Christ College, Irinjalakuda

About Christ College, Irinjalakuda

Christ College was started in 1956, by the Devamatha Province of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), an indigenous religious congregation founded in 1831 by Bl. Cyriac Elias Chavara, a saintly priest and versatile genius, who envisioned education as a tool for liberation and development.

Founded as per provisions of the Indian Constitutuion, part III, Article 30(1) and administered by Christ College Educational Society, (Regd. No. 137/75), this college is affiliated to Calicut University and accredited by NAAC (A). Christ College is dedicated to Christ, and has as its motto “Jeevitha Prabha”, which means the ‘Light of Life’.

Christ College is part of a century-old tradition of CMI education that is at its heart, Christian and specifically catholic. It offers an ideal vision of education that is aware of and responsive to the challenges of the nation’s present situation.

OUR VISION

Service of the humanity by developing the potential of individuals and enlightening them through higher education.

OUR MISSION

To impart quality education rooted in Indian tradition; and adapting values from everywhere.
To make them eminently national; but preeminently international with a cosmopolitan outlook.
To train the youth of today to become responsible citizens of tomorrow to make a prosperous nation.
To make them catalysts in transforming the society as a whole by upholding human dignity, truth, justice, righteousness, harmony and nobility.
The management believes that the secret of success of our College is a community of teachers who are committed to their vocation, professionally competent, morally upright, just and humane in dealings, and who grow in the true vision of education.