In 1976, the Master programme in Marine Geology was founded as a division under the School of Marine Sciences, CUSAT. In 1996, the division was elevated to departmental level as Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics. The department has become one of the few in India to provide advanced study and research opportunities in Marine Geology and Geophysics. The full-fledged two-year postgraduate programme in Marine Geology was established in response to worldwide advancements in general and national demands in particular in the area of Marine Geoscience. In 1992, a three year M.Sc. (Tech.) programme in Marine Geophysics was created as a logical extension of the existing Marine Geology programme, which has been reformed into a two year M.Sc. later. Since the commencement of the Marine Geophysics course in 1992, the Department's major strength has been the synergy between Marine Geology and Marine Geophysics. Both programmes are designed to meet the needs of various research institutions and survey organisations, as well as multinational companies engaged in oil, natural gas, mineral exploration, seabed surveys, remote sensing, and groundwater prospecting, by developing manpower in the fields of Geology and Geophysics, with an additional emphasis on marine areas. In addition to postgraduate academic programmes, the Department is actively involved in Ph.D. research in all key frontier areas of Earth Science research. For a creative teaching and research in Geoscience, the Department is fully equipped with infrastructure, experiment and computational facilities.