AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM CHENNAI CAMPUS

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, also known as Amrita University, is a multi-campus, multi-disciplinary private deemed university in India with 19 constituent schools across ten campuses, including one in Chennai. The Chennai campus was opened in 2019 as an engineering school campus located in Vengal, Chennai. The university is headquartered in Ettimadai, Coimbatore, and its other campuses, including Chennai, function as satellite off-campuses of the same university under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. The university is run and managed by Mata Amritanandamayi Math, under the leadership of founder and chancellor Mata Amritanandamayi and vice-chancellor Dr. P. Venkat Rangan. All campuses, including Chennai, are centrally administered with uniformity, with academic departments overseen by deans, principals, and chairpersons. The university as a whole is accredited with the highest possible 'A++' grade by NAAC and was ranked 7th best university in India in NIRF 2024. As of 2023, the university had a faculty strength of over 2000 and over 30,000 students across all its campuses combined.