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Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education

Coordinates: 9°34′27″N 77°40′34″E / 9.5743°N 77.6761°E / 9.5743; 77.6761
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Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education
Former names
Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering (AKCE) (1984-2006)
TypeResearch institution
Established1984
ChairmanMr. Kalasalingam
ChancellorK. Sridharan
Vice-presidentS. Shasi Anand, S. Arjun Kalasalingam
Vice-ChancellorNagaraj R
Location
Krishnankoil
,
Tamil Nadu
,
India

9°34′27″N 77°40′34″E / 9.5743°N 77.6761°E / 9.5743; 77.6761
CampusSuburban, 320 acres (130 ha)
ColorsBlue
AffiliationsUGC,[1] NAAC, AICTE, NBA
Websitekalasalingam.ac.in

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education (KARE), 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.

History

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education was established in 1984 by the Kalasalingam Anandam Ammal Charities.[2] "Kalvivallal" Thiru T. Kalasalingam, veteran freedom fighter, was the founder chairman.[citation needed] It was granted deemed to be university status in 2006.[2] In November 2017, following a directive by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to drop the "University" from the name[3]

Location

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education is situated at Krishnankoil, 65 km (40 mi) south of Madurai and 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Srivilliputhur, in Madurai-Shenkottah National Highway (NH208). 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 (B.Tech.) and Master of Technology (M.TECH.) degrees in the following fields:

There is different approaches of getting admitted into undergraduate, postgraduate and research program of Kalasalingam university.[4]

Central and departmental libraries

  • Extensive collection of academic volumes and titles
  • Popular periodicals
  • National and international journals
  • Supplementary digital resources (CD-ROMs and audio cassette equivalent)

Campus

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 (from HP and HCL), 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 (semester 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 (CBCS), which is followed by leading universities around the world including Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs).

Rankings

College rankings

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education was ranked 61 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2019.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Deemed University Tamil Nadu". University Grants Commission (India). Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education – About us". kalasalingam.ac.in. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Don't use 'university' in institute names, UGC directs deemed-to-be varsities". The Indian Express. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education Admission". CollegeSearch.in.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_NIRF_E_2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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