BNV College of Teacher Education, Thiruvallam: Courses, Admission 2025, Fees, Scholarship, Placements, Ranking

BNV College of Teacher Education, Thiruvallam (BNCTE), has made a reputation and prominence as college dedicated to the education of the future. This affiliated college was set up in 2005 and is in Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala. The college is spread over 5 acres of land approved by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) to set high standards of teacher education. It provides three full time courses in education having total intake of 97 plus sixteen faculty members. In terms of the students’ gender distribution, the college stays gender neutral and allows the enroled students of both genders.

BNVCTE provides various services intended for improving the learning process of the students. These are-food service facilities, gym/workout facilities, laundry-vlecture, entertainment lounges, well stocked library with over 6000 books that make specialised in education faculty. Modern IT facilities are also available on the campus making sure that the students adapt to current technological developments in learning. For human development, a facility of sports events and an auditorium for cultural as well as academic shows is provided at BNVCTE. It’s also important that the college is committed to the students’ welfare; there is a health facility that offers first aid, a cafeteria where students can take their snacks, and transportation for students and staff who use these services to get back to their college.

 BNVCTE has provided three courses to the trainee teacher education programmes at three different levels. Some of them are Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed), Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) and Master of Education (M.Ed). Each is designed as a full-time two-year programme in recognition of the fact for which the college is committed to offering a broad and thorough preparation of teachers. 

BNV College of Teacher Education has a highly competitive admission policy, which means that admission is, in most cases, given to students based on their performance in their previous year’s exams. For the B.Ed programme, the admission process of marks secured in qualifying examination along with the entrance examination policy of the state government, UT administration and affiliated university is taken into consideration. The M.Ed programme is also laid down in the same pattern, candidates will be assessed based on the performance of the qualifying examination, entrance test or any other method prescribed by the concerned authority. The D.El.Ed programme also has merit based admission policy outsourcing marks of the qualifying examination/entrance test as per state/UT norms. The functioning of the college is through selection of competitive candidates and searching for motivated people who want to devote their work to education.