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| caption = Administration Block of St Thomas' College
| motto = ''Veritas Vos Liberabit''
| mottoeng = ''[[The truth will set you free]]''
| established = 1889
| founder = [[Mar Adolph Medlycott]]
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| principal = Dr Joy K.L.
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| students = 2940
| undergrad = 2400
| postgrad = 400
| doctoral = 140
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| state = [[Kerala]]
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| affiliations = [[University of Calicut]]
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'''St Thomas' College (Autonomous), Thrissur''' is a Government Aided college located in [[Thrissur]] City, the ''Cultural Capital of [[Kerala]]'', [[India]]. Founded by [[Mar Adolph Medlycott]] in 1889, this college played a very important role in the development of the State. It is the oldest college in the [[Kingdom of Cochin|erstwhile princely state of Cochin]] and present day [[Thrissur district]]. It is the second private college to be recognised as a first grade college under [[University of Madras]], in then existed princely states of [[Travancore]], [[Kingdom of Cochin|Cochin]] and [[Malabar District|Malabar]] which later became mostly the present geographical area of [[Kerala]]. It is the first [[Catholic]] college in Kerala and is conducted by the [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur]]. [[Mar Andrews Thazhath]] is the Patron and Mar [[Tony Neelankavil]] is the Manager of the College now. The college is affiliated to [[University of Calicut]]. The College attained ''Autonomous'' status in 2014 and was recognised as College with Potential for Excellence by [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] in 2016. The College was awarded A Grade in its third cycle of reaccreditation by [[National Assessment and Accreditation Council|National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)]] after the peer team review in 2016.

==History==
[[File:St thomas college thrissur.jpg|thumbnail|left|St. Thomas College, Thrissur]]
Started as a lower secondary school in 1889, the founder, the first Vicar Apostolic of Thrissur, [[Adolph Medlycott|Adolphus Edwin Medlycott]], named it St. Thomas’ College. The college started to function in the compound of present day [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Thrissur|Bishop's House]] compound. In 1919, it was raised to a second grade college in arts, affiliated to the University of Madras.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/19/stories/2008061950580200.htm
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|url-status=dead
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|title=Landmark in Kerala history
|access-date=2010-02-23
|location=Chennai, India
|work=[[The Hindu]]
|date=19 June 2008}}</ref>
The college was elevated as a first grade college under University of Madras in April 1925 and it is the second non-government college in Kerala to achieve that status, [[Union Christian College, Aluva]] being the first. 

The buildings of the College were constructed in a phased manner. The first building of the college is the one which is having the tower. Menacherry Hall was built in the year 1941. The Science Block (present day Academic Block on the opposite side of the road) was built in 1956.

In 2004, St. Thomas' was accredited with a B++ grade by [[National Assessment and Accreditation Council|NAAC]], an autonomous organization instituted by the UGC. In September 2010, The college was re-accredited with A grade by NAAC. The College attained A Grade in its NAAC reaccreditation in 2016.

The year 2018-2019 was celebrated as ''Sathyaprayan 1919-2019'', the centennial as second grade college and the commemoration was inaugurated by Honourable [[President of India]], Shri [[Ram Nath Kovind]] on 7th August 2018.

==Academic Programmes==
The college offers graduate, postgraduate and Ph.D.-level programmes in a wide range of subjects. There are nineteen teaching departments<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> (including the nine research departments<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> and the twelve postgraduate departments<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref>) that encompassed 140 teachers.

===Departments===

*General
**Department of Media Studies
**Department of Physical Education
**Department of Social Work

*Humanities
**Department of History
**Department of Political Science

*Languages
**Department of English
**Department of Hindi
**Department of Malayalam
**Department of Sanskrit

*Mathematical Sciences
**Department of Mathematics
**Department of Statistics

*Natural Sciences
**Department of Botany
**Department of Zoology

*Physical Sciences
**Department of Physics
**Department of Chemistry
**Department of Electronics

*Social Sciences
**Department of Commerce
**Department of Economics

*Other
**Department of Computer Science
**Department of Physical Education
**Department of Library and Information Studies

====Department of Physics====
The Department of Physics was started in 1922 within three years of the establishment of the college itself. In 1951 a B.A Degree in Physics was started (later changed to BSc) was started with the affiliation of the Madras University. In 1961 MSc Physics (of Kerala University) was started which was a rare course in those days (one among four colleges in Kerala then). This Department offers bachelor's degrees and master's degrees in Physics.

====Department of Zoology====
The department of Zoology, established in 1957, was affiliated to the University of Kerala. Post Graduate course was introduced in 1969 with entomology as the special paper. The department was approved as a recognized research center under university of Calicut in 1974 and is enriched with a full-fledged Research laboratory supported by Department of Science and Technology.

====Department of Statistics====
In the year 1955, the Degree Course in B.A. Statistics was started under the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics affiliated to the University of Madras. The B.A. Course was converted to three year B.Sc. course in Statistics in 1958 under the University of Kerala. The Department of Statistics was established in the year 1984. This department offers bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees and Doctoral Studies ([[PhD]]).

===Doctoral Studies (PhD)===

*Department of Botany
*Department of Chemistry
*Department of Commerce
*Department of Economics
*Department of English
*Department of Mathematics
*Department of Physics
*Department of Statistics
*Department of Zoology

==Department of Library and Information Studies==

The Department of Library and Information Studies has two constituents: (1) the library which supplements the academic, intellectual, informational, inspirational, spiritual and recreational requirements of the academia with its rich resources and services, and (2) the department of information studies which offers various academic programmes.

===Department of Library===

The Department of [[library]] is one of the largest and oldest [[Academic library|college libraries]] in Kerala. It is divided into four sections: General, Science, English and a separate section for the self-financing courses in Jubilee Block. The General section holds general, multidisciplinary, language and [[Malayalam literature|literature]] books in [[Malayalam]], [[Sanskrit]] and [[Hindi]] along with the books in [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]]. This section also has a rich collection of [[Reference work|reference books]]. The Science section contains volumes in [[Natural science|natural]], [[Outline of physical science|physical]] and [[mathematical sciences]]. The English section possesses resources in [[English language]] and [[English literature|literature]]. The Self Financing Section of the library has books in the disciplines of [[Social Work]], [[Electronics]], [[Computer Applications]], [[Business studies|Business]] and [[Media Studies]].

The Library houses about a hundred thousand [[Book|books]] and subscribes to more than one hundred [[Periodical literature|periodicals]] including [[Academic journal|journals]], magazines and dailies.

The valuable collections include forty sets of [[Encyclopedia|Encyclopӕdiae]], twenty sets of [[Dictionary|Dictionaries]] and Directories of various categories. Some of the collections are very rare, viz. 4 editions of [[Encyclopædia Britannica]], 2 editions of [[World Book Encyclopedia]], [[Collier's Encyclopedia]] (24 volumes), [[Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia]] (29 volumes), [[Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia]] (15 volumes), [[The Book of Knowledge|The Book of Knowledge: The Children's Encyclopædia]], International Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environment (30 volumes), Encyclopedia of Visual Art (10 volumes) and Encyclopedia of Animal World (21 volumes). In the collection of Dictionaries there are 20 sets of various types, among them [[A New English Dictionary]] (9 volumes), published in 1888, is the rarest and the most valuable. Moreover, A Dictionary of English Language abridged by Robert Gordon Latham from that of Samuel Johnson in 1882, Malayalam-English Dictionary by [[Hermann Gundert]] and Malayalam-Portuguese Dictionary by [[Arnos Padre]] are available in the Library. Many of the old ecclesiastical books which were in the beginnings of the college were taken to the collection of [[Thrissur Diocese|Bishop's house]] to make room for academic books.

The College Library provides open access to its documents and any member can browse through the collections which are arranged according to [[Dewey Decimal Classification]] (DDC). The Library provides an [http://117.240.29.3:8000/ online catalogue] to trace these books. The members can also access scholarly literature which is available online through [http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/ National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)] of [[INFLIBNET Centre|UGC-INFLIBNET]]. Through N-LIST, members can access to 6000+ e-journals and 31,35,000+ ebooks. Different sections of the College Library houses 40 terminals of computers for the use of students and faculty. The Library provides reference, scholarly literature search services and similarity check for [[plagiarism]].

===Department of Information Studies===

The academic Department of Information Studies offers the Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Information Studies. The programme is delivered entirely online using virtual learning platform and consists of three modules: information literacy, academic writing and communication, and intellectual property and its management. The programme is first of its kind in [[India]].
Training on [[Reference management software|electronic reference management]] and awareness about web research profiles, [[Citation impact|citation metrics]], [[intellectual property rights]], ethical methods of research and publishing, [[Predatory open access publishing|pseudo-journals]] and plagiarism are also imparted by the Department. 
In the first quarter of 2020, the department started to offer the [https://www.ugc.ac.in/ugc_notices.aspx?id=MjcwMg== UGC approved two credit course ''Research and Publication Ethics''] online through [https://117.221.21.114/course/index.php?categoryid=6 St Thomas E-learning Platform (STEP)], the [[Moodle]] instance of the college.

==Notable alumni==
*[[ Victor Manjila]]- Former Indian Football Player
*[[Devan (actor)|Devan]]- Malayalam Film Actor.
* [[Alphons Joseph]] - Malayalam Film Music Director
*[[Johnson (composer)|Johnson]]- Malayalam Music Director
*[[T.G Ravi]]- Malayalam Film Actor
* [[Hariharan (director)]]
* [[Biju Menon]], Actor
* [[Narain (actor)]], Actor
* [[C. Achutha Menon]] - Political leader
* [[Chinmayananda Saraswati]] - Chinmaya Mission
* [[Eknath Easwaran]] - Internationally respected spiritual teacher<ref name=easwaran1996>"The headmaster of my college was Father [[John Palocaren|John Palakaran]], a Catholic priest from a distinguished Kerala Christian family who had taken his degrees at Edinburgh University", quotation from page 6 of {{cite book
|title=Seeing with the eyes of love: Eknath Easwaran on the imitation of Christ |last=Easwaran |first=Eknath |author-link=Eknath Easwaran |year=1996 |publisher=Nilgiri Press |location=Tomales, CA, USA |isbn=0-915132-87-7 |url= https://archive.org/details/seeingwitheyesof0000easw |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/seeingwitheyesof0000easw/page/8 8] |access-date=19 December 2010}}</ref>
* [[EMS Namboodiripad]] - Indian [[Communist]] Leader and first [[Chief Minister of Kerala]] state
* [[E. Santhosh Kumar]], Winner of The [[Kerala Sahithya Academy]] Award for the best novel in 2012.
* [[George Alapatt]] - Fourth Bishop of Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur
* [[George Menachery]] – Historian
* [[Joseph Mundassery]] - Noted Literary critique and Education Minister of [[Kerala]]
* [[Kochouseph Chittilappilly]] - MD of [[V-Guard Industries Ltd]]
* [[Mar Aprem Mooken]] - Metropolitan of the Church of the East in India
* [[Mathai Manjooran]] - Indian Independence Activist
* [[Ouseppachan]] - Malayalam Film Music Director
* [[Panampilly Govinda Menon]] - Union Cabinet minister for Law and Railways.
* [[P. T. Kunju Muhammed]]- Malayalam Film Director and Producer
* [[T. Pradeep]] - Professor of Chemistry, Chennai
* [[Ranjith Sankar]], Director
* [[V. M. Sudheeran]]- Political leader
* [[Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis]] - [[Padma Shri]] awardee, Professor at [[Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research]]
* [[Paulose II (Indian Orthodox Church)]] - Supreme primate of the [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]]
* [[M._S._Sankaran|M S Sankaran]] - [[Endocrinology|Endocrinologist]] - Retd Prof [[Hindu_College,_Delhi|Hindu College]]
* [[ Arun G Raghavan]]-[[Miniscreen Actor]]
* [[Anil Akkara]], Member Of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]

==Notable Faculty==
* [[Joseph Mundassery]]
* [[George Menachery]]
* [[C. Raveendranath]]
* [[K. A. Jayaseelan]]

==See also==
*[[Sree Kerala Varma college]]
*[[Vimala College]]
*[[University of Calicut]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://stthomas.ac.in/ Official Website of St. Thomas' College Thrissur]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090420154153/http://www.stctcr.com/ Official website of Department of Computer Science, St. Thomas' College, Thrissur]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101116162955/http://www.thrissurkerala.com/colleges/Sceince.html Thrissur Colleges]
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