SASTRA University (also known as Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy University) is a deemed university established under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956. SASTRA University is a university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It started in 1984 in the form of Shanmugha College of Engineering, since renamed as the Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy.
It is one of the premium institutions in India and offers a wide range of courses, undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses being the primary ones. It has grown as a University since its inception and has established strong Scientific and Technological expansion over the years.
It started in 1984 in the form of Shanmugha College of Engineering, since renamed as the Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy. It offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in Engineering, Science, Education, Management and Arts, including some Doctoral programmes. It is the first to get Deemed University status in Tamil Nadu.
A sprawling campus housing a built up area of over 1.5 million square feet and a vibrant population of over 8,000 students and over 600 teaching faculty have made SASTRA a landmark in the educational map of India.
The institute has 8 boys' hostels and 4 girls' hostels providing so so accommodation to over 5000 boys and 3000 girls. A new hostel has been constructed for accommodating more on the campus. Also,the wi-fi range is being increased to the whole campus. The wi-fi facility has been extended to cover 7-Cube wadio (wireless radio).The streaming of live matches is quite a relief to the sport fans. The campus has a separate internet center and multimedia area and also has mini-departmental stores inside every hostel. There are also facilities for sports and body building. The academy possesses a HP RP8400 super computer for advanced computing facilities, and plans to establish a NANO park in its campus with an investment of 20 crores.
How to reach SASTRA
The airport at Tiruchirapalli (Trichi) is nearest to SASTRA. It is connected from chennai by Indian Airlines and Air Deccan. It is also connected to Bangalore by Kingfisher airlines.
People coming from other places can reach Bangalore / Chennai and later proceed to SASTRA as per directions given above.
Both the towns (Tiruchirapalli & Thanjavur) are well connected by road, rail and air with other parts of the country.
Schools and departments:
Schools in SASTRA university are:
* School of Chemical & Biotechnology
* School of Civil Engineering
* School of Computing
* School of Education
* School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
* School of Humanities & Sciences
* School of Management
* School of Mechanical Engineering
* School of LAW
* Centre for Advanced Research in Indian System of Medicine [CARISM]
* Centre for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials [CeNTAB]
* Directorate of Distance Education – SASTRA
Courses:
* B.Tech
* M.Tech
* M.B.A
* M.C.A
* Ph.D.
Admission Process :
SASTRA University has strict regulations for admission to various undergraduate and postgraduate programs. All admissions are purely based on merit. For B. Tech. programmes 70% of the total seats are filled by SASTRA based on the qualifying higher secondary examination marks following the process of normalization. To bring all candidates from different examining authorities or boards in the same scale of comparison and to create a list in the order of merit, higher secondary examination marks are normalized. The first rank student in each board is considered to have obtained 100% mark and aggregate marks of all other students of the board are normalized with reference to that of the first ranked student. For example, if the first rank is 97% and an applicant's aggregate is 90% then the applicant's normalized percentage is 92.78 (90/97 x 100). A merit list is drawn based on the normalized percentage for making admissions. Admissions for students from the vocational stream to the respective B. Tech. programme are done from within the same category of applicants.
The remaining 30% of the seats are filled by MHRD based on the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) ranks as SASTRA has volunteered to offer seats to AIEEE qualified candidates. Applications are called for in leading dailies and through SASTRA website for the 70% of the seats filled by SASTRA counseling and the publicity for the remaining 30% of the seats is provided by CBSE.
For all PG programmes the admissions are made on the basis of the scores in the qualifying UG / PG degree programme. GATE qualified students are given preference. For all other UG arts & science programmes, admissions are based on the qualifying examination marks.
Contact Us:
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy
Tirumalaisamudram
Thanjavur - 613402, Tamil Nadu
Tel : 04362 264101 - 108, 304000 - 010
Fax : 4362 - 264120
Vice Chancellor : Tel : 04362 264101, 304101
Registrar : Tel : 04362 264102, 304106
E-mail (alt) : admissions@sastra.edu
Website : www.sastra.edu
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