Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, is a unique institution for higher education in several ways. Its rich tradition and enviable achievements in all arenas of human enterprise—production and dissemination of knowledge, inculcation of secular and liberal values, measures to achieve inclusive growth and development, schemes which help the marginalised achieve upward social mobility, inter alia— have transformed it into a motor force for progressive social change. Spread over a 25-acre campus, the college stands right in the heart of the happening city of Kochi, with easy accessibility by road, rail, air, metro rail and waterways. The college campus is refreshingly lush and verdant because of the shady trees and their thick foliage and fresh water ponds that lend a sylvan ambience to the premises. Now the college is a Centre of Excellence with 17 departments offering research leading to the degree of Ph.D. and 18 offering postgraduate programmes. Among the undergraduate courses also there is diversity, ranging from music, commerce and computer application. The college has three hostels for the students, a 15- acre playground with state of the art synthetic track, pavilion, etc. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) identified all the science departments of the college for special assistance under the programme Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (FIST) in 2010. The UGC has capped it all with the title College with Potential for Excellence. The NAAC successively re-accredited the college in 2006 and 2013 with A grade. The College has been doing well in the Mahatma Gandhi University youth festival, bagging the first place or runner-up position consistently. It is the first and the only government autonomous college in Kerala.