Sree Narayana College, Kannur is one of the biggest institutions of higher education in Kannur District. The college was founded in the name of his Holiness Sree Narayana Guru, the great saint and social reformer of our State, the Sree Narayana Trusts, Kollam. The founder Manager, Sri R.Sankar was mainly instrumental in physical beginning of a group of institutions named after Sree Narayana Guru.

This College was formally inaugurated on the 6th of July 1960 by the then Chief Minister of Kerala, Sri.R.Sankar from its status as a junior college it has now grown in to a full fledged. College offering various Post Graduate courses. The University now imparts instructions to around two thousand Students.

This college is situated on a serene twenty acre Campus Gordhan Giri at Thottada about 6 Kms South of Kannur town.