The Chancellor's Award was instituted by the Honourable Governor of Kerala to nurture the spirit of healthy competition among the State Universities in Kerala, in becoming vibrant centers of learning. This prestigious award carries an amount of Rupees Five Crore/ One crore a citation and Gold-Plated Trophy to the best performing university among Multi Disciplinary Universities and Specialised Universities (emerging University category) The prize money, provided by the State Government in its Budget, is meant for capital expenditure for any major project in the University.

UGC has mooted the concept of Cluster of Colleges as an arrangement for mutual sharing of resources, human and physical, among neighbouring colleges with a view to optimum utilization of the available facilities for enhancing enrolment and quality of education.

The programme aims to create awareness among the public about how higher knowledge affects and influences their standard of living as well as various aspects of human existence. The scheme postulates that, in a democratic society, everyone has the right be abreast of the advantages and repercussions of the new discoveries and inventions. The scheme also intends to develop and circulate a multimedia package, capable of explicating for the benefit of the common people the possibilities and implications of research and studies in the field of higher education which include Structural and Functional Genomics, Agro-biotechnology, Synthetic Bio-engineering, Bioinformatics, Bio Pharmacology, Nano-tech sensors, Nano-transmitters, Brain-Computer interface Devices, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, etc.

Dhaishanik Paryavaran or Learner Ecosystem Campus is a programme with a mission to reconstruct higher education campuses as live organic fields of knowledge acquisition. The scheme purports to transform the present teacher centred higher education institutions into student centred learning environs that encourage creativity and critical aptitude. The Council will take up the responsibility of developing a campus into such a learner ecosystem campus which can be taken as a model and copied by other institutions with necessary changes.