Set up in 1968 as the second university in Kerala: the University of Calicut

Background

The University of Calicut is in the news this week after violence during the campus union elections led to classes being suspended. The university was set up in 1968 and is the second university to be established in Kerala. It runs teaching departments and study centres of its own, among them the Dr. John Matthai Centre at Thrissur. Its statutes and ordinances govern the affiliated colleges under it, and it conducts their examinations and awards their degrees. For an aspirant the useful points are the year of establishment and its place in the order in which Kerala's universities came up, because questions are set on both.