Anna University

BRIEF HISTORY OF ANNA UNIVERSITY:

Anna University was established on 4th September, 1978 as a unitary type of University. This University was named after Late Dr.C.N.Annadurai, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. It offers higher education in Engineering, Technology, Architecture and Applied 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. The University was formed by bringing together and integrating four well known technical institutions in the city of Madras (now Chennai) namely,

The University is situated in the southern part of the city of Chennai and it is 3 kms. from the nearest Railway Station (Guindy) and 10 kms. from Chennai Airport. The University's Main Campus extends over 189 acres abutting the Adyar River on the north and Raj Bhavan on the south. The Madras Institute of Technology at Chrompet constitutes the second campus of the University which extends over 52 acres. A third campus extending over 5 acres is located at Taramani, Chennai. These campuses have a variety of buildings serving the various needs of the University community. In 2001, Anna University was converted to an affiliating type University by bringing together all the Engineering colleges in the State of Tamil Nadu and was again reconverted to the unitary type in 2010. In 2012, Anna University was again converted to an affiliating type of University by bringing together all the Engineering Colleges in the State of Tamil Nadu under one umbrella to ensure uniform quality in engineering education.

Objectives of the University:

 To constantly raise the quality of engineering education thereby to produce superior human resource to match rapid technological developments

 To share its academic experience and infrastructure with other institutions for providing quality education across the State and help students to fulfill their dreams.

 To uphold the highest ethical and professional standards while imparting engineering education and while fulfilling its obligations to students and staff.

 To serve the society with technological advancement and to actively take part in building knowledge-based society.

VISION:

The vision of Anna University is to be a world class institution by producing professionals with high technical knowledge, professional skills and ethical values, and remain as a preferred partner to the industry and community for their economic and social development through excellence in teaching, research and consultancy. Anna University shall be recognized as a point of reference, a catalyst, a facilitator, a trend setter and a leader in technical education

MISSION:

Anna University shall contribute to the educational, economic and social development by

 producing students who are intellectually and technically equipped with well defined knowledge, skills and ethics who are creative thinkers, inspiring leaders and contributing citizens

 introducing high quality academic and research programmes and providing extension services in cutting edge technologies

 ensuring a supportive campus climate with dynamic leadership and development opportunities to meet the needs of the students, faculty and staff

 enhancing academic productivity through induction of quality faculty, accelerated graduation, credit banking, augmented continuing education opportunities and adoption of current technology

 sharing the intellectual resources and the infrastructural facilities among the academia from other institutions and among the industrial society, funding agencies and government

 enhancing the collaborative partnership between Industry and Institute for commercializing and transferring the latest technological know-how towards societal development