St Xavier's College, Vaikom: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

St. Xavier’s College, Vaikom is an affiliated college of the University of Kottayam established in 1981. This prestigious university, situated in an 18 acres land is duly certified by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). As on the date of submitting this data St. Xavier’s is having 599 students strength and 30 faculties, so 8 courses in 4 degree programmes. The college student population is almost equally divided with female students comprising 64% while the male students 36%. It offers under graduate courses and post graduate courses as well, where the high percentage of students are the Under graduate students that is about 95 percent while the Post graduate students are of about 5 percent. Most of the college students are state students since the college admission rate is almost 100 % for students in the state.

Currently, St. Xavier’s College enjoys basic infrastructure that supports improvement of teaching and learning environment for all students. The college library means a good store of books and other materials as well as computerised automation, free access facilities and reprographic facilities. Regarding practical teaching and learning, the college offers departmental laboratories in all departments. A large assembly hall, which accommodates 400 students, for cultural activities or debates and other events is located alongside the campus. It has and affordable canteen where students can purchase meals and the multi gym facility to make them fit. The college also has developed as well as equipped modern computerised IT facilities and internet connection for each lab to enable the students to be in touch with latest technologies.

It provide  8 programmes offered in the institution, there are both undergraduate and postgraduate classes. They mainly offer undergraduate programmes in areas like Commerce, Science and Arts, and post graduate programme offered is in Commerce- BA Political Science , B.Com and M.Com etc. All the courses are full time, regular courses. Concerning the general education courses’ student intake the total enrolled students are 599 but the total student intake for each course is not defined. From these graduates, colleges must have turned a lot of them out to serve their different capacities to society.

St. Xavier’s College has an organised admission process but it does not state the special measures it adopts. The college could use the performance in the qualifying examination in determining admissions to various courses offered in the college. To the best knowledge of the author, no information on specific entrance examinations that the college offers is available online; however, to its respective courses, the college may use scores obtained in state or national entrance tests. St. At Xavier’s College, students are financially aided with 123 undergraduate and 7 postgraduate students having being offered either reimbursements or scholarships in the financial year 2022. Thus, commitment to financing also becomes an important way to help a larger number of students enrol in quality programmes. College faith also boasts of its alumni association whose members work among the prominent continued professional bodies like the banking sector and teaching fraternity, political leadership, and the business world proving a noble point for the future leaders.