Abstract The paper presents the contribution of Education faculty members of Annamalai University, describes the year wise growth and form wise distribution of the research output. Studies the impact of research under different departments in the education faculty of the Annamalai University and analyses the strong and weak areas of university research, collaborative nature of research in terms of authorship pattern. The results show that there is significant growth of research productivity in the faculty of education during the period of study with less collaboration.