page_title: Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, Thrissur
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, Thrissur / History
caption_attribution_description: side view of Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, Thrissur, Kerala, India
context_page_description: Vidya Academy of Science and Technology is a privately financed engineering college in Thrissur District in Kerala. The college offers a degree in Bachelor of Technology and courses in six branches of engineering - Production, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical. The college also offers a degree in Masters in Computer Application. From the year 2011, the college has offered four MTech courses and two PhD programmes in Electrical engineering & Computer science engineering.
  The college was established and is administered by Vidya International Charitable Trust, a body formed by more than a thousand non-resident Keralites mostly based in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.
context_section_description: The college started functioning in August 2003 offering BTech courses in four branches of engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication, and Mechanical Engineering.
  From 2006, the college began to offer BTech programmes in Civil Engineering and Production Engineering. In the same year, the postgraduate programme of Masters in Computer Application was started. There are around 1900 students and 112 faculty members. From 2012, the college has offered MTech in Power electronics and Drives, Computer science and engineering, Structural engineering and Embedded systems. The college is one of the Research Center for Doctoral Research (PhD) of Anna University, Chennai.
caption: Side view of college
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