St. Teresa College was established in 1925 and is named after St. Teresa of Avila.

St.Teresa's College, a pioneering institution in the field of Higher Education in India.

The college was the first women's college of the erstwhile Cochin state and the second in the whole of Kerala by the congregation of the Carmelite sisters of St.Teresa.

The college was a second grade Arts College affiliated to the Madras University and offered the intermediate course with Ancient History, Modern History and Logic.

Vision and Mission:

St.Teresa's College envisions a life-oriented education that empowers women through a humanizing and liberative process, to be agents of transformation and development at different levels of life.

To promote a college community/society/nation where spiritual, moral and genuine values are lived and witnessed.