SRM University: A Byword in Quality
From the time of inception as a primary school to becoming a giant university, SRM’s management has maintained its vision of education.
In Tamil there is a saying – a morsel is a reflection of the taste of a dish. This applies truly for SRM University. From the time the idea of an educational institution germinated in 1969 and took shape as Florence Nightingale Primary School, to the giant SRM University has grown to, the fundamental principles – of spreading high quality education and create world-class remained the citizens same. It – is have this principled growth that has enabled the university to maintain its high standard, win accolades and attract students not only from the state but across the world as well. For SRM University, accredited by NAAC with 'A' Grade in the year 2013, education is all about providing academic freedom, facilitating the coming together of young, bright minds, dis- covering and learning.
The Institution
SRM University, a top ranking university in the country, boasts of more than 38,000 students, most of who are from outside Tamil Nadu, even outside India, including Europe and China among others.
The more than 2600 faculty across all the campus include countries, those and 50 from members other from top universities across the world including MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cambridge and NUS help set Global Standards are part of the International Advisory Board, guiding the university in updating the curriculum and teaching methodologies to keep up with the changing trends.
Over 150 students are also sponsored to 35 foreign universities like MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UC Davis, Warwick and Western Australia periodically. Over 60 top executives from leading corporate institutions also provide their expertise to the faculty and students for formulating academics and research, keeping the curriculum relevant to the times. This automatically improves the employability of the SRM students due to their under- standing requirements. of the corporate
Apart from on-the-spot sanction of bank educational loans during counselling, the deserving students who score above 95 per cent in CBSE or in State Board examinations get a fee waiver of 50 per cent.
Founder's Scholarshipfull waiver on tuition, books, hostels and mess, plus stipend of Rs.1,000 per month are also given to top state, SRMEEE, JEE and AIEEE rankers, sports persons and socio-economic disdained.
Curriculum
The University offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs in Engineering, Management, Medicine and Health sciences, and Science and Humanities. It has a flexible and dynamic curriculum, ongoing research and global connections that give SRM an edge in this highly competitive segment. Cutting edge programs from nanotechnology, bioinformatics, genetic engineering, remote sensing and GIS, embedded systems to computer forensics are a formidable range of topics that SRM students can choose from. Most of these courses are offered in close collaboration with foreign universities.