Cochin University of Science and Technology was established in the year 1971.It is located at Thrikkakara in Kerala.The objective of the University is enhance higher education in the state and promote advanced research in the field of applied sciences, technology, engineering, industry, commerce and social sciences. The main campus at Thrikkakara has 14 departments and 8 auxiliary institutions. The University set up another campus at Ernakulam, by the side of the sea to provide education related to marine science. School of Marine Sciences, the School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Industrial Fisheries inside Ernakulam of Cochin University.

The University offers 80 programmes and changes its course structures with the changing world. The university has following departments: Department of Engineering, Department of Environmental Studies, Department of Hindi, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of Legal Studies, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Chemical Oceanography, Department of Marine Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry, Department of Physical Oceanography, Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Department of Applied Chemistry Department of Biotechnology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Social Sciences, Economics, Commerce Electronics, . Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Department of Instrumentation, Department of Polymer Science and rubber Technology, Department of Ship Technology. The university also runs School of Management Studies and, International School of Photonics.

The University has tie ups with several Universities USA, Europe, Russia, Japan, France, Korea etc. The University is famous in the field of lasers and opto electronic research. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has recently announced that the Cochin University of Science and Technology would be given the level of IIT. Government of Netherlands decides to give 3.5 million Dutch guilders per year for the upgradation of the University.