College of Co-Operation Banking and Management, Vellanikkara: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Vellanikkara’s College of Co-operation Banking and Management, was founded in 1981, is also a constituent college placed in Thrissur, Kerala. This specialized institution has four special programs organized in the areas of cooperation, banking and management. The physical facility area of this college is 5000 square meters and it covers 0.5 acres of campus area and it maintains the total enrolment of 223 and offers 7 faculty members. Pursuit of quality education is showcased in variety of programmes offered, undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral, in specialised fields like Agribusiness Management and Rural Marketing Management.

To support and complement its population’s learning needs, the college offers multiple amenities. It has a collection of 18,000 titles in cooperation, banking, management, economics and social sciences besides having subscription to leading Indian as well as International journals. Some of the Facilities and Services provided by the centre include photocopying, scanning and computer systems with internet connection. The IT infrastructure is also sound, which is equipped with forty PCs having Internet facilities and having legal based software’s like MS Windows XP, MS office, India stat, SPSS and tally. To facilitate a practical experience, the college has provided Agricultural Lab and a Language Lab for the students where they are exposed to real life experiences of the fields of agriculture and language respectively. The college also has an auditorium that they use to host up to 500 students, for different academic and cultural activities.

The College of Co-operation Banking and Management has total four courses all the courses are full time. These are one undergraduate course as B.Sc Cooperation and Banking Hons, two post graduate courses including MBA, Agribusiness Management and M.Sc Cooperation and Banking and Ph.D Rural Marketing Management. The MBA Agribusiness Management has an approved intake capacity of 40 student, the intake capacity for the other courses is not mentioned here. These specific courses include those that provide students with practical knowledge of cooperative sector, banking and management of agri-business industry.

The admission requirement of the College of Co-operation Banking and Management differs across programmes. MBA Agribusiness Management students are admitted based on merit score in the KMAT, CMAT, or CAT exams for the course. Finally the Rank list is created by assigning weight of 80: 10: 10 to the entrance examination Marks, the Group Discussion and the Personal Interview respectively. The admission to the B.Sc programme is as per the score obtained in the test conducted by the college. 

For M.Sc Cooperation and Banking, a syndicate conducted examination is a must sit and pass for the candidates. Apart from the OGPA, candidates for admission to the doctorate programs are asked to submit their publications as well as go through an interview process. This college enrolls students on the basis of scores in national level management entrance tests such as CAT CMAT and KMAT Kerala, so it offers different ways in which students can get enrolled in this college.