At the time when the congregation was seriously contemplating on opening up new avenues for higher education of women, the need to start a college of Arts and Science for strongly felt to impart quality education for the growth and development of Women who hail from rural areas and lower income group. It was mainly intended to cater to the need of the prospective women of the rural, backward and marginalized women folk.

As a result of those serious thoughts and desire, the Idhaya college of Arts and Science for Women came into existence on 4.8.2004. It was indeed yet another milestone in the history of immaculate congregation.