NPTEL is a project of MHRD initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003, to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. St.Peter’s College, Kolenchery became a NPTEL-local chapter (ID # 3381) in 2020 and since then a good number of students are taking up the online certificate courses of their choice.

Faculty members received mentor certificates from NPTEL for successfully mentoring various courses. Dr.Sindhu N, Dr.Teena Thomas, Smt. Remya G Nair were awarded with mentor certificates from NPTEL. The students who had qualified in the final exams were awarded with online certificates from NPTEL.