GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Government College of Education, Komarapalayam is a co-educational state government education college situated on the Olapalayam road in Komarapalayam, a textile town on the banks of the Cauvery and Bhavani rivers in Namakkal District, Tamil Nadu. Established in the academic year 1955-56 by the then Government of Madras, it was originally affiliated to the University of Madras, Chennai, and offered a B.Ed. Degree course and a Pandit Training Course. An M.Ed. Degree course began as an evening course in 1974-75, the Pandit Training Course ended in October 1976, and the M.Ed. course became full-time in 1982-83. The college became co-educational in 1990-91. It is now affiliated with Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, Chennai, established in 2008-2009, and is approved by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), New Delhi. It holds a 'B' Grade accreditation from NAAC in its second accreditation cycle. The college has departments in Tamil, English, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, History, and Education, along with infrastructure including hostels, a basketball court, playground, seminar hall, Kamarajar building, psychology and language laboratories, and a library.