[4] The campus, situated centrally in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, is less than a kilometre from Palayam, and is located beside the Government Law College, Trivandrum.

The work on the new Mechatronics Laboratary Complex being jointly set up by Mercedes-Benz and GEC, Trivandrum is underway.[when?]

Top rank holders of the Common Entrance Examination (CEE) conducted by government of Kerala opt for this college.

[7] The Mechanical Engineering block has been completed and houses machinery lab, the ADAM course classes and the main drawing hall.

[12][13] The department offers two post graduate programs : M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science[14] and M.Tech in Network Engineering.

In addition, the department provides technical support for the functioning of the campus-wide network in the college.

The department is one of the nodal centers for the facilitation of the Centralized Allotment Process (cap) for admission to professional courses.

Students from the department got selection for PG programmes in Indian Institute of Technologies and top ranked foreign universities.

Efforts are made to arrange lecturers in advanced areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering by professors from IIT and IISc.

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering has linkages with industry and scientific research organisations.

Civil engineers are problem solvers, meeting the challenges of pollution, traffic congestion, drinking water and energy needs, urban redevelopment and community planning.

The faculty-to-student ratio in GEC Barton Hill is 1:15, which is better than the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) stipulations.

The central library of the college houses 8000 books and periodicals including international journals and magazines.

The campus has a subscription to online journals from American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and IEEE.

The democratically elected college union spearheads academic, cultural and sports activities of the students in the campus.

Apart from the college union, all the departments have a students association which organizes academic events pertaining to their branch.

There is a student chapter of the IEEE and ASME in the college, which organizes technical seminars and related activities.

They, along with the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE), have released a custom Linux distribution named FreeElectron, which provides (along with an operating system) software tools required in the ECE curriculum.

The college is a member of the Technology Incubation Centre of the government of Kerala, which conducts Entrepreneurship Development Programmes and assists the students in starting their own enterprises.

As a part of Aagneya, a two-day camp called 'vaibhav' is held, aiming the specially abled people.