St. Albert's College is an autonomous liberal arts college located at Kochi, India. It has eighteen degree courses, twelve postgraduate courses and five research centres. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council has accredited the College at the "A" level with an aggregate score of 3.24.
History
The college was founded by late Dr. Joseph Attippetty, the first Indian Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Verapoly. St. Albert's College has been granted autonomous status in 2016 by the UGC. Archbishop Attippetty started a new college at Ernakulam, then the capital of the former State of Cochin. In 1946 the University of Madras authorized setting up a second grade college, which began functioning on 16 July 1946, in the old St. Albert's High School building, situated in front of the present college campus. Now the college is under the patronage of Dr. Joseph Kalathiparambil, Metropolitan Archbishop of Verapoly, affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University.
Undergraduate Courses (20)
B.Sc. in Physics - 3 years - Aided
B.Sc. in Chemistry - 3 years - Aided
B.Sc. in Vocational Chemistry - 6 semesters - Aided
B.Sc. in Mathematics - 3 years - Aided
B.Sc. in Botany - 3 years - Aided
B.Sc. in Zoology - 3 years - Aided
B.Sc. in Aqua culture - 6 semesters - Aided
B.Sc. in Industrial Fish & Fisheries - 6 semesters - Self Finance
Mathematics: areas of research are fuzzy subgroups, fuzzy sets and systems, fuzzy groups and group homomorphisms, and group theory. The department proudly publishes an international refereed half-yearly Research Journal "The Albertian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics".
Commerce: the first Ph.D. from Commerce faculty of the affiliating University graduated from this center. The faculty undertakes research projects funded by agencies like ICSSR, UGC etc. The department mainly focuses on problems related particularly to the state of Kerala and Southern States of India.
Chemistry: Main areas of research in Chemistry Department are Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Environmental Studies and issues relevant to the city of Kochi, the industrial capital of Kerala. Members of faculty have attracted project funds from various agencies, augmenting infrastructure for research. The faculty has several publications in reputed national and international research journals.
Botany: The Department was recently recognized as a research department. Research projects are carried out in the department. Facilities and expertise is available to carry out research in the field of Physiology, Environmental Biology and Plant tissue culture. The faculties has publication is many national and international journals.
Zoology: The department has facilities for research leading to Ph.D. in areas of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Pollution studies. Presently the department has four research guides who are also involved in projects funded by UGC. The departments also intends to take up collaborative research projects.
Aquaculture: The department is recognised as research Department in 2016. Department have the supporting facilities to pursue research in a wide area like aquaculture, nutrition, ecology, hydro-biology, fresh water fish conservation, socio-economics of fishing communities, resource mapping, EIA etc. The Department has running projects with many international agencies like CEPF, PADI, New England Aquarium etc. Department also promotes collaborative research programmes with foreign Universities.
