The Department of Geology was started in 1981. Postgraduate course in Environmental Sciences started in the year 2000. The Department was recognized as a research center of the University of Calicut in the year 2010. The post graduate programme in Applied Geology was started in 2014 and an additional B.Sc. batch with Chemistry and Physics as complementary subjects was started in 2017. The Government of Kerala sanctioned an integrated 5 year postgraduate programme in Geology in 2020.The faculty members of the department regularly get external funding through research projects from state and central government agencies. The Department has also organized national and international colloquiums, conferences and workshops. The Department has Memorandum of Understanding for academic and research collaboration with national and international institutions like Leibniz Institute of Applied Geophysics [Germany], University of Zululand [South Africa] and PAMA for archaeological studies at Thiruvananthapuram.