The College has carved a niche in women’s education by upgrading its status as a Research Institute in 2012 with 6 Departments viz. History and Tourism, Statistics, Physics, Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Computer Science, and Commerce, offering Ph.D. programme. 6 Research Departments offer Full-time and Part-time Ph.D. Programme and 3 departments offer Part-time Ph.D. programme.22 faculty members are recognized as Ph.D. supervisors and 20 members as M.Phil. supervisors.

A centralized research room is available with 15 high-end systems with internet facility for all the research scholars. Well maintained laboratories, sophisticated instrumentation laboratory with GS, HPLC, FTIR, UV Spectrophotometer and PCR are available for research students of physical and life sciences.Culture room is available for fresh water algae, microbiology, mushroom and marine algae. The cell offers Plagiarism check through authenticated software – URKUND.

Area of Expertise

Department	Prioritized Research Areas
Tamil	Women’s Studies Modern Literature Bakthi Illakiyam
History	Women’s Studies
Economics	Social Sciences Monetary Economics Public Finance Human Resource Management
English	Linguistics English Language Teaching Indian Writing in English
Mathematics	Formal Languages Univalent Functions Graph Theory
Physics	X Ray Crystallography Crystal Growth Synthesis of Nanomaterials
Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology	Algology Mycology Microbiology
Statistics	Statistical Data Modelling Using Multivariate Techniques Order Restricted Inference
Computer Science	Data Mining Image Processing
Commerce	Marketing Management Finance