6 ICT developments at the Annamalai University
The Annamalai University is a unitary, teaching and residential university. It was
founded by the munificence of the farsighted and noble hearted philanthropist and
patron of letters the late Hon'ble Dr. Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad, Kt,
LL.D., D.Litt. He started several colleges and ultimately the University in 1929.
Since its inception, it has progressively tried to realize the aims of the noble
Founder Pro-Chancellor. After him, his illustrious son Padma Bhushan Dr. Rajah
Sir Muthiah Chettiar of Chettinad, was the Pro-Chancellor from 1948 to 1984 and
he sedulously nurtured the growth and development of the University. The present
Pro-Chancellor Dr. M.A.M. Ramaswamy, a philanthropist and a patron of sports, is
the distinguished son of Dr.Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar. The University has had the
unique good fortune of having a succession of eminent Vice-Chancellors to guide
its destinies. During the last eighty years the University has grown rapidly and
consolidated its position as a unitary and residential University with Forty nine
Departments of Study and over 2500 members on its teaching staff.
Annamalainagar is already a busy and full-fledged University town east of
Chidambaram, the abode of Lord Nataraja. The University campus, including the
colleges, hostels and playgrounds occupies an area of about thousand acres.