Anna University is situated in Chennai, the southern part of the city. This city was earlier known as Madras.
It promotes cooperation between industrial and academic communities apart from promoting research activities to a great extent.
The main campus of this university extends over few hectares connecting the Raj Bhavan to the south and the Adyar River to the north.
Educational Streams
Anna University conducts a swerve of courses in various academic disciplines. It has collaborations established with over 55 foreign institutions for the development of academic and research purpose.
The International affairs are handled adeptly with the assistance of professors from Germany, USA and Australia. This university is well-known for encouraging quality education in fields such as Technology, Engineering and Allied Sciences.
Anna University also takes adequate care of distance educational courses and programs in its Chennai centre.
Facilities
This university has sufficient facilities such as well-established library. This library offers many services to its users such as Bibliography, DELNET, Internet browsing, Reference, Reprography, MALIBNET service, CD-ROM Databases and e-services.
This university promotes other activities of the students namely, Computer Society, NSS and Youth Red Cross.
Educational Programs
Anna University offers under graduate as well as post graduate programs in fields such as science, civil engineering, architecture and planning, humanities, technology, electrical and electronics engineering.
It also offers MBA course to facilitate the students in acquiring master’s degree. This university has Madras Institute of technology, Alagappa College of technology as well as college of engineering, School of architecture and planning under its anvil.
Now it has over 6 government colleges, 225 engineering colleges and 3 government funded colleges under its wing in Tamil Nadu.
The university campus extends over 100 hectares and the UGC has a five star ranking in offering education. This university received this honor of ranking for five years in imparting technical education. Hence, it is well-known and students aspire to be a part of this university. |
