Established in 1988 by the Adaikalamatha Educational Health Charitable Trust, Adaikalamatha College is a self financing co-educational college situated at Vallam. Affiliated to
Bharathidasan University, it offers under graduate courses in computer science, industrial electronics, applied physics, commerce, business administration, and mathematics. The post graduate courses include social work, business administration, applied physics, electronics, information technology and computer application. The college has well equipped laboratories, computer labs, and other basic infrastructures in a campus of over 30 acres.