• Rank: # 13th NIRF
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Anna University, Chennai

Anna University is one of the best universities of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in Chennai and offers around 20 undergraduate courses in Engineering and Architecture. Since December 2001, it has brought into its fold about 426 self-financing Engineering colleges, 6 government colleges and 3 government-aided Engineering colleges located in various parts of Tamil Nadu.

The university was formed on 4th September 1978 with the name 'Perarignar Anna University of Technology'. The current name was adopted in 1982. By the end of 2001, Anna University was converted into an affiliating university as most of the engineering colleges of Tamil Nadu were affiliated to it.

It offers a wide variety of graduate, master’s and doctoral programmes in all the fields of studies to the students. Anna University admission notification releases in the month of July/August. By February every year, the applications close. Aspirants must give TNEA entrance test to qualify. The exam is usually conducted in the month of May. Classes start around September.

Ranking

# 13th

NIRF 2023

Engineering & Technology

# 17th

NIRF 2022

Engineering & Technology

# 10th

Outlook 2021

Engineering & Technology

# 18th

NIRF 2021

Engineering & Technology

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Campus

Campus Infrastructure
Anna University campus is huge and beautiful. The campus is well maintained and there is a lot of open space in the campus which is marked with students almost the entire day.

The college labs are average. The library has a large volume of books and journals. There are many surveillance cameras to monitor the activities of students.  All the floors of the library are air conditioned. The university as well as the hostels are Wi-Fi enabled.
Ranking
University Ranked As 8th Position In the Category Of Engineering and 6th Position In The Category Of Architecture and 28th Position in the Category Of Business Management By NIRF For The Year 2018.
Attendance and Discipline
The university is very strict when it comes to attendance. Students are expected to maintain a minimum of 75% attendance.  The defaulters are severely punished and aren’t allowed to take the exams. Lab sessions are conducted twice a week and students are expected to wear only formals. The university ensures that students wear their ID at all times.
Crowd
Majority of the students are from Tamil Nadu, of which students from Chennai form a majority. Surprisingly, girls outnumber boys. Students don’t have a problem getting along; they do have a good junior-senior interaction. Although the college gets the top scorers of the state, students are not complete bookworms. They participate in many extra-curricular activities.

Ragging is taken seriously by the administration. The anti ragging committee at the university ensures that there is no ragging activity on the university campus. Various NSS and NCC programmes are also available for the students to take advantage of which is a pre-requisite for many government jobs.
Faculty
Students have no complaints about the faculty. They are very well experienced and highly qualified. The EEE faculty is considered to be the best. The core branches have better faculty when compared to the newer branches.  Many of the faculty members are alumni of the institute itself. They are approachable and friendly. Besides the academic curriculum, teachers also take care of the overall personality development of the students.
Placement
Anna University has an active placement cell consisting of placement and training officer and student representatives from each discipline. Student in-plant training, summer projects, final year projects for graduate students and campus recruitments are also arranged by this cell.

The Department of Chemical Engineering of the university is the most sought after department for placement. Some of the top companies for placement in this university are:
     •    Bayer
     •    Essar    
     •    Fluor Daniel
     •    Gharda Chemicals    
     •    GlaxoSmithKline
     •    Haldia    
     •    Petrochemicals
     •    Heinz    
     •    Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
     •    Indian Oil Corporation
Facilities
University Library:
The University Library, which has been established in the year 1978 gained autonomy from December 2000. It is housed in a three storeyed new Building located at the eastern side in the main campus. The total area of the Library building is about 4122 sq.m. 30 video cameras are placed at strategic points in the library for surveillance. The MIT campus also has a library of area 1256 sq.m. Around 10,157 registered uses are in access of the library. Many knowledge-based services like that of Reference, Bibliography, MALIBNET service., DELNET, Reprography, CD-ROM Databases, Internet browsing and e-services are provided by the library for its users.
Students Activities:
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Literary Club:
Anna University, Chennai is a premier technological university which offers higher education in Engineering, Technology and allied Sciences relevant to the current and projected needs of the society.Besides promoting research and disseminating knowledge gained therefrom, it fosters cooperation between the academic and industrial communities.


Contact Details

Anna University, Chennai

Anna University, Sardar Patel Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600025

Phone: + 91- 44- 2235-1126
College Website