Mathematics and several BA courses in Latin ,History, Economics and Languages. To cater the need of the advanced level studies the college impart two post graduate programmes namely M.Com and M.Sc Physics. All courses are offered on a full-time basis, thus fully responding to the college’s mission to provide students with intense and profound training. The total enrolment of students in all programmes is one thousand, one hundred and eleven The college has made it its tradition of producing sound graduates to handle the challenges of the 21 st century and the dynamics of the word profession. The admission procedure followed at St. Xavier’s College as is the set down university policy of the university of Kerala, is completely fair and transparent . The college retains academic performance and achievement as expected requirement for enrolment with certain courses possibly admitting candidates through other tests or interviews. St. Xavier’s College has Santa-Cruzans’ welfare at heart thus its scholarship programmes to ensure that education is making to all deserving students. In the 2022 academic year, 472 undergraduate and 16 postgraduate students benefitted from the bursary proving the university’s commitment to offering opportunities to students in need based on academics rather than financial capability. Thus, St. Xavier’s College, Thumba stands up to the tradition of imparting quality education empowering its students education, character and nation building. The college aiming towards serving the best in higher education with track record, value added courses and liberal education the college turn as a symbol of hope for students of Kerala to get into. Read more Get admission in top colleges accepting applications Click on Apply to check the best colleges that might interest you. Apply