Vidya Academy of Science and Technology

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 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 College is offering Four M.Tech course and Two Ph.D programmes in Electrical engineering & Computer science EngineeringThe college was established and is administered by Vidya International Charitable Trust (VICT), a body formed by more than a thousand non-resident Keralites mostly based in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.HistoryThe college started functioning in August 2003 offering B Tech courses in four branches of engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication, and Mechanical Engineering.From 2006 the college began to offer B Tech 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 is offering M.Tech 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 (Ph.D) of Anna University, Chennai.