Newman College, Thodupuzha

Established in 1964, Newman College, Thodupuzha is a first grade college affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. It is a minority Christian institution governed and managed by the Corporate Educational Agency, Syrian Catholic Diocese of Kothamangalam. Named after the great educational visionary, John Henry Cardinal Newman, the college is instituted to cater to the educational needs of not just the Catholics, but of all communities without discrimination of caste, creed, religion or other considerations. The college seeks to serve certain important social ideals. These include the inculcation of spiritual and moral values in students and imparting training in socially productive services intended to mould socially responsible citizens. The college is located at the doorstep of Idukki District in the Western Ghats. The total land area  possessed by the college comes to 26 acres. It is an aided institution which also runs a few courses of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) through distance education mode. The college is recognised by UGC under sections 2(f) and 12 (b). The college was reaccredited by NAAC with ‘A’ grade in two consecutive terms 2007 and in 2016 with CGPA3.32. The college now offers fourteen undergraduate programmes, eight postgraduate programmes and two research programmes. The college also runs two diploma courses under the UGC sponsored Newman Community College and another diploma course by the Department of Continuing Education, Govt. of Kerala.