St. Thomas Arts & Science College, Puthencruz, is the fifth educational institution owned and managed by Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Education Trust, Malecruz. The college is affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, and started functioning in June 2006. This institution has been established with the main objective of imparting good quality education to students aspiring to achieve academic excellence in a truly congenial and disciplined atmosphere. The college upholds the ideal that education should be for the all-round development of the personality of a student, and hence provides sufficient opportunities and facilities for necessary co-curricular and extra-curricular activities
Our mission is to provide a learning environment in which students of the St. Thomas College will have the greatest possible opportunity for academic achievement, intellectual development, and personal growth in a supportive environment which recognises the rights of individuals to their individuality while encouraging them to develop a sense of community belonging, and a set of high ethical and professional values.
We strive to uphold the following values:
The primary goal of the institution is to motivate each of its students to become a competent, responsible, self-reliant and wholesome individual with a deep sense of goodwill and social commitment.