About University
Annamalai University is a public university in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. There were three reputed colleges were established in the decade of the 1920s by Rajah Sir S. R. M. Annamalai Chettiar. With the help of local government then, Rajah Sir S. R. M. Annamalai Chettiar agreed to turn over his babies Sri Minakshi Sanskrit College, Sri Minakshi Tamil College, and Sri Minakshi College into a university and today they are known as Annamalai University which were formed way back in 1928. The current chancellor of the University is Mr. Banwarilal Purohit. The University also has four affiliated colleges. Annamalai University Chidambaram is one of the largest universities in India as it is spread in over 950 acres of land. It is South Asia's largest autonomous and residential University. All in all, it has 49 departments split into ten faculties. The courses at the university range in various domains of marine sciences, arts, science, education, fine arts, Indian languages, engineering and technology, medicine, agriculture, and dentistry. These faculties are then further divided into many departments. For example, in the science faculty, there are ten departments. That includes the likes of mathematics, physics, chemistry, statistics, botany, zoology, earth sciences, biochemistry in biotechnology, microbiology, and computer and information science. Moreover, each department offers many courses, for instance, B.Sc., B.Com, B.Pharm, B.E., M.Sc., M.C.A., M.Phil. etc. It is not easy to pen down all the courses here due to the University's broad spectrum of faculties and courses. Therefore, if you are interested in more about the courses, the criteria eligibility, and other details, you can refer to Annamalai University's official website. According to NIRF 2019, the university has made the cut in top 150 universities in India. It was placed 12th and 25th for pharmacy and medicine respectively. Annamalai University is listed among the top 1500 universities in 2019 by Times Higher Education World University Ranking and the top 500 universities for its physical and life science programs. In the 2019 QS World Rankings, the University is ranked 298 in Asia, 74 in BRICS, and 43 in India. For its ongoing participation in scientific collaboration and success, the University was ranked 20th in the CWTS Leiden rating. In terms of top government universities in India, it comes in at number 13 and is ranked the seventh best University in Tamil Nadu.