N S S College of Engineering, Palakkad is one of the most reputed, premier engineering educational Institution in Kerala. Founded in 1960 by Nair Service Society under the leadership of late Bharatha Kesari Mannathu Padmanabhan, during the second five year plan with the assistance of the Central and State Government under the grant-in-aid scheme, affiliated to the Kerala Technological University, the College has an enviable heritage and legacy of grooming brilliant engineering professionals who later made their mark in industrial and other sectors of the country and abroad.