The Department of Chemistry aims to create a centre of excellence through the formation of young people empowered to create a bright future for themselves and others, through dissemination of knowledge, skills and noble values. The department enables the students with deep knowledge and awareness of current developments in the field of chemistry. The study of chemistry equips the students with skills necessary to succeed at the very highest level in the competitive world.

The Department of chemistry started functioning in the year 1964 along with the establishment of Kuriakose Elias College, Mannanam, as a junior College( with pre-degree courses- 1st, 2nd and 3rd groups) which was affiliated to the Kerala University.

From 1967 we had to manage two batches of subsidiary courses- one batch of 32 students from botany stream and another 32 students from physics main, over and above the burden of 32 students of B.Sc chemistry main. Postgraduate course in Analytical Chemistry was started in 1998 with a sanctioned strength of 12 students.

At present the teaching faculty comprises of 8 permanent faculty members-six of them have Ph.D. degrees and the remaining are M.Phil. holders. All the faculty members are having brilliant academic record. One faculty member has submitted the PhD thesis and another one is doing research on a part time basis.