The school was constituted under the KUFOS Act 2010 by Government of Kerala and KUFOS first statute 2013 to offer academic, research and extension programmes in various aspects of Food Science and Technology, Biological oceanography, PhysicalOceanography, Biodiversity, Marine Microbiology, Biotechnology,Geoscience and Marine Chemistry and related fields. The School is
presently offering 7 M.Sc. programmes and PhD in respective subjects. The man power requirements in the field of Ocean studies and Food Sciences are huge and hence the postgraduate programmes have great relevance. The students are given intensive hands on training in Central and National Research Institutes such as,CMFRI, NIO, CIFT, INCOIS and CIFNET . While pursuing these courses the students get to learn practical aspects of Ocean studies and food sciences such as how to go about
sampling, analyzing samples, climate change predictions etc. The students successfully completing these courses will be equipped to find jobs in leading National and International research
institutions, organizations, industries and universities.
