Kannur University was founded in 1996 in Kerala, India at Kasargod and Wayanad districts in the aim of making development to facilitate higher education.
The main campus is situated in the Kannur district at Mangattuparamba.
This Information Technology Centre offers courses in post graduation for computer science and they have sophisticated features for computing laboratories.
Departments
The departments that are in this university include Studies in English School of Social Sciences, English & Foreign Languages, Anthropology School of Life Sciences, Microbiology & Biotechnology School for Management studies, School of Information & science, physical education school of chemical sciences, Physics School of Visual & Fine Arts, music school, applied physics, chemistry school and geography school of health sciences.
Kannur University emerged in 1996 by a Kerala legislature Act. This university is a residential, teaching and affiliating university, and has its main campus in Kannur district located at Mangattuparamba.
This is also a member of the Indian universities association and has its jurisdiction in Kannur, Kasargod and Wayanad districts. Campuses of this university are sited at Payyannur, Thalassery, Mananthavady and Mangattuparamba.
Facilities
The facilities of this university primarily include central library that is available to access for 12 hours everyday. It has an assortment of journals, reference books and periodicals on varied fields. The library of this university is also well recognized to be a research centre for doing PhD in various subjects. They also have another library at Thalassery campus, besides the central library.
Educational Streams
This university offers a series of courses form different campuses and these courses include professional and conventional. The correspondence courses are offered from the distance education department.
The postgraduate courses have sophisticated computing laboratories to perform courses in computer science. Job oriented courses such as library and information and management assist in getting placement. There are research and laboratory facilities available for Physics, Microbiology, Chemistry and Biotechnology.
Faculties
Faculties are many, but to name a few are behavioral sciences, wood technology, anthropology, social sciences, and many more. |