College of Forestry, Thrissur  was established in 1986.

The college is affiliated under the Kerala Agricultural University.

This is the only institution accredited by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi for teaching tropical forestry in the state of Kerala, India.

The college was established at Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) with the mandate of developing human resource required in the field of forestry such as Silviculture, agro forestry , forest management, tree breeding, wildlife, wood science and other related areas.

The main goal of the institute is to train professionals in forestry so that they can take up the challenges for the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources of the country in an effective manner.