College of Forestry, Vellanikkara Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

The College boys hostel has a good reading room and indoor game facilities and is just a stone’s throw away from the college.

The College girl students reside in ladies' hostels (Harsha and Haritha) of the College of Horticulture within the main campus. A separate ladies' Hostel (Nila) near the College is provided for the PG students.

The college has a Gym facility for the students and 12 stations multi-gym.

The College Library houses 6500 titles related to forestry science

The College has facilities for sports and games including 12 station multigym, a basketball court with a pressure release ring, and indoor facilities for table tennis. These facilities are used regularly by both students and faculty.

The College has a separate computer lab with a full-time internet facility that has been established exclusively for the use of students.

The college has a canteen facility for staff and students.

The College has a fully air-conditioned seminar hall with a seating capacity of 100 persons and is equipped fully with modern audio-visual aids and projection systems is another academic facility of the college. The seminar hall is being widely used for conducting various functions and meetings of other colleges on the campus also.

The college has a Wi-Fi facility for the students and staff.

The college has well-equipped laboratories. In addition to UG and PG laboratories, separate laboratories for biochemical work, Silvi culture,  agroforestry, biotechnology, tree physiology, tree propagation, tree tissue culture, mensuration, wood quality testing, wood anatomy, seed technology,   forest management, wildlife science, etc. have been established. In addition, a central instrumentation facility is also available. Laboratories have the most modern equipment such as the Plant Water Status Console, Leaf Area Meter, Data Logger, Radiation Sensors, Plant Canopy Analyzer, Laminar Flow, Sound Level Meter, UV Spectrophotometer, Flame Photometer, Precision Balances, Portable Photosynthetic system, Continuous flow analyzer, Automatic Nitrogen Analyzer, Wood Micro-tome, Programmable Bio-freezers, Digital Vernier Calipers, Lux Meter, Image Analyser, TDS Meter, Densitometer, Electroscopes unit, etc.

The college has a health center with a first aid facility for the students.

The college has good networking for the alumni association.

The college has various clubs like Entrepreneurship Development Club which students can join.

The Cell helps every student explore placement opportunities by inviting various companies for campus recruitment of students who are in the final year of the program.

The wood workshop-cum-laboratory was inaugurated by the Sri. Benoy Viswom, Hon. Forest Minister on 24 November 2006, provided  woodworking and training facility for the students with special emphasis on advanced wood processing in frontier areas such as tissue processing, microtomy and microscopy. An integrated sawmill unit with a facility for sawing, planning and sanding conversion of timber specimens for the purpose of testing is also installed in this workshop.