Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) is a

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located in

Madurai Madurai ( , also , ) is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Madurai District. As of the 2011 census, it was the third largest Urban agglomeration in ...

city, in southern

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, established in 1966. MKU is one of the 15 universities in India with the University with Potential for Excellence status, which was awarded by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in India. In 2021, the university has been awarded an 'A++' grade from the

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(NAAC) in its 4th cycle.

History

The university was established in 1966 as Madurai University. In 1978, the name was changed to Madurai Kamaraj University to honour

K. Kamaraj Kumaraswami Kamaraj (15 July 1903 – 2 October 1975, hinduonnet.com. 15–28 September 2001), popularly known as Kamarajar was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Madras State (Tamil Nadu) ...

, former

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Madras State Madras State was a state of India during the mid-20th century. At the time of its formation in 1950, it included the whole of present-day Tamil Nadu (except Kanyakumari district), Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema, the Malabar region of North and c ...

Vice chancellors

Academics

There are 121 colleges and institutions under MKU which include 16 aided colleges, 24 autonomous colleges (including both government and self financed), 4 constituent colleges, 1 MKU college, 5 MKU evening colleges, 57 self financed colleges and 14 approved institutions. Currently, the university consists of 77 renowned Departments and 20 renowned Schools as a whole.

Rankings

The

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(NIRF) ranked Madurai Kamaraj University 83rd overall in India and 63rd among universities in 2021.

Notable alumni, faculties and associated people

T. P. Meenakshisundaram Thenpattinam Ponnuswamy Meenakshisundaram (1901–1980), popularly known as Te Po Meenkshisunadaranar, was an Indian scholar, writer of Tamil and English literature and the founder vice chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University. Life Born on 8 J ...

, 1st Honorable Vice-Chancellor of MKU and

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...

awardee * Mu. Varadarajan, 2nd Honorable Vice-Chancellor of MKU and recipient of

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for

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literature *

V. C. Kulandaiswamy V C Kulandaiswamy (14 July 1929 – 10 December 2016) was an Indian academic and author. He completed his Bachelor of engineering in Civil at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore. He obtained his Master of Technology degree from IIT Khar ...

, 4th Honorable Vice-Chancellor of MKU and

awardee *

Arumugam Manthiram Arumugam Manthiram (; born March 15, 1951) is an American materials scientist and engineer, best known for his identification of the polyanion class of lithium ion battery cathodes, understanding of how chemical instability limits the capacity of ...

, fellow of

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, delivered the 2019

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in Chemistry on behalf of Chemistry

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John B. Goodenough. *

A. S. Gnanasambandan A. S. Gnanasambanthan (10 November 1916 – 27 August 2002), was a Tamil language, Tamil writer, scholar and literary critic from Tamil Nadu, India. He is also known by his Tamil initials as Aa. Sa. Gna. Biography Gnanasambanthan was born in Ara ...

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and literary critic *

G. Balasubramanian G. Balasubramanian served as the Vice-Chancellor of Tamil University, Thanjavur, in Tamil Nadu, India, from 4 October 2018 to 3 October 2021. Birth He was born on 15 April 1959 at Kaduvakkudi village in Mannargudi taluk in Thiruvarur district ...

, former Vice Chancellor of

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, Thanjavur, in Tamil Nadu, India (4 October 2018 – 3 October 2021) *

G. S. Venkataraman Gopalasamudram Sitaraman Venkataraman (1930–1998) was an Indian botanist, academic and the director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He was also a director of the ''DBT Centre for Blue-Green Algae'' at Madurai K ...

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

awardee *

Charle Velmurugan Thangasamy Manohar (born 6 March 1960), professionally credited as Charle, is an Indian actor who works in Tamil cinema. He has acted in more than 800 Tamil films as a comedian and supporting actor. He was named after the English co ...

, Indian actor *

AR Chelliah Anantha Raj Rayappan Chelliah is an Indian religious leader: since 2019 he has been Bishop of Kanyakumari Diocese. Chelliah was born on the 7 July 1958. He was educated at Madurai Kamaraj University. Chelliah was ordained in 1994. He served a ...

, Indian religious leader *

Dharmakkan Dhanaraj Dharmakkan Dhanaraj (18 December 1950– 16 October 2017) was an Indian Old Testament Scholar who taught at the Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore, a Seminary established in 1965 and affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate o ...

, Indian Old Testament Scholar * Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam, the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...

laureate (for Biological Sciences) *

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, 40th Chief Justice of India * Rajan Sankaranarayanan, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences) and

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winner *

Rajiah Simon Rajiah Simon, is a Professor of Physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India. Rajiah Simon received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 1993 for pioneering work in Quantum optics. Simon and collab ...

, the

laureate (for Physical Sciences) * Rishikesh Narayanan, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences) *

Ramamirtha Jayaraman Ramamirtha Jayaraman (10 October 1937 – 14 April 2019) was an Indian geneticist, known for his studies on bacteria, especially on Escherichia coli. His researches on the control of transcription of bacteria are known to have evidenced the ''p ...

, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences) * Tho. Paramasivan,

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and

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Mohan Raghavan Mohan Raghavan (22 January 1964 – 25 October 2011) was a Malayalam film director. He studied at the School of Drama, Thrissur, and in Theatre Arts at Madurai Kamaraj University. Biography Raghavan is from Annamanada, Thrissur district. H ...

, Malayalam film director * Mushi Santappa, the

laureate (for Chemical Sciences) *

Nirmal Selvamony Nirmal Selvamony (born 20 November 1953) is an Indian Tamil academician and scholar with specialization in the field of ecocriticism. When he retired from Central University of Tamil Nadu in April 2018, he was Professor and Head of the Depart ...

, Indian scholar and academician * S. Kameswaran, renowned ENT surgeon and

awardee *

H. Raja Hariharan Raja Sharma also known as H. Raja is an Indian politician. He started his political-social life as an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) promoter. He was a MLA representing the Karaikudi constituency in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Asse ...

, eminent politician * Gunasekaran Paramasamy, eminent scientist *

Ram Rajasekharan Ram Rajasekharan (born 25 December 1960) is an Indian plant biologist, food technologist and a former director of the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Rese ...

, N-BIOS awardee *

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, eminent politician * R. Sankararamakrishnan, N-BIOS awardee *

Syed Zahoor Qasim Sayed Zahoor Qasim (31 December 1926 – 20 October 2015) was an Indian marine biologist. Qasim helped lead India's exploration to Antarctica and guided the other seven expeditions from 1981 to 1988. He was a Member of the Planning Commission of ...

awardee *

Kaustuv Sanyal Kaustuv Sanyal (born 1969) is an Indian molecular biologist, mycologist and a professor at the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). He is known for his molecular and genetic ...

, N-BIOS awardee *

K. S. Krishnan Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, (4 December 1898 – 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. Early life K ...

awardee,

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and the

laureate (for Physical Sciences) * M. K. Chandrashekaran, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences) * Sonajharia Minz, eminent Adivasi activist and current Vice Chancellor of

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, Indian Tamil poet, lyricist, orator, politician and writer * Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences) * Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan,

awardee *

Ganapathy Baskaran Ganapathy Baskaran is an Indian theoretical physicist, known for his work on condensed matter physics and strongly correlated quantum materials. Baskaran is an Emeritus Professor of physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai ...

, the

laureate (for Physical Sciences) *

Gopi Shankar Madurai Gopi Shankar Madurai, born 13 April 1991, is an Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist. Shankar was one of the youngest, and the first openly intersex and genderqueer statutory authority and one of the candidates to contest in 201 ...

, Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist *

Govindappa Venkataswamy Govindappa Venkataswamy (1 October 1918 – 7 July 2006), popularly known as Dr V., was an Indian ophthalmologist who dedicated his life to eliminate needless blindness. He was the founder and former chairman of Aravind Eye Hospitals. He i ...

awardee and founder of

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, Carnatic music vocalist *

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, Indian actor and

awardee *

Kailasavadivoo Sivan Kailasavadivoo Sivan (born 14 April 1957) is an Indian space scientist who served as the Secretary of the Department of Space and chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Space Commission. He has previously served as the Director o ...

, eminent Indian space scientist and current Secretary (Space) and ''ex-officio'' chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (

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) and Space Commission * Kumaravel Somasundaram, N-BIOS awardee * Nazarene Soosai, Roman Catholic Bishop * A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Indian historian *

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awardee and Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist * S. Viyalendiran, Sri Lankan-Tamil politician * M. Thiurumalai, Tamil scholar, writer and professor * Sendurai Mani, Indian-American oncologist *

Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy is the Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2018, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Early life and education He received a ...

, Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the

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and fellow of the

. * K.K. Pillay, eminent Indian historian, headed the Department of History in

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and the first President in the premises of the School of Historical Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University * S. Ramachandran,

awardee * Ch. Mohan Rao, the

laureate (for Medical Sciences), Executive Committee member for the Centre of Excellence of the Bioinformatics Centre (founded by Prof. Kappamuthu Dharmalingam), Madurai Kamaraj University, 2004 * P.N. Rangarajan, the

laureate (for Medical Sciences) and N-BIOS awardee, Coconvenor of the lecture workshop on ''Recent Advances in Biotechnology of Health and Disease'' (BHD-2011) organized by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2011 *

Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan Sathees C. Raghavan is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is from Kannur, Kerala. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science ...

, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences), Convenor of the lecture workshop on ''Recent Advances in Biotechnology of Health and Disease'' (BHD-2011) organized by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2011 * Erwin Bünning, eminent German chronobiologist, invited by M. K. Chandrashekaran to

in 1978, to conduct the Biological Oscillation workshop in Madurai Kamaraj University *

Dorairajan Balasubramanian Dorairajan Balasubramanian, popularly known as Professor Balu, is an Indian biophysical chemist and ocular biochemist. He is a former President of Indian Academy of Sciences and a director of research at the Prof. Brien Holden Eye Research Centr ...

, the

laureate (for Chemical Sciences),

laureate (for Biological Sciences),

awardee and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University * Rakesh Bhatnagar, member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University *

Tapas Kumar Kundu Tapas Kumar Kundu (born 1962) is an Indian molecular biologist, academician and at present the Director of Central Drug Research Institute, a prestigious research institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Lucknow. He is the ...

, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences), N-BIOS awardee and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University * Siddhartha Roy, the

laureate (for Biological Sciences) and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University *

Rakesh Mishra Rakesh Kumar Mishra is an Indian scientist specializing in genomics and epigenetics. Mishra retired as the 6th director of CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad, India, on the April 30th, 2021. He is currently the ...

, member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University * P. Namperumalsamy,

awardee and the Co-investigator on a research Project “Clinical and Laboratory Studies on Eales Disease” in collaboration with National Eye Institute,

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and

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and Madurai Kamaraj University.

International collaborations

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

: Discovery of first Indians in 2008 *

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: Genomics research and studies *

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: Collaborative research and faculty-student exchange *

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

: Ancient DNA research *

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

: Student exchange and research *

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and

Institute for Energy Technology Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) was established in 1948 as the Institute for Nuclear Energy (IFA). The name was changed in 1980. Its main office is at Kjeller, Norway, and slightly under half of the institute’s activities are based in Ha ...

: Indo-Norwegian International Online Conference on “Functional materials for energy, environment And biomedical applications" (FARAON 2022) *Algoma Algal Biotechnology,

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: From 2017 *

Eastern University, Sri Lanka The Eastern University Sri Lanka (abbreviated as EUSL) is a public university in Vantharumoolai, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. It was established on 1 October 1986. The university was preceded by the Batticaloa University College established ...

: From 2017 *

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: From 2018 *

South Dakota School of Mines The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines, SD Mines, or SDSM&T) is a public university in Rapid City, South Dakota. It is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents and was founded in 1885. South Dakota Mines offers ba ...

: Staff exchange and collaboration, joint research activities and publications, student exchange * Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Research collaboration *

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: Research collaboration *

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: Research collaboration * University of Veterinary Medicine,Hannover: Research collaboration * Loyola University: Research collaboration *

Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research International Max Planck Research School for Heart and Lung Research, also known as IMPRS for Heart and Lung Research, is a three-year graduate program offering studies in the field of heart, blood vessel and lung biology. Research areas cover d ...

: Research collaboration *Graduate Medical School,

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Notable alumni, faculties and associated people

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