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Mar Athanasius College (Autonomous), Kothamangalam

The Mar Athanasius College (Autonomous), Kothamangalam is a premier multidisciplinary educational institution in Kerala established in the year 1955. The College has a long tradition of imparting value-based, holistic education focusing on academic competence, social skills and moral values. The UGC conferred autonomy to the college in 2016. The college was awarded with College for Potential for Excellence status in 2009 and was accredited with ‘A+’ grade in 2017 by NAAC. In NIRF college ranking 2022 the institution is placed in 56th position. The college has 13 Undergraduate 2 Vocational Undergraduate, 16 Post graduate, 1 Integrated Postgraduate programme in addition to 4 Doctoral Programmes leading to the award of PhD. The college was honoured with Palathully Award (2007), National Environmental Awareness Award (2008), Bhoomimithra Award (2009), the Green Award (2011) by the Government of Kerala for its eco-friendly activities.

About RUSA Project

The college has got sanction for financial assistance of Rs 5 crores from RUSA under the component 8: Enhancing quality and excellence in selected autonomous colleges in 2019. With this assistance the college was able to progress a lot in the path of excellence. Construction of Boys hostel is progressing in high phase and 80% of work is completed. We were able to conduct seven certificate courses, seven Entrepreneurship Development Programmes, three Short term Courses / Mentoring Initiatives for neighbouring Colleges, training for non – teaching staff, six faculty enrichment programmes, two international conferences etc. with the assistance of RUSA.