University College Thiruvananthapuram

University College in Thiruvananthapuram is one of Kerala's oldest and most storied institutions of higher learning, with origins in the nineteenth-century Maharaja's college of Travancore, and it occupies a central position in the capital at Palayam, next to the city's main library and cultural institutions. It is a government college affiliated to the University of Kerala, holding a NIRF rank of 48 and an A grade from NAAC. Its strengths are traditional: strong arts and science departments — English, economics and physics among them — a politically active student culture, and an alumni roll that includes many of Kerala's public figures. Fees are nominal, and admission through Kerala's merit-based process is competitive for its reputation. It suits academically inclined students who want an affordable, historic public college at the centre of the capital's intellectual life.