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Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) University
Sastra logo.png
Established 1984
Type Private
Vice-Chancellor Prof. R. Sethuraman
Location Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Campus Rural, 168 acres
Affiliations UGC, AICTE
Website www.sastra.edu

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) is a university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It offers a wide range of courses, undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses being the primary ones.

It started in 1984 in the form of Shanmugha College of Engineering, since renamed as the Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy. It offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in Engineering, Science, Education, Management and Arts, including some Doctoral programmes. [1]

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[edit] Schools and departments

Schools in SASTRA university are:

  • School of Computing
  • School of Management
  • School of Civil Engineering
  • School of Humanities & Sciences
  • School of Mechanical Engineering
  • School of Chemical & Biotechnology
  • School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
  • Centre for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials (CeNTAB)
  • Centre for Advanced Research in Indian System of Medicine (CARISM)
  • Directorate of Distance Education - SASTRA

Additionally, it has have received approval from the Bar Council of India to teach Law.[2]

[edit] Campus Facilities

Central Library at SASTRA(Sarashwati Sadan)

The campus occupies a built up area of over 1.2 million square feet (1,15,000 m²), and houses a population of over 9,000 students.

The institute has 8 boys' hostels and 4 girls' hostels providing so so accommodation to over 5000 boys and 3000 girls. A new hostel has been constructed for accommodating more on the campus. Also,the wi-fi range is being increased to the whole campus. The wi-fi facility has been extended to cover 7-Cube wadio (wireless radio)[3].The streaming of live matches is quite a relief to the sport fans.

The institute has a separate internet center and multimedia area and also has mini-departmental stores inside every hostel. There are also facilities for sports and body building. The academy possesses a HP RP8400 super computer for advanced computing facilities, and plans to establish a NANO park in its campus with an investment of 20 crores.

Admissions into this esteemed university is through 'Merit' and "AIEEE", and is very transparent. The counseling is usually done during the period of June-July months after the Plus-2 exams are over for all the students of various Boards.

[edit] Events and Accolades

The university has been recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. It was ranked 10th among private engineering colleges in the country by OUTLOOK 2008. Although its always better not to go by rankings as there is always a chance of manipulation and influence. Its 'School Of Chemical and Biotechnology' was ranked 1st among all private institutions in the country, and 2nd (overall) in india. [4]

In February-March 2007, the college hosted the first edition of its inter-college national-level Technical Festival Daksh and also the inter-college cultural Kuruksastra. In February-March 2008, they hosted the second edition of Daksh and Kuruksastra.

There are inter department techfest, organized every year.

  • School of EEE SANKALP,
  • School of computing CACHE,
  • School Of mechanical SAKSHAM,
  • School of Civil HINGES

[edit] Clubs

The University has various clubs, stretching from environmental ones to technical ones. The club GLOSS is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, while the club "Icon" deals with soft skills. The "iClub", which has been recently introduced, provides seminars and interactive sessions on popular subjects. There are clubs like The Electronics Club of SASTRA (TECS) and Robotics Club of SASTRA (RCS) to encourage the students, to develop the real time application.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] - Higher Education India
  2. ^ [2] "BCI approves SASTRA law programmes" - The Hindu, 12 July 2008
  3. ^ [3] "Triple launch at SASTRA University" - SASTRA News Archives, 25 Feb 2008
  4. ^ [4] - CyberMedia Biospectrum Private School Survey 2008

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