St. Xavier's College, Thumba, was founded by the Jesuits in 1964, and is affiliated with the University of Kerala.

It awards nine undergraduate degrees and two postgraduate degree.

[1] Founded in 1964, in 1965 the College was shifted to its present site in Thumba, a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram which is the capital of Kerala.

The College was upgraded in 1977 when co-education began.

In 2005 it became a Post Graduate College with the addition of an M.Sc.