The Department offers three-year graduate and four-semester post-graduate courses in Zoology, and also a three-year B.Sc Biotechnology. The Department is equipped with a fully functional laboratory as well as research facilities. The Department of Zoology obtained recognition from the University of Kerala as a Research Center in 1988. The center has research facilities in areas like Environmental Biology, Fish Biology, Fish Genetics and Fish Physiology. The center admits Ph.D. students either on full-time or part-time basis under specialized research supervisors.

The center has undertaken several research projects sponsored by agencies like the UGC; Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram; International Foundation for Science, Sweden; DBT (Govt. of India), Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE). The center also gets research funds from the University of Kerala.

Attached to the center is a Seminar Hall equipped with audio-visual aids like T.V., VCR Overhead Slide Projectors and LCD projector, in keeping with the needs of post-graduate students and research scholars. As part of extension services, the center carries out quality testing of drinking water for the benefit of the local public. Counseling services relating to courses and careers in Biology are also available at the center.