Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education


Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, formerly Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering and Kalasalingam University, is an institute deemed to be university located in Krishnankoil near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. The campus is close to the ancient temple town of Srivilliputhur. The tower of the Srivilliputhur temple is used in the emblem of the Government of Tamil Nadu.

History

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education was established in 1984 by the Kalasalingam Anandam Ammal Charities. "Kalvivallal" Thiru T. Kalasalingam, veteran freedom fighter, was the founder chairman. It was granted deemed to be university status in 2006. In November 2017, following a directive by the University Grants Commission to drop the "University" from the name it was renamed Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education.

Location

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education is situated at Krishnankoil, 65 kilometres south of Madurai and 10 kilometres north of Srivilliputhur, in Madurai-Shenkottah National Highway. The location is at the foothills of the Western Ghats in a rural setting of Virudhunagar District.

Courses offered

The Deemed to be university offers Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology degrees in the following fields:
There is different approaches of getting admitted into undergraduate, postgraduate and research program of Kalasalingam university.

Central and departmental libraries

The Deemed to be University sporting facilities include an athletic track, basketball courts, tennis courts and a football ground. The campus is WiFi enabled and available with a SunFire 4800 enterprise server, a SunFire T1000 server, six IBM Blade servers, four Wipro rack servers, six desktop servers, and nine TB of storage for the computing and storage needs of the faculty and students. The central server farm includes file servers, a database server, a mail server, a web server, a backup server, a proxy server, and an e-learning server.

Examination system

The academic year is divided into two semesters named as Even and Odd. Each semester has three internal exams and one final exam for all theory subjects. Generally, semester exam questions are from Anna University. Laboratory courses usually have two internal exams followed by the final exam. Most of the exams are theoretical, similar to other engineering colleges in India. It follows the Choice Based Credit System, which is followed by leading universities around the world including Indian Institutes of Technologies.

Rankings

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education was ranked 61 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2019.