One of the first 16 Universities in India,the University of Kerala was founded as the University of Travancore in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in 1937.During the 7 decades since the University of Kerala grew and shrunk physically and transformed itself in many ways.It is difficult to summarise what the Kerala University is in a brief space.The earliest origins of the University may be traced back to two institutions of modern learning in Kerala, the University College,Thiruvananthapuram and the Trivandrum Observatory.The University College was initially founded as the Maharajas Free School by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal in 1834,with Mr John Roberts.A Christian Missonary as Headmaster,and soon grew into a college in 1866,affiliated to the Madras University.When the University of Travancore was founded,the Departments of the college became the University Departments,only to switch back again when the transformation to University of Kerala happened in 1957.
PhD Courses Offered By University of Kerala
• Commerce
• Management Studies
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Architecture
• English
• Medicine
• Biochemistry
• History
• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Engineering and Technology
• Electrical And Electronics Engineering
• Electronics And Communications Engineering
• Zoology
• Arabic
• HindiLibrary & Information Science
• Philosophy
• Russian
• Tamil
• Psychology
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science And Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Sociology
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• Image Processing
• Data Mining
• Expert Systems
• Fuzzy Logic
• Genetic Algorithms
• Intelligent Agents
• Knowledge Management
• Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Neural Networks
• Soft Computing