ANNAMALAI
UNIVERSITY
About the Annamalai University
The Annamalai University is a unitary,
teaching and residential university. Annamalai
University was founded by the munificence of the
farsighted and noble hearted philanthropist and
patron of letters the late Hon'ble Dr. Rajah Sir
Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad, Kt, LL.D., D.Litt.
He started several colleges and ultimately the
University in 1929. Since its inception, it has
progressively tried to realize the aims of the
noble Founder Pro-Chancellor. After him, his illustrious
son Padma Bhushan Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar
of Chettinad, was the Pro-Chancellor from 1948
to 1984 and he sedulously nurtured the growth
and development of the University.
The present Pro-Chancellor Dr.M.A.M. Ramaswamy,
a philanthropist and a patron of sports, is the
distinguished son of Dr.Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar.
The University has had the unique good fortune
of having a succession of eminent Vice-Chancellors
to guide its destinies. During the last seventy
eight years the University has grown rapidly and
consolidated its position as a unitary and residential
University with Forty nine Departments of Study
and over 2500 members on its teaching staff. Annamalainagar
is already a busy and full-fledged University
town east of Chidambaram, the abode of Lord Nataraja.
Annamalai University has had the unique good
fortune of having a succession of eminent Vice-Chancellors
to guide its destiny. Annamalai University is
all set to grow from strength to strength under
the stewardship of the present Vice-Chancellor,
Prof. Dr. M. Ramanathan, who is a reputed surgeon,
conscientious educationist, an able administrator
and an ardent promoter of social activities.
His perceptive understanding of the expanding
horizon of distance education in the country
and his encouragement to the Directorate of
Distance Education are highly appreciated by
educationists.
Annamalai University plays a vital role in disseminating
knowledge acquired through research to the surrounding
rural areas in which it is placed and it serves
the larger community through its Centre for
Adult Education and Extension, the Regional
Centre for Modernisation of Rice Mills and Extension
Services, Centre for Rural Development and Uplift
of Weaker Sections, the Department of Community
Health and Preventive Medicine, the Rajah Muthiah
Dental College, the NSS; and above all, through
its Directorate of Distance Education it takes
education to the doorsteps of thousands of adult
learners all over the country and abroad.
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