Dr. John Matthai Centre is affiliated with The University of Calicut. It is situated at Laloor, a suburban Village five Kilometers away from the heart of Trichur, the cultural capital of Kerala. Its spread over 18 acres of land abound with greenery, where the JMC is housed belonged to Dr. John Matthai, the legendary Hero and one of India’s most famous sons.

His wife Mrs. Achamma Matthai donated the ancestral building and 18 acres of land to the Calicut University.to start a centre for teaching and research in Economics. The University of Calicut started the Dr. John Matthai Centre at Thrissur in 1976 with the newly started University Department of Economics.