10/10/2014 A Mini City - The New Indian Express E-paper GO Click here for Mobile Site Friday, October 10, 2014 02:06 PM Home Top News Nation World States Cities Business Columns Cricket Sport Entertainment Magazine The Sunday Standard Auto Simply Express Ask Prabhu Indulge Health Food Tech Education Lifestyle Editorial Photos Videos Coupons Home > Education > Edex A Mini City Editor's Picks Most Read Most Emailed By Jayanthi Pawar - COIMBATORE Published: 02nd December 2013 06:00 AM Over Half the Children in India Are Victims of Last Updated: 01st December 2013 04:49 PM Physical and Sexual Abuse, Say Experts Amazon Steps Into Physical World With Its First Real Like 2 2 Email 0 Shop Sitting pretty at the foothills of Bouluvanpatty ranges of Western Ghats in Ettimadai is the 430-acre Petronet, KSRTC Hold Talks to Use LNG as Fuel in campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, headquarters of Amrita University, founded by Mata Buses Amritanandamayi, a spiritual guru. Established in 1994, the college started with the School of 36 Government, Aided Schools in Karnataka Without Engineering. The college was first affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. In 2003, it was Toilets rechristened as Amrita University and became a deemed-to-be university. With state-of–the-art facilities, students of Amrita live a blessed life despite being away from their homes. The cool Forest Rights Rejection in LWE-affected Areas Reviewed climate, courtesy the hills, prolific presence of flora and fauna plus an intelligent set of students grace the highly reputed institution, which is also rated ‘A’ by NAAC. The institute, which started with 120 students and 13 faculty members, has around 3,500 students and 600 faculty and staff members. The college is located just three km from the Ettimadai railway Today's Pick station. “In an endless desert of education, Amrita is the oasis,” claims MP Chandrasekaran, dean Nation of Amrita School of Engineering. Twist in the Tale: Sunanda Died of Courses offered Poison, Say Doctors Students have to clear an entrance test to become part of Amrita institutions. Around 40,000 More students attend the test for three campuses out of which the top 1,200 students are admitted. The Nation college offers eight specialisations in BTech like aerospace, chemical, civil, computer science, electrical and electronic communication, electrical and communication engineering, electronic and I Won’t Like it if US instrumental engineering, mechancial and 12 PG courses. The School of Business, Departments of Prez Talks to Indian PM in Marathi: Raj Social Work and Communication, research centers including CEN, CES and Cyber Security are located on this campus. The college has collaborated with 19 universities in US like Univeristy of More California, Davis (UCDAVIS), University of California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan and 15 Tamil universities in Europe such as Sofia University, Bulgaria, and Malardalin University, Sweden. In Prequel to Diwali, 20 They have a student exchange programme, where students get a chance to do their final semester Movies Hit Screens Today in a college abroad. “The college permits student exchange programmes and funds either the travel expense or the entire trip for six months.,” says Chandrasekaran. “Amrita is a safe place for girls More and is a green campus. The foreign exchange programme ensures that students have good Tamil Nadu exposure to the outside world. The studio for Mass Communication department is very useful for us, Honour Killing Cases on as we get to practice what we learn which is more fun,” says Gaurango Banaerji, second year the Rise in Tamil Nadu, student, MA mass communication. Says VCK Infrastructure More This sprawling campus has around 1 lakh trees of 220 different species, a separate section for Sport medicinal plants and a greenhouse where seedlings are nurtured. The university has a Centre for Ronaldo 'Will Retire at Environmental Studies which supervise the planting of trees. The University lays a lot of emphasis Real' on eco-friendly and conservationist practices. It is also equipped with three water treatment plants in which waste water from hostels and college is treated and used for irrigation. They have a More centralised kitchen with 100 employees working in shifts. Tweets by @NewIndianXpress Life on campus States The college accounts for a mini city with all the facilities provided for students within the campus. Double Blow to “Amrita provides holistic education, which provides an education for a life and not just for a living. Telangana TDP as 4 It’s not just about finishing college, but also imbibing the values taught here,” says Somali MLAs Defect to TRS Chowdhury, a faculty from the college. The college has a Central Library database system that consists of more than 45,500 books, 300 journals, 4,000 Project reports, 5,300 back-volumes, 50 Inter Exams Likely to magazines, 3,800 project reports, and 4,000 CD/DVD resources. The library also has access to the digital library of the State University of New York at Buffalo. The college has more than 13 be Postponed computing labs and has around 2,500 computers all with internet facilities. The aerospace department students are provided with a helicopter and fighter plane that was procured from the defence department. They are in working condition and are used for lab purpose. http://www.newindianexpress.com/education/edex/A-Mini-City/2013/12/02/article1919945.ece 1/3 10/10/2014 A Mini City - The New Indian Express The campus also provides digital multi-camera television news and interview studio for mass Siddu’s Buddy communication students to learn practically. The college conducts inter-campus tournaments, Ibrahim Praising CICAA (Coimbatore Inter Collegiate Athletic Association), and TIUS (Tamilnadu Inter University Modi, Likely to Sports). Apart from this an annual sports day, and sports matches —intra and inter department Switch to BJP levels — are conducted. The college also has a swimming pool of 50m X 25m in size with different timings for girls and boys. They also have different gyms for boys and girls. There is also a state-of 9 Accused Get Life art machinery that can purify 2.4 million litres of water within six hours. Dhanalakshmi Bank Term in Shaheed operates a branch with ATM facility in the campus, a general store to cater to the requirements like Bava Murder Case household items, provisions and books. The complex also houses a tailoring shop, Photocopying facility, a men’s hair dressing centre and STD booth. Court Trashes PIL on Extracurricular activities Appointment of OPS Gokulashtami is celebrated by all on campus, where each department presents different walks of lord Krishna’s life, in a float and the best department gets an award. After which a procession takes place. Throughout the day cultural events take place. The Shrishti Club focuses on literature, Ragasudha on singing and Natyasudha on dance. A tech fest, Anoka, is also conducted every year Hud Hud is Getting in which students from various colleges across the country participate. Strong by the Hour Placements The Directorate of Corporate and Industry Relations (CIR) works to bring in companies for placements for students each year. “Placement for the year 2012-2013 in engineering was 99.23 per cent with around 80 companies that visited,” says the dean. Around 105 companies visited the school of business this year and 97 per cent of students were placed. The average package offered to an MBA graduate is around `5 lakh pa and the highest package received so far is `20 lakh pa is from Ericsson, Kuwait. An engineering graduate can expect an average of `3 lakh pa as a starting salary. Some of the companies that visited are Caterpillar, CISCO System, Mindtree, MRF, NOKIA and Microsoft “I graduated with much pride with three offers from three different companies when I was doing my final-year B Tech computer science engineering,” concludes Giridhar V, an alumnus of Amrita, working with Infosys currently. — [email protected] — Disclaimer: The writer is an alumnus of Amrita University 0 Comments The New Indian Express Login Sort by Newest Share ⤤ Favorite ★ Start the discussion… Be the first to comment. ALSO ON THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS WHAT'S THIS? JD-U chief Shares Dais with Mulayam, BBMP Officials Booked For 9-yr-old's Fuels Speculation of Unity Death 1 comment • 2 days ago 1 comment • a day ago Vijay Victo — All forces other than who vadakkus — Book them for culpable voted to BJP in the last general election homicide. The slab was probably sold off will unite to defeat BJP... Now BJP … by the engineer himself. 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