Thangal Kunju Musaliar Institute of Technology ( TKM Institute of Technology) is an institute of engineering and technology located in Karuvelil, Ezhukone, Kollam, Kerala, India. The institute was founded in 2002 as the seventh venture of the Thangal Kunju Musaliar Educational Trust to serve the growing requirement of trained technical manpower in India. TKMIT has been recognized as one of the premier private engineering colleges in Kerala.

TKM Institute of Technology is affiliated to the Cochin University of Science and Technology and All India Council of Technical Education. The institute is located in a 25-acre campus at Karuvelil, Ezhukone, 23 km from the heart of Kollam city and close to the technology and industrial campus of Techno Park, Kollam. It offers 6 undergraduate programmes and 5 postgraduate program under 8 departments. The college has around 100 students and more than 1830 faculty & supporting staff members.

Eligibility

Candidates with a pass in the plus-two examination of Kerala Higher Secondary Board or its equivalent with Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry as optional subjects or any other examination accepted as equivalent thereto, securing a minimum of 50% marks in Mathematics and 50% marks in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry put together are eligible for admission. Candidates with a Diploma in Engineering awarded by the Board of Technical Education of the Government of Kerala or a Diploma as accepted equivalent thereto securing a minimum of 50% marks in the final Diploma Examination are eligible for admission.

Usual concession to SC/ST and other eligible communities will be allowed as per the rules and regulations of the Government. Candidates shall be Indian National (this is without prejudice to the provision for admitting foreign nationals as per directives of the Government of India), and there is no restriction with regard to age for admission is made through an entrance examination conducted by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Thiruvananthapuram, every year.

Procedure

There are 60 seats in each of the three disciplines. Fifty percent of the seats (thirty seats in each discipline) are filled by the controller of Entrance Examinations based on the marks secured at the Common Entrance test. The remaining seats are management seats to be filled on the basis of:

Marks obtained by the candidate at the qualifying examination;

Marks obtained by the candidate at the Common Entrance Test conducted by the Controller of Entrance Examinations.

Performance of the candidate at an interview conducted by the institution;

Candidates who wish to be considered for the seats under management quota or lapsed seats shall apply separately to the individual institutions. Application forms can be obtained from the TKM Institute of Technology or TKM College Trust Office on payment of Rs.100 (if required by post send DD for Rs.130/- addressed to TKM Institute of Technology payable at Federal Bank, Kundara).

• Year Started 2002
• Approval AICTE, Govt. of Kerala
• Affiliation Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT)
• Email tkminst@gmail.com
• Website http://www.tkmit.ac.in
• Fax 0474 2482833, 2482083
• Type Aided
• Location TKM Institute of Technology, Musaliar Hills, Karuvelil PO, Ezhukone, Kollam 691505
  Phone: 0474 2482833, 2482083
• Course B.Tech undergraduate streams
  Electronics and Communication Engineering
  Electrical & Electronics Engineering
  Computer Science and Engineering
  Civil Engineering
  Mechanical Engineering
  Food Technology
  Bio-Medical Engineering
  Postgraduate streams (M.Tech)
  Software Engineering
  Electronics with Specialization in VLSI & Embedded Systems
  Opto-Electronics Engineering
  Computer & Information Science
  Digital Signal Processing