The University of Madras (informally known as Madras University) is a
public
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state university
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State univer ...
in
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
,
Tamil Nadu
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, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in India, incorporated by an act of the
Legislative Council of India under the
British government.
It is a
collegiate research university
A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are the most important sites at which knowledge production occurs, along with "intergenerational kn ...
and has six campuses in the city:
Chepauk
Chepauk is a locality in Chennai, India. The name Chepauk is popularly used to refer to the M. A. Chidambaram International Cricket Stadium, also known as the Chepauk Stadium. It is also home to the Chepauk Palace, built in the Indo-Saracenic ...
,
Marina,
Guindy
Guindy is one of the most important neighborhoods of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and is nicknamed as ''The Gateway to Chennai''. The Kathipara junction where Anna Salai, Mount-Poonamallee Road, Inner Ring Road, 100 Feet Road or Jawaharlal Nehru Ro ...
,
Taramani
Tharamani is an area in the south Indian city of Chennai. It is known for the presence of the city's first IT parks and numerous government educational and research institutions. It is located adjacent to the posh residential area of Adyar an ...
,
Maduravoyal
Maduravoyal is a residential neighbourhood located in the west of Chennai, India. As of 2011, the town had a population of 86,195.
Maduravoyal also has a name as "ettam kal" (8th mile), so it could be famous in British Period too, it is exac ...
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 the national centres for advanced research in
nanotechnology,
photonics
Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. Though ...
and
neurotoxicity
Neurotoxicity is a form of toxicity in which a biological, chemical, or physical agent produces an adverse effect on the structure or function of the central and/or peripheral nervous system. It occurs when exposure to a substance – specificall ...
. In addition, it has three ''Centres of Advanced Study (CAS)'' in
biophysics
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...
,
botany
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...
and
mathematics.
University of Madras is the alma mater of five
presidents of India
The president of India is the head of state of the Republic of India and the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. The president is referred to as the first citizen of India. Although vested with these powers by the Constitution of In ...
, including
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; two Indian physics
Nobel laureates,
CV Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering.
Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that wh ...
and
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; several notable mathematicians including
Srinivasa Ramanujan;
Abel Prize winner
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan; and
Turing Award
The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in comput ...
winner
Raj Reddy among others.
The
National Assessment and Accreditation Council
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is a government organisation in India that assesses and accredits Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is an autonomous body funded by the University Grants Commission and headquarte ...
has conferred 'five star' accreditation to the university in the first cycle, and subsequently with its highest 'A' grade. The University of Madras has been given the status of 'university with potential for excellence (UPE)' by the
University Grants Commission. Madras University is also recognized among the 18 universities in India having the 'Centre with Potential for Excellence in Particular Area (CPEPA)' with a focus on
drug development
Drug development is the process of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug discovery. It includes preclinical research on microorganisms and animals, filing for re ...
and
climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to ...
.
History
The first-ever demand for higher education in
Madras Presidency was given in a public address to
Lord John Elphinstone, governor of Madras, signed by 70,000 residents when the
Governor-in-Council
The King-in-Council or the Queen-in-Council, depending on the gender of the reigning monarch, is a constitutional term in a number of states. In a general sense, it would mean the monarch exercising executive authority, usually in the form of ap ...
was contemplating "some effective and liberal measures for the establishment of an improved system of national education." This public petition, which was presented by the Advocate General Mr George Norton on 11 November 1839, pressed the need for an English college in the city of Madras. Pursuant to this, Lord Elphinstone evolved a plan for the establishment of a central collegiate institution or a ‘university.’ This university had twin departments – a high school for the cultivation of English literature, regional language, philosophy and science, and a college for instruction in the higher branches of literature, philosophy and science.
The University Board was constituted in January 1840 with Mr George Norton as its president. This was the precursor of the present
Presidency College, Chennai
Presidency College is an art, commerce, and science college in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. On 16 October 1840, this school was established as the Madras Preparatory School before being repurposed as a high school, and then a gra ...
. A systematic educational policy for India was formulated 14 years later by
Wood's despatch
In 1854, Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the British East India Company, sent a formal dispatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India, suggesting a large shift to English language use within India. Sir C ...
, which pointed out the rationale for "creating a properly articulated system of education from the primary school to the University." The dispatch recommended the establishment in the universities of professorships "for the purposes of the delivery of lectures in various branches of learning including vernacular as well as classical languages." As a result, the University of Madras, organised on the model of the University of London, was incorporated on 5 September 1857 by an act of the
Legislative Council of India.
The university progressed and expanded through the 19th century to span the whole of
South India
South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana, as well as the union territ ...
, giving birth to universities like
Mysore University
The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, the Maharaja of Mysore. The university is recognised by the University Grants Commission ...
(1916),
Osmania University
Osmania University is a collegiate university, collegiate Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farma ...
(1918),
Andhra University
Andhra University ( IAST: ''Āndhra Vișvakalāpariṣhat'') is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926.
History
King Vikram Deo Verma, the Maharaja of Jeypore was one of the biggest d ...
(1926),
Annamalai University (1929),
Travancore University (1937) presently
University of Kerala
University of Kerala, formerly the University of Travancore, is a state-run public university located in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala, India. It was established in 1937 by a promulgation of the Maharajah of Travancore, Chit ...
,
Sri Venkateswara University (1954),
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) is a public state university located in Madurai city, in southern Tamil Nadu, India, established in 1966. MKU is one of the 15 universities in India with the University with Potential for Excellence status, wh ...
(1966),
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (1971),
Anna University
Anna University is a public state university located in Tamil Nadu, India. The main campus is in Chennai. It was originally established on 4 September 1978 and was named after C. N. Annadurai, the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
History & ...
(1978),
Tamil University (1981),
Bharathidasan University
Bharathidasan University (BDU) is a university in the city of Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located on Tiruchirappalli-Pudukkottai National Highway 336. It has affiliated colleges in the districts of Ariyalur district, Karur, Nag ...
(1982),
Bharathiar University (1982),
Mother Teresa Women's University
Mother Teresa Women's University, a state university of the Government of Tamil Nadu, is situated at Kodaikanal, in the Palani hills of South India. It was established in the year 1984 by the enactment of Tamil Nadu Act 15. This university aim ...
(1984),
Alagappa University
Alagappa University is a public university located in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. Originated from Alagappa Arts College, founded by Alagappa Chettiar in 1947, it was established in 1985 by an Act of the Tamil Nadu government. It was conve ...
(1985),
Dr. M.G.R. Medical University (1989),
Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (1989),
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University is a university in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was hived off the Madurai Kamaraj University on 7 September 1990.
The motto of the university is "In Pursuit of Excellence". It is named after the Tamil s ...
(1990),
Periyar University (1997),
Dr. Ambedkar Law University (1996) and
Thiruvalluvar University (2002).
In 1912 endowments were made to the university to establish departments of Indian History, Archaeology, Comparative Philology and Indian Economics. In that year the university had 17 departments, 30 teachers, and 69 research scholars. Later the research and teaching functions of the university were encouraged by the
Sadler Commission and the gains of the university were consolidated by the enactment of the Madras University Act of 1923. About this time, the territorial ambit of the Madras University encompassed from
Berhampur
Brahmapur (; also known as Berhampur) is a city on the eastern coastline of Ganjam district of the Indian state of Odisha. Bramhapur is most famous for its street food, silk sarees or pato sarees, temples and many historical places. Bramhapur al ...
of Odisha in the North East,
Trivandrum
Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populatio ...
of Kerala in the South West,
Bangalore
Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...
and
Mangalore
Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka–Ke ...
of Karnataka in the West and
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India ...
of Andhra Pradesh in the North.
Between 1926 and 1939, the university published the comprehensive ''
Tamil Lexicon'' dictionary, which is the first among the dictionaries published in any Indian language.
Coat of arms
The description of the
coat of arms
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of the university, designed in 1857, is:
"Argent ''(silver or white)'' on a Mount issuant from the basement a Tiger passant proper ''(walking and coloured naturally)'', on a Chief Sable ''(black across the top)'', a Pale Or ''(a gold or yellow vertical strip down the centre 1/3 of the top or chief)'', thereon, between two Elephants heads couped of the field, a lotus flower leaved and slipped of the third, together with this motto ''Doctrina Vim Promovet Insitam''".
The coat of arms colours are: the base is light green, the tiger is yellow on a white background, the elephant is grey on a black background, the lotus is a white flower with olive green leaves, on a gold background. The motto scroll is edged red, with black lettering. The English translation of the motto of the University of Madras is: "Learning promotes natural talent."
Campus
The university has six campuses:
Chepauk
Chepauk is a locality in Chennai, India. The name Chepauk is popularly used to refer to the M. A. Chidambaram International Cricket Stadium, also known as the Chepauk Stadium. It is also home to the Chepauk Palace, built in the Indo-Saracenic ...
,
Marina,
Guindy
Guindy is one of the most important neighborhoods of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and is nicknamed as ''The Gateway to Chennai''. The Kathipara junction where Anna Salai, Mount-Poonamallee Road, Inner Ring Road, 100 Feet Road or Jawaharlal Nehru Ro ...
,
Taramani
Tharamani is an area in the south Indian city of Chennai. It is known for the presence of the city's first IT parks and numerous government educational and research institutions. It is located adjacent to the posh residential area of Adyar an ...
,
Chetpet and
Maduravoyal
Maduravoyal is a residential neighbourhood located in the west of Chennai, India. As of 2011, the town had a population of 86,195.
Maduravoyal also has a name as "ettam kal" (8th mile), so it could be famous in British Period too, it is exac ...
. The Chepauk campus of the university houses the administrative buildings, the historic
Senate House, central library, clock tower, centenary auditorium, and several departments under arts, humanities and social science streams. The schools of oriental and Indian are located at the Marina campus. The Guindy campus incorporates the natural sciences departments while the campus at Taramani houses the school of basic medical sciences. The sports union and the botanical garden are based on Chetpet and Maduravoyal campuses respectively. The Department of Mathematics of the university is operated as the
Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics located close to the Chepauk campus. The university has two
constituent college
A collegiate university is a university in which functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges. Historically, the first collegiate university was the University of Paris and its first college was the C ...
, in
Nemmeli
Nemmeli is an agricultural village in Madukkur Panchayat Union, Pattukkottai taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India, also known as 28.Nemmeli. Nemmeli village is division of Musugundha Nadu in Chola nadu. It comes under Pattukottai legi ...
and
Thiruvottiyur, offerings courses in arts and science.
Since 1981, the university has also developed an Institute of Distance Education, offering various academic and professional programmes approved by
University Grants Commission under the choice-based credit system (CBCS) pattern.
Senate House
The University of Madras has a historical monument –
Senate House – which is one of the landmarks of the city of Chennai.
[ Srinivasachari, p 341] The Senate House, the university's first building, inaugurated in the year 1879, is a masterpiece of
Robert Fellowes Chisholm, an architect of the 19th century, who blended the Indo-Saracenic style with Byzantine and European architectural features.
[ Srinivasachari, Introduction, p xxxi] The university renovated the Senate House in 2006.
Organisation and administration
Governance
The organisational structure of Madras University consists of the Senate, the Syndicate, the Academic Council, the faculties, the Finance Committee, and the boards of studies. The
governor of Tamil Nadu is the chancellor of the university. The vice-chancellor is the executive head of the university. The registrar of the university, who is the secretary of the Syndicate, is the custodian of all the records and chief administrator of the university. The examinations of the university is managed by Office of the Controller of Examinations.
Schools and departments
University of Madras is organized into eighteen main schools, each of which comprises multiple departments and centres as below:
Affiliated colleges and research institutions
The university currently has 121 affiliated colleges, with 3 approved institutions, 5 institutions for diploma and certificate courses, 15 stand alone institutions for professional education, and 53 approved research Institutions as of 2019.
Notable colleges
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Loyola College
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Presidency College
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Madras Christian College
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Stella Maris College
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Women's Christian College
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Ethiraj College
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Queen Mary's College
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The New College
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Madras School of Social Work
Madras School of Social Work (MSSW) is an autonomous college located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1952. It is affiliated to the University of Madras and offers various under-graduate and graduate courses in social sciences
...
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Madras Sanskrit College
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AM Jain College
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Guru Nanak College
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Vaishnav College
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Pachaiyappa's College
Pachaiyappa's College is one of the oldest educational institutions in Chennai, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In addition, it is the first sole Indian college in Madras Presidency.
History
Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai is the resul ...
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SHASUN College
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Vaishnav College for Women
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Vivekananda College
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JBAS College for Women
Research institutions
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Adyar Cancer Institute
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Central Leather Research Institute
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Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture
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Defence Services Staff College
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International Institute of Tamil Studies
The International Institute of Tamil Studies (IITS) is a linguistic research institution based in Chennai, India. It was established with a view to promoting the cause of Tamil language.
History
The International Institute of Tamil Studies was ...
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Institute for Financial Management and Research
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King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research
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Loyola Institute of Business Administration
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Madras Institute of Development Studies
The Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) is a research institute based in Chennai. It is a joint undertaking of the Governments of India and Tamil Nadu for conducting research on development problems in Tamil Nadu and the rest of Ind ...
*
Madras School of Economics
Madras School of Economics is an institution of higher education in economics, located in Chennai, India. Madras School of Economics was founded in 1993 as a post-graduate institution for teaching and research in economics.
MSE offers ...
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Madras Diabetes Research Foundation
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MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
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National Defence College
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National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis
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Zoological Survey of India
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National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research
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National Institute of Epidemiology
Academics
Rankings and reputation
Internationally, Madras University is ranked 541-550 overall and 48th global research institution in the
QS World University Rankings
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for the year 2023. In India, the
National Institutional Ranking Framework
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ranked it 22nd among universities in 2020.
The Week-Hansa Research best university survey of 2019 ranked it 11th in the multi-disciplinary university category and it was ranked 20th in the
Outlook-ICARE university ranking of 2020.
Madras University Library System
The library system of the university consists of four central libraries located at its Chepauk, Marina, Guindy and Taramani campus. Besides, many of the departments and centres have their own library collections. The main university library located at Chepauk was started in 1907 in the
Connemara Public Library
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The Connemara Public Library at Egmore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the four National Depository Libraries which receive a copy of all books, newspapers and periodicals published in India. Established in 1896, the library is a re ...
, later shifted to the existing building in 1936.
S. R. Ranganathan (a mathematician) was appointed as the first librarian of the university, whose contribution in the development of the field of
library sciences is noteworthy. The library collection includes textbooks, reference books, journals, theses, archives of government gazettes, newsprints, magazines, photographs, rare manuscripts, with a total collection of approximately 1 million volumes, which is among the largest collection of a university library in India. The library system also maintains a database of e-books, digital multimedia resources and subscribed to over four thousand e-journals under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. The
Government of Tamil Nadu
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oriental manuscripts library and research centre is located within the main library building at Chepauk. The library is considered as the treasure house for ancient Indian knowledge. Comprises over 25,373 reference books and 72,714 Sanskrit and Tamil manuscripts written on palm leaf, copper plates, tree barks, leather etc. on subjects, like mathematics, astronomy, ayurveda, architecture, fine arts, grammar and literature. The Library of the
Indian Mathematical Society
Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) is the oldest organization in India devoted to the promotion of study and research in mathematics. The Society was founded in April 1907 by V. Ramaswami Aiyar with its headquarters at Pune. The Society started ...
, started in 1907 in Pune, is now housed in the campus of the
Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.
Research
In 2007, the university was given a special grant of by the
Ministry of Human Resource Development to establish a nanotechnology research centre in commemoration of its
sesqui-centenary (150th year) celebration. In 2011,
University Grants Commission (UGC) selected the university for its third phase of ''University with Potential for Excellence (UPE)'' scheme, under which were sanctioned for a period of five years.
Earlier, the university was selected for the inaugural phase of the scheme in 2001-02 along with
JNU,
Hyderabad University,
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1905 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into Jadavpur University in 1955. In 2022, it was ranked fourth am ...
and
Pune University
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...
. The ''National Centre for Ultrafast Process (NCUFP)'' of the university has mobilized research grants to the tune through several funded projects including the
DST
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typicall ...
,
CSIR,
DRDO
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) (IAST: ''Raksā Anūsandhān Evam Vikās Sangaṭhan'') is the premier agency under the Department of Defence Research and Development in Ministry of Defence of the Government of India, ...
and
UGC.
The Department of Crystallography and Biophysics was upgraded as a ''Centre of Advanced Study (CAS)'' in 2007 and a grant of was given for modernising research laboratories. The ''School of Life Sciences'' of the university received a grant of by the
Department of Biotechnology, under BUILDER (Boost to University of Interdisciplinary Life Science Departments for Education and Research) for strengthening teaching and research programmes during 2014–2019.
A study performed by the
NISTADS on the research performance of universities in India during 1998–2008 ranked Madras University at No. 5 based on publication for that period.
In addition,
UGC has identified the Department of Geology and Department of Zoology as the ''Centres of Excellence'' and has allotted each for their development.
In 2019,
Ministry of Human Resource Development of Government of India granted to the university for upgrading its research capabilities under
Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme.
Notable alumni
The University of Madras has a strong alumni network, with its alumni taking over many prestigious positions across the world. Some of the prominent alumni include Nobel laureates
C. V. Raman and
S. Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (; ) (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who spent his professional life in the United States. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler for "... ...
, mathematicians
Srinivasa Ramanujan K. S. Chandrasekharan, and
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, leading scientists,
Raja Ramanna
Raja Ramanna (28 January 1925 – 24 September 2004) was an Indian physicist who is best known for his role in India's nuclear program during its early stages.
Having joined the nuclear program in 1964, Ramanna worked under Homi Jeha ...
,
Rajagopala Chidambaram,
M. Visvesvaraya,
E. C. George Sudarshan,
G. N. Ramachandran,
V. S. Ramachandran and
Alladi Ramakrishnan
Alladi Ramakrishnan (9 August 1923 – 7 June 2008) was an Indian physicist and the founder of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Matscience) in Chennai. He made contributions to stochastic process, particle physics, algebra of matrices, ...
Former presidents
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975), natively Radhakrishnayya, was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He served as the 2nd President of India from 1962 to 1967. He also 1st Vice President of India from 1952 ...
,
V. V. Giri,
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (; 19 May 1913 – 1 June 1996) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence ...
,
R. Venkataraman and
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, politicians
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari,
C Subramaniam,
CN Annadurai, and
V. K. Krishna Menon, civil servants
T. N. Seshan,
Benegal Rama Rau
Sir Benegal Rama Rau CIE, ICS (1 July 1889 – 13 December 1969) was the fourth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 July 1949 to 14 January 1957.
Early life and family
He was born in a Konkani-speaking Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin fa ...
,
Y. Venugopal Reddy
Yaga Venugopal Reddy (born 17 August 1941) is an Indian economist and a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1964 batch belonging to Andhra Pradesh cadre. Reddy served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India's ...
and
C. Sylendra Babu
Rhodes scholars
Eric Prabhakar
Eric Prabhakar (23 February 1925 – 10 September 2011) was an Indian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres event at the 1948 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals. He was also a Rhodes Scholar and he subsequently worked for ...
and
Tanjore R. Anantharaman, pioneers
Verghese Kurien,
Raj Reddy and
M. S. Swaminathan
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, plant geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan is a global leader of the green revolution. He has been called the main archi ...
, economist
K. N. Raj
Kakkadan Nandanath Rajan (13 May 1924 – 10 February 2010) was an Indian economist. He is popularly known as K. N. Raj. He played an important role in India's planned development, drafting sections of India's first Five Year Plan, specifically ...
and
C. Rangarajan, business persons
Indra Nooyi,
Ram Shriram and
Prathap C. Reddy, artists and film personality
M.G. Ramachandran,
K. C. S. Paniker,
Gemini Ganesan
Ramasamy Ganesan (17 November 1920 – 22 March 2005), better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred to as the ''Kaadhal Mannan'' (King of Romance) for his romantic roles ...
,
Mani Ratnam
Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and few Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films. Ratnam has won six ...
and
Mahesh Babu
Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu (born 9 August 1975) is an Indian actor, producer, media personality, and philanthropist who works mainly in Telugu cinema. He has appeared in more than 25 films, and won several accolades including, eight Nandi Awar ...
, sports stars
Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating o ...
,
Vijay Amritraj
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,
Ramanathan Krishnan
Ramanathan Krishnan (born 11 April 1937)
is a retired tennis player from India who was among the world's leading players in the 1950s and 1960s. He was twice a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1961, reaching as high as World No. 3 in Potte ...
and
Srinivas 'Venkat' among others.
File:Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari.jpg, Last governor-general of India, C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji'', the Scholar Emeritus''), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activis ...
File:Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg, 2nd president of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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File:VV Giri 1974 stamp of India (cropped).jpg, 4th president of India, V.V. Giri
File:Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.jpg, 6th president of India, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
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File:President Shri R Venkataraman (narendramodiofficial Flickr).jpg, 8th president of India, R Venkataraman
File:A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in 2008.jpg, 11th president of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
File:General K. M. Cariappa.jpg, 1st Indian commander-in-chief of the Indian Army, Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa
File:Justice M. Patanjali Sastri.jpg, 2nd chief justice of India, M. Patanjali Sastri
File:Vishveshvarayya in his 30's.jpg, 19th Diwan of Mysore and Civil Engineer, Sir. M. Visvesvaraya
File:Sir CV Raman.JPG, Physics Nobel laureate, Sir C. V. Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering.
Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when ...
File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.gif, Physics Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
File:Srinivasa Ramanujan - OPC - 1.jpg, Mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan
File:Srinivasa Varadhan Heidelberg.JPG, Mathematician, Abel Prize Winner, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
File:ECG_Sudarshan.jpg, Theoretical Physicist, E. C. George Sudarshan
File:Rajagopala Chidambaram.jpg, Nuclear Physicist, Rajagopala Chidambaram
File:Photo of Prof Raj Reddy taken in Hyderabad.jpg, Computer scientist, Turing Awardee, Raj Reddy
File:Vilayanur S Ramachandran 2011 Shankbone.JPG, Cognitive neuroscientist, V. S. Ramachandran
File:IndraNooyiDavos2010ver2.jpg, PepsiCo Chairperson, Indra Nooyi
File:Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan - Kolkata 2013-01-07 2674.JPG, Father of Green revolution, M. S. Swaminathan
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File:Palaniappan Chidambaram - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011.jpg, Former Union Minister of Finance
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, P. Chidambaram
File:VishyAnand09.jpg, Chess grandmaster, Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating o ...
See also
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Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics
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