Summary:
With the passing of the Kerala University Act of 1957, Travancore University was renamed the University of Kerala. Travancore in 1917 had one first grade college and one second grade college for women, a training college and a law college at Thiruvananthapuram (then Trivandrum). There were also two second grade colleges maintained by the CMS and LMS missions in Kottayam and Nagarcoil respectively. Ten colleges in Travancore that were affiliated to Madras University became the first affiliated colleges of the nascent university. Travancore University was finally established in 1937 and was one of the earliest universities in the country..