Payyanur College, Payyanur is a Post Graduate College affiliated to  Kannur University and offering higher education in Postgraduate and Degree and level courses.    This College is one of the prestigious Arts and Science College under  Kannur University and well known all over Kerala.  The college is retaining its position of a first class educational institution in Malabar by producing the best results with many Rank Holders in various university examinations for the last many years. Payyanur is selected as one among the 7 university centres under Kannur University.

Payyanur College is one of the very few sought after institutions of higher education in North Malabar.  This institution commenced its illustrious career as a Junior College, affiliated to the Kerala University, on July 15, 1965.  In the beginning, the college was allowed to provide instruction to about 960 students of Science and Humanities at the Pre-Degree level. Later in 1968, the affiliation of the College was transferred to the newly founded Calicut University.  Payyanur College was raised to the status of a full-fledged Degree College in the year 1969. The second considerable elevation of the College in academic terms occurred in the year 1984 with the commencement of Post-graduation in Mathematics.  The institution of Post-graduate departments of Chemistry and Physics and the Bachelor departments of Commerce and Functional Hindi in the years that followed has helped Payyanur College to achieve an envious position the academic map of North Malabar. 

From the moment of its inception the College has been functioning as an outstanding, secular centre of academic excellence.  The College offers instruction in 13 undergraduate and 3 postgraduate courses.  Drawing its students from among all the communities of the sprawling Kannur and Kasaragod districts and catering to the secular, democratic, and academic interests of this region, Payyanur College stands out as the mother institution of the intellectual community that spearheads all activities of this region.  With its imposing vastness of around 150 acres of land as campus area, the College is both a significant physical and intellectual presence of this part of Kerala.

The College started functioning from 15^th July 1965.  The Chief Patron, late Vyaghram S. Ramakrishna Iyer, formally inaugurated it.  The College started as a junior college affiliated to the Kerala University providing instruction to the maximum of 960 students in the Pre-Degree Courses.  In 1968 the College was affiliated to the newly formed Calicut University. Degree Courses were started here in 1969 and Post Graduation in Mathematics in 1984. Later when Kannur University started, this college is shifted from  Calicut University. Presently the college is equipping itself with the required academic and infrastructural innovations to get successfully and meritoriously assessed and accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, the quality assurance body in higher education.  

K.G. Mallar

The Payyanur Education Society that owns the College is a secular, non-communal and  non-Partisan registered society.  The Society  is having more than two thousand members and plays a vital role in the educational field of Payyanur.  The first committee of the society was constituted under the president ship of the late Advocate Sri. KS Umamaheswara Iyer.  

The role of late Sri. K.G. Mallar, who served as the President of the Society for many years, in bringing Payyanur College as a prestigious institution of Kerala is remarkable. 

Apart from the College, the Society is running two other schools, the PES Vidyalaya(CBSE) which is situated very next to the college campus at Edat and the Annur UP School, Annur.

Sri. P K Surendranath was the first Principal of the college who continued upto1981. Prof. AK Raghavan Nambiar (1981-1990), Prof. PV Govindan Kutty (1990-1998), Prof. PV Padmanabhan (1998-1999), Prof. K Raveendran and Prof. KV Narayanan were his successors.  The present Principal is Sri. K Narayanan [Dept. of Commerce].  The total number of teaching staff is  above 100.

The College presently offers instruction in three post-graduate and 13 graduate disciplines.

PG Courses:

1.      M.Sc Mathematics

2.      M.Sc Physics

3.      M.Sc Chemistry

Degree Courses

A. Sciences:

1.      Mathematics (Physics & Statistics subsidiaries)

2.      Physics (Math & Chemistry subsidiaries)

3.      Chemistry (Math and Physics subsidiaries)

4.      Zoology (Botany & Chemistry subsidiaries)

5.      Botany (Zoology & Chemistry subsidiaries)

B. Social Sciences:

1.      Political Sciences (History & Economics as subsidiaries)

2.      History (Political Science & Economics as subsidiaries)

3.      Economics (History & Statistics as subsidiaries)

C. Language and Literature:

1.      English (British History & Political Science as subsidiaries)

2.      Malayalam (Cultural History of Kerala & Sanskrit)

3.      Hindi (Cultural History of India & Secretarial Practice)

D. Language and Communication:

1. Functional Hindi

E. Commerce

1. B.Com: Income Tax Law & Practice

Payyanur College is always in the top position in all the Inter-Collegiate and University level competitions in arts as well as sports.  The college used to get the championship in Inter-zone Festivals when it was affiliated to  Calicut University and is retaining that quality in Kannur University also.

A unit of Senior Division N.C.C ( National Cadet Corps) is attached to the College which is functioning under 32 Kerala Battalion NCC, Payyanur.  Three Units of  NSS (National Service Scheme) is functioning in the college each with 100 Volunteers and is undertaking many social service projects in  the nearby villages.

Payyanur College is well ahead of similar institutions in Sports also. College owns a well equipped Sport Pavilion. 

The Football  and Volleyball Teams  of the  College are considered as the major  teams of Kannur  District.  A Sports Hostel (Volleyball) granted and financed by the Kerala State Sports Council is functioning in the college with a full time volleyball coach posted by the Sports Council.  

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