Department Profile

The Department of Botany at the Union Christian College is one of the leading departments dedicated to teaching and research with specialization in plant and fungal biology. The department consists of 7 faculty supported by 4 administrative staff including a gardener and herbarium keeper. The Department offers undergraduate programme in Botany with Horticulture and Nursery management as elective. The department also offers add-on courses in Flower arrangement, Ornaments and Jewelries from plant products, and Cosmetics from Botanicals.

For MSc. course in Botany, the major electives is Biotechnology. The Department have a Library, with a large collection of current periodicals and over 200 books and  internet and multimedia presentation facilities. . The department also houses a herbarium with about 3500 specimens and has close links with the T. C. Joseph Botanical Garden and Arboretum.

The Department is an approved research centre of Mahatma Gandhi University and there are three research supervisors. The major areas of research are Mycology, Plant Pathology, Plant Biotechnology, Ecology, Systematics, and Ethnobotany.

Established in 1953 – University of Travancore.
 Post Graduate course -1965.
The Department recognized as a research centre by
 University of Kerala -1979
 Mahatma Gandhi University -1983