Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy
Type Private
Established 1984
Chancellor Ramachandran
Vice-Chancellor R. Sethuraman
Location Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Campus Rural, 168 acres
Affiliations UGC, AICTE, SIRO, NAAC, AIU
Website www.sastra.edu

The Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy, known as SASTRA University, is a deemed university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. Undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses are its focus. It offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in Engineering, Science, Education, Management and Arts.[1]

History

SASTRA University started in 1984 in the form of Shanmugha College of Engineering, affiliated to the Bharathidasan University, Trichy. In 2001 it was renamed as Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy. It was the first institution to get the 'Deemed University status' in Tamil Nadu. Srinivasa Ramanujam Center at Kumbakonam is affiliated to it.

In 2011, software company Tata Consultancy Services set a world record of recruiting 1,500 students from SASTRA, the largest recruitment by any company in the world from a single campus.[2]

Schools and departments

Schools in SASTRA University are:

It has received approval from the Bar Council of India to teach Law.[3]

Campus facilities

Central Library at SASTRA(Saraswathi Sadan)

The campus occupies a built up area of over 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2)[4] and houses a population of over 13,000 students.

The institute has nine boys hostels and five girls hostels providing accommodation to over 5000 boys and 3000 girls. There are facilities for sports and body building. There are 30 rooms with all basic amenities catering to the needs of the visitors.

The entire campus is networked with a 1 GB fibre-optic cable and is Wi-Fi enabled to provide wireless access to the 366 Mbit/s internet leased line for the students and faculty. Campus-wide wireless connectivity has been implemented at a cost of over Rs. 35 lakhs providing a wire-less seamless internet connectivity to anybody and anywhere in the campus. Important lectures are recorded using the Tegrity cart and is uploaded in the server & also maintained in the library for use by all the stakeholders. Students and faculty members are provided with Network Attached Storage facility which is platform-independent and is accessible throughout the campus.

Admissions

Admissions are through merit (marks from HSC and JEE (Main) and NRI Quota). The counseling is usually done during the later half of June with the college opening for freshers in the month of July.Admissions to the I year B.Tech., Programme are based on the marks secured in the +2 qualifying examination following the normalization process. To bring all candidates from different examining Authorities / Boards in the same scale of comparison and to create a list in the order of merit, the +2 marks are normalized. A first rank student of each board is considered to have obtained 100% mark and aggregate mark of all other students of the board are normalized with reference to that of the first rank student.

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. Its School Of Chemical and Biotechnology was ranked 1st among all private institutions in the country and 2nd (overall) in India.[5]

It has been highly appreciated by the Washington Accord team. The Washington Accord is an agreement that provides mobility for Indian engineering graduates around the world. There are nine countries that are signatories and four countries are provisional members. The Accord team visited India in 2005 and visited three government institutions and SASTRA to assess the quality of engineering education. It was impressed by the undergraduate facilities and expressed satisfaction about the universities quality and standards in its educational activities.

As a University, SASTRA has been re-accredited with GRADE 'A' by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous body established by the University Grants Commission. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has accredited SASTRA with A grade (Highest)putting it in the elite company of premier institutes.[6]

Festivals

In 2006, the Cult team, backed by the Dean of Planning & Development, Dr. S. Vaidhyasubramaniam, revived the intra-college cultural fests that were once held. The name suggested by the students, "Carpe Diem", to invoke one's talents and seize the day, was chosen by the dean, over his own suggestion of "Kuruksastra", a portmanteau of Kurukshetra, the site of the legendary war mentioned in the Indian epic Mahabharata, and SASTRA.

Carpe Diem '06 was a huge success, followed by Carpe Diem '07. After two years of intra-college fests, the university decided to conduct its first-ever inter-college fest and went with the name originally suggested by the dean: Kuruksastra.

Kuruksastra is a war of talent in the competitions. The fest includes English Literary events, Telugu, Hindi and Tamil events, Arts, Music, Dance, Dramatics and Gaming.

At the same time, the university's first inter-college technical fest, Daksh, was also conducted. It was a long weekend (Friday–Sunday), starting with Daksh and ending with KurukSastra.


The first edition of Kuruksastra was held on 2–3 March 2007.[7] The second edition of Kuruksastra was on 6–9 March 2008. It started the tradition of hosting musical celebrities for a "Pro Nite" show with singers such as Shankar Mahadevan, Karthik, Mahathi, Pop Shalini and Suchitra. It had over 1200 participants, making it one of the largest such festivals in the country.[8]

Clubs

See also

References

  1. ↑ - Higher Education India
  2. ↑ "Recruitment: TCS creates world record at SASTRA". ibnlive.in.com. September 18, 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "BCI approves SASTRA law programmes," The Hindu, 12 July 2008
  4. ↑ "Infrastructure @ SASTRA". sastra.edu. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  5. ↑ - CyberMedia Biospectrum Private School Survey 2008
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ It's contest time at SASTRA The Hindu Education Plus, 19 February 2007]
  8. ↑ Cultural event ends on musical note The Hindu Education Plus, 13 March 2008]

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