Only ten schools in the State of Travancore, which at that time were affiliated with the University of Madras, became the affiliated colleges of Travancore University. In 1954, the unified state of Kerala arose with most of Travancore and the entire state of Cochin and the Malabar area of the Madras presidency became part of it. The Law of the University of Kerala (Law 14 of 1957) came into force and the University of Travancore was renamed the University of Kerala. The university had three campuses located in three different parts of the state viz. Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Kozhikode. The number of affiliated colleges grew phenomenally. However, in 1968 the Kozhikode University Center became a full-fledged university, the University of Calicut, which affiliated schools located in the districts of Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode and Kannur and transforming the Kozhikkode Center into University Departments . The University of Cochin Science and Technology - CUSAT (1971), Kerala Agricultural University (1971) and Mahatma Gandhi University (1983) were later established, with CUSAT taking the University center in Cochin. These developments have reduced the jurisdiction of the University of Kerala to the districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha and some parts of the district of Pathanamthitta.