Morning Star College is a regular Arts and Science college affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University and accredited by NAAC. The college is the brainchild of the farsighted thought of three visionaries- Mar Augustine Kandathil (former Arch Bishop of the Arch Diocese of Ernakulam), Rev. Fr. John Pinakkat and Rev. Msgr. Mathew Mankuzhikkari. The postwar, pre-independence period in Kerala was a time of fast and disturbing changes in the social milieu of the state. They were deeply pained by the increasing instances of broken families, unwed mothers and orphaned children in many places around. They felt a dire need to lend a helping hand to individuals and families groping desperately through poverty, ignorance, illiteracy and the disruptive trends of the time. Their social concern and solicitude made them think of an apostolic mission for the well-being of families. This led them to the founding of the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth in 1948 with the motto ‘For God and Country’. Under their inspiration and guidance the Congregation fervently set about launching programmes of family apostolate at various levels of the society.
A major part of the dream of the founders was about starting an institution for women’s education. So, at a time when women’s education was not even heard of, the Congregation started a Home Science College at Angamaly in 1963 – the first women’s college of its kind in Kerala- with a vision of empowering young women as better homemakers and thus enabling them to contribute a creditable share to the process of nation-building. Rev. Msgr. Kuriakose Chiramel, Director of Nazareth Institutions and the founding Manager of the college undertook the task of materializing the cherished dream of the founding fathers.