Academics
The college offers over 30 regular courses in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Arts, Sciences, and Commerce, besides undergraduate programmes in vocational streams of Archaeology, Musicology and Industrial Fish and Fisheries; and post graduate programmes in Social Work (MSW) and Computer Applications (MCA). A number of departments at the college offer M. Phil and Ph.D. programmes.
Besides the regular programmes, MCC offers undergraduate programmes and post graduate programmes in the self-financed stream, including courses in Journalism, Geography, Tourism, Travel Management, Microbiology, Physical Education, Visual Communication, Marine studies and Coastal Resource Management, Computer Oriented Business Applications and Social Work (BSW), besides regular course in Arts, Commerce and Sciences.
MCC has 38 departments including day and evening streams, with over 6,500 students. Half the student body are women and several faculty members are women teachers. The institution has about 220 faculty members, over half of whom are doctorate-holders.
The Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology assists students in practical applications through their Phycolab and Center for Floristics Research, in addition to the regular courses. Several new species and new varieties in flowering plants, fossils and algae have been described by the staff of the department. A fossil specimen Araucarioxylon giftii named after Prof. Dr. Gift Sironmoney, a versatile genius, by Dr. D.E.P. Jeyasingh. A species of grass, Eragrostis Dayanandanii, was discovered and named after P. Dayanandan for his valuable contributions to botany, especially in the field of grasses. Two newly discovered plants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Aidia livingstonii Karthig et al. and Liparis livingstonii Jayanthi et al. are named in honour of C. Livingstone for his contributions to plant taxonomy. A species of whitefly namely Aleurocanthus livingstonii is also named after Livingstone. Two new species Anoectochilus Narasimhanii (orchid) and Orophea Narasimhanii (custard apple) have been discovered by researchers of the department pursuing angiosperm taxonomy.
The Department of Biotechnology has funded a multi-institution project for species recovery. Associate professor Dr. D. Narasimhan is the principal investigator for the DBT Species Recovery Project.
The Department of Political Science has notable professors like M. Abel and W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar.
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