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About University

Anna University is one of India’s premier engineering universities. Established in 1978, it offers higher education in Engineering, Technology and Allied Sciences.

Anna University was formed on September 4, 1978 as a unitary type of university. It integrated 4 well-known technical institutions in the city of Chennai (previously known as Madras), the oldest of which was the College of Engineering, Guindy, started in 1794. Perarignar Anna University of Technology (PAUT) was the original name used in 1978. In 1982 the current name of Anna University was coined removing the words “Perarignar” and “Technology”. In December 2001, it was converted into an affiliating university, with almost all engineering colleges in the state of Tamil Nadu under its fold and also absorbing all the 6 government engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu as its constituent colleges.

It is also ranked tenth (10) by the Outlook India magazine for the year 2007 in the top 50 government engineering colleges in India. Anna University, one of the premier technical institutions in the country, is committed to ensuring transfer of knowledge of the highest order from teachers to students. The transformation of classroom technology from hardware into software related tools for teaching and learning depends on knowledgeable and dedicated teachers who have core-technology competencies and skills. Anna University can proudly boast of such teachers who are very knowledgeable and who serve in the cause of education with great sincerity and dedication.

The University with its infrastructure facilities existed has started growing and raised to the standards of Higher Education and has worldwide recognition in the field of Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences.

Considering the excellent growth of Anna University, the Government of Tamil Nadu, during December 2001, have upgraded the University from unitary typo to affiliating type of University by bringing together about 250 Engineering Colleges in the State of Tamil Nadu. Since 13 Feb, 2007 only the colleges situated in the districts of Chennai, Thiruvallur, Vellore, Kanchipuram, Thiruvannamalai and Vilupuram in Tamil Nadu State have been affiliated to Anna University. Anna University has under its fold four campuses (CEG, ACT and SAP in the Main Campus and MIT in Chromepet) having departments of Engineering, Technology and Applied sciences, and, under affiliation, about 108 self financing colleges and 1 Government College located in the above districts of Tamil Nadu.

Achievements of the University

Anna University,Chennai turns out over 65000 engineering graduates every year, the largest number of engineers from any University in India.The university has over 3800 Ph.D. Scholars registered in ts various departments of the University and in affiliated engineering colleges in the state & approved R&D organizations.

Anna University Chennai has conducted University examinations with the assistance of 10 zonal centers since 2002. About 2,55,000 undergraduate students and 35,000 post graduate students register for semester examinations and the examinations are conducted for 31 US and 70 PG Programmes involving 3,000 subjects. Nearly 2 million answer scripts are valued in 10 zonal centers by 8,000 examiners.Anna University Chennai has created a “Centre for Distance Education” to conduct MCA, MBAand M.Sc. Computer related courses under Distance Education Mode. The IT Companies namely TCS., Infosys, L&T and HCL have agreed to have a common aptitude test that would rank students on the skill sets required for the industry. The university has proposed to establish a state-of-the-art building in the proposed CT Park in the Guindy Campus and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),and has agreed to provide infrastructure for its R&D training research centre. HP announced that the university has been awarded a “Technology for teaching” Grant of US $70,000. This grant will be used to establish a Centre for M-learning with the support of HP to engage the faculty to promote the use of mobile and wireless technologies.

Past of the University

On May 17, 1794 the Survey school was started with just eight boys in a building near Fort St. George. The school has become India’s largest technological University by catering to the needs of 4 lakh students.Now the university is the leading university in india and offered many courses

after the stating the the university it added many more colleges and now having very big branches.

Campous

The University’s main campus is situated in the southern part of Chennai and extends over 100 acres (400,000 m²) adjoining the Adyar River and the Raj Bhavan. It contains the College of Engineering,the Alagappa College of Technology, and the School of Architecture and Planning. The campus also houses three technical departments of the University of Madras. The Madras Institute Of Technology at Chromepet constitutes the second campus and extends over 200,000 m². The third campus of the University is located at Taramani near the Instronic campus, Adyar.