Established in 1965 by St. George’s Forane Church, Edathua, St. Aloysius College, Edathua is a general degree college located in Alappuzha district, Kerala.

It is a first-grade college which has completed years of glorious service to the cause of higher education. Now, it is a well-established NAAC re-accredited centre of learning to offer a variety of undergraduate, postgraduate programs and Ph.D.

St. Aloysius Coolege, Edathua is a first grade college which has completed fifty four years of glorious service to the cause of higher education. The college is at present affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under Act, 1956. It was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with "A" Grade - (in 3rd Cycle) on May 5, 2015.

The college is situated in the Edathua Panchayat of the Kuttanad Taluk in the lake district of Alappuzha. It is the only temple of higher learning of the kind in the entire region of the one time granary of Kerala, Kuttanad. Standing atop the main building of the college, there is a panoramic view of the paddy fields, clothed in the richest green. The luxuriant greenery, meandering rivulets and the placid tranquility altogether provide a congenial atmosphere for learning and development.

St. Aloysius College was founded in 1965 by St. George’s Forane Church, Edathua. It was the realization of the vision and far sightedness of late Very. Rev. Fr. Zacharias Punnappadom (the first Manager) and Dr. P.T. Joseph (the first Principal) under the patronage of Servant of God Mar Mathew Kavukattu. The great visionaries had in their mind the noble task of imparting quality higher education in the backward agrarian region of Kuttanad which lacked any facility for higher education. The college, though run by the catholic minority community, admits students of all castes and creeds with due respect to different faiths and religious denominations.

The College had a very humble beginning. It started functioning in St. Aloysius High School as a junior college affiliated to the University of Kerala with 189 students, 9 teachers and 7 non-teaching staff. In 1966, the college was shifted to the present site. The institution owes an immense debt of gratitude to late Very Rev. Fr. Cyriac Kottayil who in his capacity as the manager was instrumental in erecting the main building of the college. In 1983, following the bifurcation of Kerala University, the college came under the jurisdiction of the newly established Mahatma Gandhi University.

To meet the ever growing demand for higher education in the region,the college was upgraded in 1977 by introducing undergraduate programme in Economics. Post graduate programme was introduced in 1984.

The College has now grown into a premier educational institution with 73 teaching staff, 19 non-teaching staff and 1149 students on the rolls. It has now to its credit 9 UG and 8 PG programs and 2 Ph.D programmes.

VISION

The college envisions the formation of global citizens with academic excellence and integrity of character who can champion the cause of a Just Society

MISSION

The mission of the college is to mould the students as skilled, worthy, global citizens who can uphold the values of peace, fraternity and love.

Our educational endeavours aim at forming leaders who are intellectually competent, spiritually mature, morally upright, psychologically integrated, physically healthy, socially acceptable and God-fearing, who will champion the cause of justice, love, truth and peace and who are ever open for further growth.

The College aspires towards creating a just and humane society where the dignity of the human person is respected, where unjust social structures are challenged, where the cultural heritage of ahimsa, religious harmony and national integration are upheld, and where the poor and marginalized are specially taken care of.

The institution aims at reaching out to the families, primarily of the students, to assist them in their needs, to share their joys, sorrows and to help them experience love and peace so that they feel the college as a home away from home.

The college is open to all students and they are accepted and cherished as they are in such a manner as to grow in their cultural, social and religious traditions. As they are privileged to be in the institution, they will also have a chance to get acquainted with the Person of Jesus Christ and His Gospel. The college has a special concern for the faith formation of the Christian youth and always aspires for value-based training and academic excellence.

The college is responsible to the society at large by making the resources available for the extension programmes, ongoing education and non-formal teaching.
The college is blessed with a community of teachers who are committed to their vocation, professionally competent, morally upright, just and humane in dealings and grow in the Christian vision of education. For the effective realization of this Aloysian Vision of education, we expect teachers, students, parents, alumni and our well-wishers to share the vision and co-operate with it wholeheartedly