Overview

The University of Madras (also known as Madras University) is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prominent universities in India, incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India under the British government.

It is a collegiate research university and has six campuses in the city: Chepauk, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Maduravoyal and Chetpet. It offers more than 230 courses under 87 academic departments of post-graduate teaching and research grouped under 18 schools, covering diverse areas such as sciences, social sciences, humanities, management and medicine along with 121 affiliated colleges and 53 approved research institutions. The university houses national centres for advanced research in nanotechnology,photonics and neurotoxicity. In addition, it has three Centres of Advanced Study (CAS) in biophysics, botany and the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.

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College Name University of Madras
Approved by AICTE
Establishment Year 1857
Ownership Private
Gender Accepted Male,Female
Address Navalar Nagar, Chepauk, Triplicane India - 600005, Chennai - 600005, Tamil Nadu
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University of Madras

University of Madras

Chennai

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