B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology

B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology is a private deemed university in Vandalur, a suburb of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1984 by philanthropist and entrepreneur B.S. Abdur Rahman as B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, one of the first self-financing engineering institutions in Tamil Nadu. It was initially affiliated with the University of Madras, and later with Anna University from 2001, until the Indian Government granted it deemed university status on 16 December 2008. It was known as B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent University until 2017, when it adopted its current name. The campus covers 50 acres on GST Road, between Kilambakkam Bus Terminus and Vandalur Zoo. The institute is organized into twelve constituent schools comprising eighteen departments, including four engineering schools, two science schools, and schools of architecture, business, law, pharmacy, Arabic and Islamic studies, and social sciences and humanities. It is governed by a Board of Management and an Academic Council, with each department maintaining a Board of Studies to develop curricula.